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Voltas' Mobile App Makes Any Phone Smart
A case study on Mobility in ManufacturingThe Rs 10,000 crore Voltas needed a mobile app for service engineers to collect data from the company's servers. Distributing preloaded smartphones was prohibitive. A device agnostic mobile app helped them shorten service cycle times by 50 percent.
Eveready Boosts Forecast Accuracy with a Simple Mobile App
A case study on Mobility in ManufacturingEveready struggled to keep a tab on its inventory across 3.3 million retail outlets. Read how a mobile app linked its sales workforce and distributors to the HQ and helped improve forecast accuracy and fulfill demands on time with lean inventory.
Sheela Foam Boosts Bottomline with an SMS Solution
A case study on ERP in ManufacturingThe Rs 900-crore Sheela Foam was struggling to focus on its most important business objective: improving profit margins. Read how India’s largest mattress manufacturer used SMS to share reports and boost its bottomline.
VST Triumphs with In-House ERP, Makes it Profitable Too
A case study on ERP in ManufacturingCIO 100 Winner: Ratnakar Nemani developed a payroll module which could be integrated with ERP as a part of his SAP consulting services business. The company, which has first focused on bringing home its ERP, now, offers its SAP expertise to other companies.
Asian Paints Redefines Customer Interaction
A case study on ERP in ManufacturingCIO 100 Winner: Choksi and his team set up a central order processing service (COPS), which leverages recent improvements in telephony technologies. To create COPS, Choksi also leveraged the company's investment in SAP.
RFID Tackles Freight Worries for Shree Cement
A case study on RFID in ManufacturingCIO 100 Winner: When you are in the manufacturing business, freigh charges consume a huge chunk of your budget. But this CIO, with less than Rs 5 lakh found a way to deal with trucker cartels and improve loading efficiency, saving his company over Rs 12 lakh a month.
Server Consolidation Results in Cost Savings for Indian Rayon
A case study on Server in ManufacturingCIO 100 Winner: This ingenious CIO of Indian Rayon, the second largest producer of viscose filament yarn (VFY) in India pulled off a neat yet tricky cost cutting measure, even going against the advice of industry experts.
ERP Employed To Gain Scalability and Visibility in Supply Chain
A case study on ERP in ManufacturingCIO 100 Winner: E-Kanban system can be integrated with an ERP and it allows real-time demand signaling across the supply chain and provides the company with improved visibility. Within a year of implementation, the project led to a 15 -20 percent reduction in overall inventory of E-Kanban items.
JSL goes the Open Source Way to Reduce Downtime
A case study on Open Source in ManufacturingCIO 100 Winner: Here's an ingenious CIO who found a low-cost option to keep his IT infrastructure primed for success.
Storage Virtualization makes Asian Paints Agile
A case study on Virtualization in ManufacturingManish Choksi, Chief-Corporate Strategy & CIO, Asian Paints, revamped his entire storage infrastructure ensuring scalability for the next two years.
Propack Virtualizes For Speed
A case study on Virtualization in PowerSpread over 21 different locations, Essel Propack was struggling to collaborate and communicate across many physical servers. Virtualization helped them centralize their system, while lowering operational costs.
HPCL Revamps Ways of Capital Budgeting
A case study on Virtualization in ManufacturingCIO 100 Winner: Nishi Vasudeva revolutionized the process of capital budgeting, making life easier for employees and other stakeholders. She developed a Lotus Notes workflow tool and deployed it across the organization. Today, the system provides the means to justify the investment, mention the estimated timelines for completion and the estimated ROI.
Titan's Advance Planning System Helps Demand Forecasting
A case study on Software in RetailAn Advance Planning System to forecast demand helped them plan production better and increase lead-time for the journey of its ten lakh watches from raw material to the velvet cushion.
Sheela Foam Used SMS to Control Market Price
A case study on Data Management in ManufacturingEvery company wants to establish its brand as a household name. Sometimes age-old, time-tested formulae help build credibility. Sometimes IT can do that for you.
LG’s Boosts Post-sale Service with SMS
A case study on CRM in ManufacturingService quality at LG's third-party service centers left the customers totally dissatisfied. They urgently needed to do something- before brand loyalty dried up.
