Improving Lives by meet the needs of regional consumers Demand by consistently Supply to Millions of Homes

A.V. Thomas was the founding owner of leading family-owned business group in South India, The A.V.T. Group of companies that is based in Chennai. The business began through its plantation company that bought a 100 hectares of land in Pasuppara, Idukki district of Kerala and converted the same into a tea plantation. The group diversified into other areas of plantation such as rubber mainly in hilly regions of Kerala and set up its iconic AVT brand of tea in the market.

Before: Challenges and Opportunities

• Legacy system was already catering to needs of current business basic needs
• Home grown solution does not cater to the reporting needs which is very important for quick business decisions
• The main functions of sales, finance, procurement, stores & distribution should be done through single expandable platform
• Planning & Manufacturing processes are manual
• Tea Procurement and storage is a very complex process, should be simplified and systematized

Why SAP and SAVIC Technologies Private Limited

• Deep understanding of the Fast moving Consumer Product and Trading industries
• Process integration across Planning , Manufacturing , operations, sales, and finance to support intelligent enterprises
• Real-time analytics to deliver insight into inventory and customer needs
• SAP S/4HANA covers most of the requirements as a best practice and inbuilt functionality, like finance, Sales, procurement, storage & production (packing etc.) with seamless integration.
• Provided E2E solution starting from procurement of RM to packing materials, blending, production, stock transfer, manufacturing to sales depot and from primary sales from depot to customers by implementing FI/SD/MM/PP/QM
• Ever expanding business has to be supported by world class, proven next generation software platform. Different integrations with “batch management”, bar code reading, MIS reporting etc. with SAP S/4HANA.