Tirupur goes the SAP way!

TIRUPUR: Demonstrating that it is gaining momentum in the textile industry, SAP India today announced that major exporters of hosiery knitted ready-made garments are adopting SAP’s industry specific portfolio of solutions to gain competitive advantage by managing their enterprises more efficiently and profitably.

Well known exporters of hosiery knitted ready-made garments in Tirupur such as Network Clothing Company (NCC) and Jupiter Knitting Company (Jupiter) have recently chosen SAP for enabling proactive financial management, increasing employee efficiency and ensuring business intelligence for faster decision-making.

"Textile exporters come to us because their stakeholders such as customers, shareholders and employees are demanding more than ever,” said Alan Sedghi, President and MD, SAP Indian Sub Continent. “The Business Solution from SAP is helping textile exporters become more competitive, improve customer and vendor relations, enhance business process management and increase the quality of decision making.”

“The dynamics of the export industry call for a solution that helps forecast demand and control inventory, while constantly enhancing employee efficiency and ensuring quality standards are met. After speaking to several solution providers, we chose SAP because of their expertise and experience in the industry, product superiority and strong partner support” said M. Ravi, Managing Director, Network Clothing Company.

“We wanted a solution that is flexible and enables us to be responsive to meet our customers’ changing needs The SAP solutions portfolio offers us a comprehensive solution that helps us meet market requirements faster, reduce costs, increase customer loyalty, and enhance overall business efficiency” said S. Krishnaraj, Partner of Jupiter Knitting Company.

SAP has gained tremendous momentum in the SMB segment, adding a large number of customers in the last one year itself. SMB is a strategic focus segment for SAP and the company intends to be the number one solution provider for SMBs in Asia Pacific by 2005. In India, SAP is already in a leadership position with over 200 SMB customers across industry verticals. Some of the major wins include MTR Foods, HTMT, Nilkamal Plastics, NATCO Pharma, Matrubhumi, Suzlon Energy, Emcure Pharmaceuticals, Mark Auto, Goa Optolab etc.