SEL Manufacturing Ltd., which has positioned itself as an established and leading vertically integrated multi-product textile manufacturing conglomerate in India, has gone live on ERP in just 5½ months since initiation of the project. SEL runs with ultra modern facilities engaged in manufacturing quality textiles across the entire textile value chain that include yarns, knitted fabrics, towels, readymade garments and in future denims too.
With a marketing network in more than 40 countries around the globe, the SEL Group, which has a current annual turnover of $400 million, has plans to raise it to $1 billion by 2013-14.
Elaborating the company plan, Mr. Neeraj Saluja, Managing Director, SEL Group, said: “As I understand, this has been one of the fastest Datatex Implementation in industry. In fact, we wanted our ERP system to go live exactly with the same speed and dynamism which the SEL Group in known for. ERP provides an integrated view of business performance and does ensure efficient, transparent processes. It also enables rapid response to ever changing market conditions and improved collaboration between different internal teams”.
Talking about enabling SEL with ERP, Mr. V.K. Goyal, Executive Director & CEO, SEL Group, observed: “Today SEL has grown to a position of prominence amongst the major textile players of India. In fact, SEL has not only come out as a frontrunner but is also the most talked about and fastest growing Indian textile company in recent times creating one successful venture after another.”
Referring to SEL’s ambitious growth plans, he said: “It became all the more important for us to make the organization ERP enabled and we are confident that it is right fit for our organization’s vision, long term strategy, business control, transparency and the need to improve efficiency across its end to end business processes”.
Mr. Z.S. Chaudhari, President, IT SEL Group, said while elaborating about ERP implementation that out of the short listed three potential software vendors, SEL Manufacturing Ltd. chose the “Datatex NOW” ERP solution fully integrated to “SAP FICO” as its strategic platform and opted to implement it on the “IBM System platform”.
Mr. Chaudhari also said that “Datatex NOW” solution includes sector-specific modules and supports all the production planning, materials management, manufacturing, marketing and financials at SEL.
Ms. Jyotsna Varma, General Manager IT, SEL, explained that by selecting Datatex ERP on IBM System server, SEL was able to implement the production and development environments for its Datatex solution on the same physical machine.
“In addition to avoiding the cost of buying, installing, powering and maintaining a second physical server, the company benefited from a single, integrated backup procedure for all its Datatex data”, Ms. Varma added.
The SEL project includes sales, planning, scheduling, production, costing, shop floor management, inventory and purchases, all included in the Datatex NOW (Network Oriented World) standard offering.
The project is being managed and implemented by Infinite Computer solutions (India) Ltd. (ICS), www.infinite.com, Datatex BP in India.
ICS has been selected by Datatex as its partner in India for the sale, implementation and support of its ERP product NOW.
“Datatex is very proud of being part of this phenomenal growth process of a new textile and apparel corporation in these days where business has become so much more challenging, complex and interesting than ever”, said Mr. Alexander Hagin, President and Founder of the Datatex Group.
Datatex A.G. www.datatex.com, is the world’s leading supplier of IT software solutions to the global textile and apparel industry with the largest installed base of textile software with customers in 42 countries and five continents.
Datatex textile ERP platforms represent over 20 years of continuous software development and refinement in close collaboration with the largest user group in the textile and apparel sector.
SEL has joined a very well respected list of Datatex customers globally and in India where some of the country’s leading textile corporations have gone for the Datatex ERP solution. The National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) has also introduced Datatex (NOW) as part of its curriculum in all its eight centres in India.