TVS Infotech featured in Autocar Professional magazine.

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TVS Intotech eyes
beyond South India
The company is targeting business from small and medium enterprises as well as
tapping opportunities in the Middle East and South Africa. TS Bhargav reports.
Dynamic marketplace Smart solutions
(TVSD,promoted As business in the TVSI caters to the
bySundram automotive industry requirements of suppliers
TVS Fasteners,
Infotech
a provider
of enterprise resource
continue to face
pressures to improve
efficiency, reduce costs
to the TVS Group and
builds solutions in tandem
with them. Its suite of
planning (ERP)and IT and quickly identify and mid- market solutions
solutions, is expanding its respond to changing include Smart Compo,
business in India and the demands, the products Smart Foundry and Smart
Middle East. The company thatTVSI develops helps Sugar. Smart Compo has
has opened an office in companies cope and been specifically developed
Bangalore, Pune and respond to competitive for the auto component
NCR region to target the challenges. manufacturing industry,
automotive industry based The company's which covers functions like
in these regions. automotive solutions customer inquiries, sales
TVSI is also weaving its support best practices orders, material stocks,
network in the domestic in Finance & Controlling production and dispatch
market and has built 41 (FICO), Production processes.
customers. Prasan RV; Planning and control (PP), Smart Foundry
executive vice-president, Sales & Distribution (SD), addresses issues such
TVSI, says: "We are also Materials Management as managing inventory,
looking at smaller Tier 2 (MM), Quality frequent changes
towns such as Coimbatore Management (QM), Plant of moulds and yield
and Madurai. We are Maintenance (PM) and monitoring. The solution
looking at operating in a Forms and reporting. is suited for sand casting
hub-and-spoke model in Prasan says, "We are and centrifugal casting.
Smart Foundry is a SAP pattern life monitoring. And
these places." focusing on small and The company has solutions
solution targeted for the complex processes associated
"We want to expand medium enterprises in foundries in the mid-market for mould management
with the foundry process.
into areas where there is both discrete and process targeted at the integration
segment. It also integrates and The benefits include rapid
a strong manufacturing manufacturing. In discrete optmises process from sales
of laboratory information
implementation time, reduced
base and availability of manufacturing, we look system and traceability.
and procurement to production integration risk, reduced
component manufacturers specifically into auto The company has
and quality control. Smart managed complexity, lower
in the rnidbusiness segment components, industry and many clients in South
Foundry also addresses some total cost of ownership, and
under Rs 1,000 crore machinery component India and is now targeting
of the unique requirements like distributed data across sales
turnover." manufacturers, plastic opportunities in the west
spectrometer integration, and and business units.
"We are also venturing product manufacturing, and north region of the
into markets like Saudi electrical and electronic country. It has plans to
Arabia, Oman, United Arab manufacturing. In terms with 50 percent of our open delivery centres in
Emirates and South Africa. of process manufacturing, revenues in the last couple these regions to service
All our efforts are focused we look at metal forming, of years coming from customers better. Its
on Saudi Arabia because milk products, and food this segment in which we major clients include
many companies in Middle production so we focus have domain expertise. Sundaram Fasteners, TVS
East are locating themselves specifically on vertical However, based on Tyres, NeIcast, Kusalava,
there. After Saudi Arabia, segments within the investments and sector Aarkays, Rajshree Sugars.
Oman is a very strategic process and discrete focus, we think revenue TVSI recorded a turnover
market and moreover, the manufacturing segments," from discrete and process ofRs 20 crore last year
work culture here is similar he added manufacturing over the and expects to record 100
to the work culture in "Our growth in the auto prasan RV: "We're also aiming next three years will be percent increased growth
India," he adds. for smaller Tier 2 towns." in the current fiscal .•
segment predominates equal shares."
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