Asian Paints

Asian Paints Limited is an Indian multinational paint company engaged in the business of manufacturing, selling and distribution of paints, coatings, products related to home decor, bath fittings and providing of related services with a turnover of €1.8 billion.

Flo undertook an audit exercise, comprising of a functional system review and a technical system review including a database audit

Services Used

Implementation
evolv Applications
Logistics Platform
Managed Services
Consulting & Advisory
TMS Assessment
WMS
Automated Testing
Cloud Migration
AMC

Business Drivers / Challenges

  • Oracle Transportation Management (OTM) application unable to handle volume of 12 depots.
  • The performance of the database coupled with the applications’ bulk plans, interfaces, and user actions were all bottlenecks
  • The application and the webserver had not been tuned since the production go-live
  • Asian Paints intended to scale operations to 128 Depots, which seemed out of the question

Solutions

  • Audit exercise along with recommendations for hardware ready for operations upsizing
  • Flo trained Asia Paints and Oracle consulting teams in functional and technical audit processes
  • Enabled and equipped the internal IT team with the tools needed for identifying and resolving performance issues during day-to-day operations.

Results

  • Performed a number of system enhancements and created a number of reports to improve existing business processes. During the audit process, many of our recommendations were implemented. The client was able to see the real benefit in terms of performance in the application.
  • Advised on the hardware architecture to ensure a minimal break during scaling up operations.
  • A total of 41 recommendations with Action Plan were submitted to Asian Paints. A large number of these recommendations were on critical performance issues. Most of the recommendations were implemented within 45 days of the audit report submission. OTM was successfully scaled!

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