MUMBAI, INDIA:SAP India, a subsidiary of SAP AG, today announced that Delhi Assam Roadways Corporation Ltd. (DARCL), a provider in transport and logistics services, would be consolidating its business processes onto a single platform with SAP applications for greater visibility across its entire enterprise.

In addition to enhancing operating margins and strengthening its customer and vendor relationships, the new solution would also provide the foundation for DARCL’s push into the Multi-Modal Transportation segment to offer customers true end-to-end Transport and Logistics services, said a press release.

Facing unrelenting pressure to reduce costs and improve efficiency in the already low-margin transport and logistics industry (in India, logistics costs are nearly 14 per cent of the GDP, compared to the western world which is around 8 per cent or so), DARCL decided to increase its speed of innovation and continuously assess and re-define its business model so as to maintain leadership, it added.

DARCL realized that it needed an enterprise-wide integrated business process platform to profitably and efficiently engage with such a complex supply network.

With SAP ERP 6.0, which would integrate the finance, procurement, human resources, sales, business intelligence and logistics functionalities on the SAP NetWeaver platform, DARCL would be able to sense and respond to real-time transportation events and disruptions across its entire business landscape.

“It was natural for us to choose SAP because of its in-depth understanding, coupled with wide expertise at the global level and leadership in the ERP space. As many of our customers are also using SAP systems, we foresee opportunities to integrate with our customers’ systems, thus allowing us to improve our value proposition to our customers and move higher up the value chain,” said Puneet Agarwal, director, DARCL.

He added that they are confident that through strengthening and consolidating their business from within, the best practices they adopt from SAP would transform DARCL into a truly global enterprise.

“The Transportation Industry in India is rapidly transforming and it is heartening to see industry leaders such as DARCL take a lead in leveraging technology,” said Ranjan Das, managing director, SAP, Indian subcontinent.

He added that the future of transportation logistics lies in greater accuracy, transparency and superior customer connect. SAP remains committed to India’s growth, and would continue investing in growing the IT ecosystem to help businesses innovate and transform to become more competitive.

Deploying technology is the smart way forward, and they are glad to be a part of this revolution with DARCL.