Pune/ New Delhi, India - October 27, 2009

The IT solution will help optimize its supply chain network spread across India.

Oracle partner SYSTIME played a key role in the implementation

News Facts

• Pune-based Sai Prasad Foods Ltd. (SPFL), a leading supplier and manufacturer of daily-consumed food products with a turnover of over Rs. 100 crores, has recently completed the implementation of Oracle JD Edwards in its corporate office, manufacturing and food processing facilities covering 55 branches across 13 states in India.
  
• The company, which markets the ‘Jayaka’ & ‘ Feel Good’ brand of food products, chose to replace its legacy ERP system with Oracle JD Edwards to allow SPFL quick access to data on crop and harvest identification for each block of land.
  
• With this solution, SPFL is also able to maintain historical records, track operational costs, and maintain harvest estimates for supply planning. They are able to flan and manage all farming activities more efficiently from pre-planting to post-harvest cleanup.
  
• SYSTIME, a Certified Advantage Partner and Oracle PartnerNetwork member played a crucial role as the implementation partner, having completed the implementation in 130 days.
  
• SYSTIME enjoys a 17-year old partnership with Oracle-JD Edwards globally. Employing over 650 dedicated JD Edwards specialists, with expertise spanning all versions of JD Edwards product family, SYSTIME’s project management and technical skills contributed to the speedy and smooth implementation at SPFL.
  
  • With the transition to Oracle Applications, SPFL is already reaping benefits such as:
    
  • Ability to better manage collection processing, marketing and distribution of agriculture and food products thereby enabling greater operational, supply chain and business efficiencies.
    
  • Reduction in waste and implementation of a smart distribution process for finished products, which has done away with the enormous paper work and duplication of entries that were previously required by the legacy system.
    
  • Enhance the decision-making capability of its senior management through estimations and analysis for profitable operations.
    
  • Improvement in crop utilization rates and margins with data automation that provides visibility into forecasts of yields, costs, and quality of harvested crops.
    
• This comes at a time when company which is associated with the agriculture sector are turning to information technology applications for better farm management. The need for adoption of better practices can be underscored from the fact that while the agriculture and the allied sector employs over 65-70% of India's population; it contributes only 22% of India's gross domestic product. Moreover tight business margins, labour supply problems, and increasing regulatory oversight have created an environment for adoption of IT infrastructure by the agriculture sector[1].

Oracle JD Edwards Enterprise One 8.12 modules deployed in Sai Prasad Foods Ltd.

• The JD Edwards Enterprise One 8.12 modules deployed by Sai Prasad Foods Ltd. include Financials Management, Sales and Distribution Management, Oracle Inventory Management, Manufacturing Management, Quality Management and Grower Management

Supporting Quotes

• "In today’s business environment, it has become critical to adopt technology to ensure efficiency, competitiveness and ability to adapt to the dynamic needs in a agriculture intensive business like ours,” said , Mr. S.L. Shrivastav, CEO, Sai Prasad Foods Ltd. “We found Oracle JD Edwards and SYSTIME most suitable to support our business. We are already reaping the benefits.”
  
• “We are happy that our longstanding association with SYSTIME and their evolved and innovative implementation methodology coupled with Oracle Applications is delivering value to Sai Prasad Foods Ltd.,” said Samik Roy, Head – Commercial Applications Business, Oracle India. “Integrated enterprise applications like Oracle JDE’s Grower Management will help growing companies like Sai Prasad Foods improve margins by increasing control on activities concerning land and crop details throughout the growing cycle and during harvesting.”
  
• “The business partnership with Sai Prasad Foods Ltd. reflects SYSTIME’s domain expertise, and demonstrates our deep industry knowledge. This allows us to help diversified businesses adopt functional best practices and raise the performance bar. The partnership is significant for both Oracle and SYSTIME as it marks the first ever implementation of Grower Management solution in the Asia Pacific region.” said Ramesh Subramanian, Vice President- Global Delivery, SYSTIME
  

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