Sap case study - Empowering women and achieving process excellence - shreeja mahila milk producer company

1. | |SAP Business Transformation Study Consumer Products Shreeja Mahila Milk Producer Company
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More than 57,000 women farmers in 2500 villages across southeast India have joined
Shreeja Mahila Milk Producer Company Ltd. (Shreeja MMPCL), a member company
formed in 2014 to purchase, process, and market milk from independent sources in the
region. Success has come quickly by living its mission to maximize returns to members
while providing nutritious, high-quality milk to consumers, Shreeja MMPC is now the
largest women-owned farm producer in the world.
To support continued growth, Shreeja MMPCL turned to Zensar Technologies Ltd., an
SAP partner, to streamline key business processes with a customized version of the
SAP ERP application. Zensar built a preconfigured, template-based solution loaded®
with accelerators to deliver rapid business benefits. Now Shreeja MMPCL has an
integrated platform to optimize milk procurement, materials management, production
planning and quality, sales, distribution, and finance. And with all data centralized in
one system, management has instant access to the trustworthy information needed to
make sound decisions and to continue delivering big returns to all members.
Shreeja Mahila Milk Producer Company
Ltd.: Running the World's Largest
Women-Owned Farm Producer with
SAP ERP®

2. | |SAP Business Transformation Study Consumer Products Shreeja Mahila Milk Producer Company
Empowering women and achieving process excellence
Company
Shreeja Mahila Milk
Producer Company Ltd.
Headquarters
Tirupati, India
Industry
Consumer products
Products and Services
Dairy products, agricultural
and animal husbandry
services
Employees
285
Annual Turnover
Rs 4 billion
Web Site
www.shreejamilk.com
Partner
Zensar Technologies Ltd.
www.zensar.com
Objectives
• Manage membership, shareholdings, and payments for 57,000 milk
producers
• Optimize business-critical processes such as milk procurement
Why SAP
• SAP ERP application as a proven platform for integrating all business®
processes, improving operational efficiency, centralizing data, and making
information accessible from any location
• Expertise of Zensar Technologies Ltd., an SAP partner, in implementing
and customizing SAP ERP
Resolution
• Relied on Zensar to deliver a preconfigured, template-based version of
SAP ERP that meets the unique needs of the dairy industry segment
• Included built-in accelerators to speed deployment and modular building
blocks to enable the scalability to support business growth
• Provided a single integrated platform to support milk procurement,
materials management, sales and distribution, production planning, quality
management, plant maintenance, finance, and controlling
Benefits
• Automate the entire milk procurement process
• Enable timely, direct-deposit payments to milk producers
• Reduce inventory costs by increasing data transparency and traceability
• Monitor and control operations more efficiently and effectively
• Improve management decision making with insightful dashboards
2 days
To complete payments,
down from 1 week
Rs 110 million
In payments to milk
producers every fortnight
100%
Online, direct-deposit
payments to milk
producers
2 months
To implement the
solution, within budget
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"By centralizing our data in SAP ERP, we’ve improved business process
efficiency. And by automating milk procurement, we have a transparent
payment process for members. We’ve also gained the flexibility to connect
business locations and processes to meet organizational requirements."
E. R. Sajeesh, Head of IT, Shreeja Mahila Milk Producer Company Ltd.

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