Kurlon becomes the first SME to implement SAP S4 HANA for its 9 factories


Mattress manufacturing firm Kurlon will be the first SMEs to go live on SAP S4 HANA for its nine factories, one corporate office and 75 branches across India. Established in 1962, the company is the leading mattress manufacturer in the country. Kurlon has the PAN India presence and operates in vivid range of bed accessories. […]


DhananjayaMattress manufacturing firm Kurlon will be the first SMEs to go live on SAP S4 HANA for its nine factories, one corporate office and 75 branches across India. Established in 1962, the company is the leading mattress manufacturer in the country. Kurlon has the PAN India presence and operates in vivid range of bed accessories.

Kurlon had implemented SAP version 4.7 wayback in 2005. The project did not shape up well owing to several reasons and constraints which left a visible dent in the company’s IT setup.

“Kurlon invested in multiple technologies such as SAP, Tally, Web based applications which were in Silos and interacting with each other the traditional way – this was a heterogeneous platform which used to only interact and not integrate with each other, days never passed without a technical glitch and the developments never stopped as the internal IT team had made a habit of designing the wheel every now and then. Such non-coordinated environment always led to chaos such as incomplete or wrong reports, data errors due to non-exchange of data between two systems” said Dhananjaya P, CIO, Kurlon.

The company’s ERP or core system has ought to be a single platform or a platform which can be well integrated as no one single solution will fulfill the requirements, in order to bring the entire business on a single streamlined platform Dhananjaya decided that SAP will be the primary application running across the company and to go ahead with SAP S4 HANA. All the other IT developments in future will be around SAP S4 HANA and it will be the core application running across Kurlon.

“The idea is to measure the supply chain efficiency, quality aspects and induce visibility in the business processes. This ERP will be operating the entire gamut of operations in a seamless approach” he further shared.
Kurlon is investing Rs. 5 crores for SAP S4 HANA deployment and hopes to achieve the ROI within a year or “At least add-on 10% value to the bottom” he added. The project is expected to go live in next six months.

 

Source: Economic Times

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