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Business enabler review

How an increasingly

digitalised platform is

transforming our company

Overview unit worked in a silo and the best practices In 2014, the Company implemented SAP
With 10 units crushing cane from lakhs of were hard to implement. Besides, the data ERP to replace indigenously developed
farmers, it became cumbersome to track generated in a unit would not help in accounting software. The introduction
each function across units. As a result, the organisation-wide decision making. of SAP enhanced standardisation around
units created independent businesses. This created a room for digital a common platform, strengthening
There was a premium on operating interventions that would transform a systematic uniformity that enhanced
standards and reports. The result: each conventional business into a modern one. information flow and decision making.

Key initiatives, 2019-20 costs and inspiring optimal stocking. tracked around a format and handheld
Though IT automation was in its The Company is training employees in devices, helping the Company generate
early stages, the Company identified data management and analysis with the accurate geo-tagged data.
intervention areas to reduce costs and objective to scale to other plants. y yhe Company upgraded its SAP HANA
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enhance process efficiency. system to the latest generation during
y yhe Company plans to introduce SOPs
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The Company embarked on a pilot of various functions; SOP compliance will the year under review; one of the first
project in the area of plant maintenance be monitored through a tamper-proof few companies in India to do so in sugar
and spares management at one of online dashboard at the corporate office; sector. It has moved from an on-site server
its manufacturing plants: to capture besides, SOP-wise and plant-wise data is to a cloud server, enhancing security.
equipment-wise and spares-wise data. It is expected to facilitate informed decision- The Company strengthened centralised
expected that in the event of equipment making. anti-virus monitoring; updates are
failure, the fault can be traced leading to y yhe Company introduced software to monitored centrally to ensure that no
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necessary spares across the Company’s document cane development; employee- machine within the system skips a crucial
various facilities, moderating time and wise data of field officers is captured and update and becomes vulnerable.

Road ahead
Going ahead, the IT team will work on the effective implementation of the pilot project, creating a cultural shift within the Company.

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