How Does Centralized, Intelligent ERP Modernize Operations, Improve Service, and Increase Profits?

A. V. Thomas Group is now a diverse organization that offers everything from food and beverages to spices and seasoning, leather goods, biotechnology, and logistics services. As the group has grown, disparate IT systems and manual process and data management were making it difficult to maintain the oversight needed to continually ensure quality, efficiency, and effective cost controls.

Before: Challenges and Opportunities

• Legacy system was already catering to needs of current business basic needs
• Home grown solution does not cater to the reporting needs which is very important for quick business decisions
• The main functions of sales, finance, procurement, stores & distribution should be done through single expandable platform
• Planning & Manufacturing processes are manual
• Tea Procurement and storage is a very complex process, should be simplified and systematized

Why SAP and SAVIC Technologies Private Limited

• Deep understanding of the Fast moving Consumer Product and Trading industries
• Process integration across Planning , Manufacturing , operations, sales, and finance to support intelligent enterprises
• Real-time analytics to deliver insight into inventory and customer needs
• SAP S/4HANA covers most of the requirements as a best practice and inbuilt functionality, like finance, Sales, procurement, storage & production (packing etc.) with seamless integration.
• Provided E2E solution starting from procurement of RM to packing materials, blending, production, stock transfer, manufacturing to sales depot and from primary sales from depot to customers by implementing FI/SD/MM/PP/QM
• Ever expanding business has to be supported by world class, proven next generation software platform. Different integrations with “batch management”, bar code reading, MIS reporting etc. with SAP S/4HANA.

After: Value-Driven Results

• SAP helped us recording the details of employees plucking the tea leaves from the garden to dispatching the finished goods from the factory.
• Efficient and ERP package for decision support at all levels for better management & profitability.
• All sorts of plantation information, scheduling information etc. will be stored in a centralized location, which would help the management to take effective managerial decisions