'CDC Factory helps track wastage'

CDC Software is one of the few companies in the world which has its SEA headquarters in Bangalore. CDC, which recently bagged the Asian Banker award for its CRM project implementation in ICICI Bank, is now planning to foray into the Indian SMB sector with its various enterprise solutions.

In an exclusive interaction with CIOL, Nagaraja Prakasam, MD, CDC Software, South and South East Asia, spoke about CDC Factory, an enterprise solution meant for Manufacturing Operations Management product for manufacturing verticals of F&B, Automobiles, Pharmaceuticals and Consumer Packaged Goods (F&B) firms. Excerpts:

What is CDC Factory and how it helps enterprises?

CDC Factory is a manufacturing operations management system that transforms manufacturing performance by empowering people to take immediate action. It is a unique solution aimed at manufacturing and F&B companies, which helps them track the wastage while manufacturing the products and thus helps in cost reduction. This solution also enables customers reduce their manual effort in assessing the percentage of products being wasted.

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Who are your customers?

CDC Software has many customers for the product across the globe, particularly in the US. Our customers include automobile major Honda, beverages behemoth Coca Cola, Kens Foods, Lakeside Foods, Intersnack, Natures Way Foods, Windsor Foods, etc. We are also in talks with some F&B cmpanies in India with our partner EDS Technologies to implement this solution. It will help them track the wastage being produced during the production, like how many bottles are broken and what is the percentage of the wastage etc.

How CDC Factory works?

This is a manufacturing operations management solution that empowers people on the shop floor to take a decision. The CDC factory is installed on the main shop floor and the customer can programme and define the areas where people can track. If something goes wrong, the employee can stop the process and prevent a bad product being made. The factory floor employees can stop it and fix the problems and thus prevent money and time waste, he claimed.

What are your plans for SMBs in India?

CDC Factory is in its initial stages in India. SMBs in India are just a starting for us and we hope to exploit Indian SMB market in the coming years. However, we have customers like ICICI Bank, SBI Life, and lots financial services customers in the CRM side.