IBM has announced that Kwality Dairy India Ltd.(KDIL), a leading dairy and dairy products company in Northern India, has selected IBM cloud to improve the dairy’s operational efficiency and productivity in its bid to become a global milk and milk products company.
“Currently, KDIL processes about 1.7 million litres of milk per day, making it one of the largest milk procurement operations in Northern India. Our long term vision is to become a global milk and milk products company and to achieve this goal, we have to integrate our operations and improve business efficiency,” said Sanjay Dhingra , Chairman & Managing Director, Kwality Dairy (India) Limited. “We were looking for a technology partner who could help achieve our vision and goals. With IBM’s industry knowledge and expertise we are rest assured to meet the ever-increasing demands and ease of management,” he added.
The IBM SmartCloud SAP Express Dairy Solution, in one of the first such deployments in the Indian dairy industry, will help KDIL build a more robust, integrated operations system and address challenges related to milk procurement and payment, production, and fat and SNF (solid not fat) accounting, among others processes. For example, the solution helps with forecast demand more accurately, generate more efficient production schedules, and see manufacturing processes with greater clarity-which are critical in ever-changing quantity and quality of the nonstandardized and perishable raw materials.
As the solution will be based on IBM SmartCloud, it will provide KDIL with a pay-as-you-go model, and the flexibility and scalability required to manage a growing set of requirements. IBM will help KDIL develop foundational business intelligence and reporting capabilities while processing efficiencies through inbuilt industry practices.
“IBM’s SAP Dairy solution is designed to make KDIL more flexible in addressing new business challenges and opportunities for growth,” said Kamal Singhani, Partner, CPG, Retail & Smarter Commerce Industry leader, IBM Global Business Services – India/South Asia. “IBM is committed to the success of companies like KDIL and is making significant investment to help these companies succeed. We view these companies as engines of global economic growth, innovation and industry transformation.”
