SAP integration dramatically increases the Sutlej's profit-producing capabilities

The Customer

Sutlej Textiles and Industries Limited, is a part of the K.K Birla group of companies .It operates in diverse fields like Fertilizers, Engineering, Textiles, Sugar, Tea, Coffee, Food Products, Media, Information Technology, Biotechnology and Shipping.

The Business Challenge

With competitive pressures increasing, Sutlej Textiles needed an integrated ERP environment to help it improve efficiency, flexibility and speed of response. The company lacked a single, clear view of processes and performance across its diverse and complex operations, hindering its plans to win market share from competitors. The major business challenges faced by the client were:-

  • Complex business scenarios as there were gaps in the business process integration
  • Single unified enterprise system to drive improved organizational performance
  • Variance in business processes at multiple locations
  • Driving change management
  • Eliminate the non-value adding activities
  • Creating an integrated application and product database

The Solution

Sutlej Textiles selected 'ZenTex', a qualified SAP Business All-in- One partner solution from Zensar Technologies , based on SAP ERP 6.0 software, and running in two logical partitions on IBM System i 550 server under the IBM i operating system.Zensar was chosen for its pre-configured industry ready vertical solutions and highly qualified SAP consultants .My SAP was selected as it is a highly integrated ERP solution among all the modules. The business processes were integrated with SAP FI, CO, SD, MM, PM, PS, HR, PP and QM.Zensar also created a performance simulation training program for efficient use of newly installed enterprise application platform.

Implementation Highlights:

Sutlej Textile Industries: Best IT implementation of the year in 2008 Rapid rollout: Record time implementation of 7 months in its four locations.

Business Benefits

The integrated ERP environment delivered accurate, timely and integrated data spanning all activities and processes, giving Sutlej Textiles a clear view of performance across all aspects of its businesses. Some of the benefits of best practices and accelerated deployment earned by the client are as follows:

  • Increased productivity with rapid ERP rollout
  • Providing a consolidated and consistent data resource
  • Drastic cost reduction through streamlined information delivery
  • Customized analysis and periodic information system reports
  • Integrated business solutions across departments