Kirloskar Ferrous Industries Goes Live On Oracle Applications In 3.5 Months

Aug. 18, 2008 - PRLog -- Kirloskar Ferrous Industries Limited, a part of the Kirloskar Group of Companies, recently went live on the Oracle E-Business Suite within a short span of 108 days. The implementation was completed by Hexaware Technologies, a Certified Partner of the Oracle PartnerNetwork. Kirloskar Ferrous chose Oracle Applications over competing products including mySAP as they found Oracle Applications best suited to address their industry-specific needs. The adoption of Oracle Applications by Kirloskar Ferrous India further enhances Oracle’s penetration in the manufacturing industry in India.
Kirloskar Ferrous Industries is a major player in the castings and pig iron markets, with production facilities at Bevinhalli village near Hospet and in Solapur. The company will use Oracle Applications to streamline operations across both its production facilities.  The company has implemented key modules from the Oracle E-Business Suite - including Financials, Manufacturing, Distribution and Human Resources - to meet its system and data integration needs across its various departments.
“The implementation of Oracle Applications is a strategic initiative to streamline our existing operations across different locations. This provides an integrated view of information across the various departments to help our decision-making process,” said Mr. R.V. Gumaste, Managing Director, Kirloskar Ferrous. “The implementation of Oracle Applications in a short period of 108 days shows the flexibility and ease of implementation of the Oracle E-Business Suite and the capabilities of the Hexaware and Oracle teams.”
“The manufacturing sector in India is undergoing rapid transformation as Indian manufacturers cater to the increased demand from both the domestic and international markets,” said Mr. Nitin Paranjape, director, Commercial Applications Sales, Oracle India. “Oracle provides world-class solutions for the manufacturing sector that are easy to implement and use, and which offer immense flexibility. We are happy to partner with Kirloskar Ferrous on their growth path.”
“The Kirloskar Ferrous implementation stands testimony to Hexaware’s ability to rapidly deploy Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions for the manufacturing industry. We believe in continuously adding value to our clients by offering them the benefit of our extensive domain expertise and application-specific tool kits,” said Mr. Moorthi Chokkanathan, Head, India and Mexico, Delivery and Operations, Hexaware Technologies. “We received excellent support from Kirloskar Ferrous’ top management.”
Another group company, Kirloskar Oil Engines Limited, is a long-standing Oracle Applications customer.

About Kirloskar Ferrous India
Kirloskar Ferrous Industries Ltd (KFIL) is part of the Kirloskar group, a 120 million US Dollars engineering conglomerate supporting critical industries. The group companies are century old pioneers in their areas of specialization like power,  agriculture, industry and transport, oil and gas and environment protection with a range of world-class industrial products and turnkey services. Kirloskar Ferrous is in the business of manufacturing of grey iron castings, S.G. iron castings, steel investment castings and pig iron. With two plants in Solapur, Maharashtra and Bevinahalli, Koppal, Karnataka, KFIL has more than 1300 employees and a turnover of more than INR 5 Billion.

About Hexaware Technologies Ltd.
Hexaware is a leading global provider of IT and BPO services. The Company has achieved leadership position in domains such as Banking, Financial Services, Insurance, Transportation, Logistics and HR-IT solutions. Hexaware focuses on delivering business results leveraging technology solutions and specializes in Business Intelligence & Analytics, Enterprise Applications, Independent Testing and Legacy Modernization. Hexaware has been providing technology solutions for business for 17 years and offers world class service delivery, technology leadership and skilled human capital. For additional information log on to www.hexaware.com

About Oracle India
Oracle entered India in 1987 and set up an India Development Centre in 1994. Today, Oracle has two India Development Centres as well as Indian hubs for Oracle's global support, consulting and financial services operations. Through its extensive network of more than 400 channel and alliance partners under the Oracle PartnerNetwork, Oracle India markets the complete range of Oracle products and services across India. Oracle India has more than 7000 customers in the telecommunications, banking, insurance, manufacturing and utilities industries, across the government and private sector. Oracle India is a major partner for E-Governance initiatives of Central and State Government bodies in India. The Oracle-HP E-Governance Centre of Excellence, Oracle Asia R & D Centre and Partner Solution Center are located at Oracle India’s head office in Gurgaon, near New Delhi. Oracle’s Retail Centre of Excellence is located in Bangalore.

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