Nestlé India lowers TCO by
migrating to .NET
Profile
Nestlé India Ltd. is the leader in beverages, milk products
and nutrition, prepared dishes, and cooking aids. A subsidiary
of Nestlé S A of Switzerland, Nestlé India is acknowledged
as one of India's 'Most Respected Companies' and one of the
'Top Wealth Creators'. The company is committed to long-term
sustainable growth and shareholder satisfaction. Over nine
decades, it has built a very special relationship based on
commitment and trust with its consumers.
Customer Situation
Nestlé India collects milk from almost 90,000 farmers
in Moga. Payments to the farmers are determined by the
quality of the milk they supply.
Nestlé India had a Milk Management System (MMS), which
was a comprehensive PowerBuilder and Oracle based thin
client system covering business functions such as Milk
Collection and Transfer, Quality Analysis, Payment,
Operations, Monitoring and Forecast. However, it wanted
to shift current applications, running on various platforms
onto a common platform. |
 During
the course of the project, the NIIT team showed
a strong professional commitment, which was decisive
in overcoming the functional and technical complexitites
and finally ensuring success. 
Michael Progin
Head of Information
Services
Nestle India
www.nestle.com |
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The
project was important to both Nestlé and NIIT.
It was a challenging task to deliver the product
on time, especially when technical challenges
such as business rules extraction, replication
of PowerBuilder like UI features, complex customisation
features, third party product integration and
integration of multicountry requirements were
to be dealt with.
Shishir Sinha
Project Manager
NIIT Technologies
www.niit.com |
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Solution
Nestlé approached NIIT to convert the MMS application
environment to that of Visual Basic .NET and SQL Server
2000.
The new application, Raw Milk Procurement System (RMPS),
has made room for additional functionalities, thus making
the application scalable and flexible.
Benefits
Nestlé monitored a significantly lower Total Cost of
Ownership with the RMPS. |
The decentralization of data entry has eliminated historical
errors, and ensured sanctity of data. The .NET framework ensures
scalability to accommodate all future functional needs.
Successfully deployed at two of the Nestlé factories in India
and one in Sri Lanka, the solution is soon to be implemented
in Indonesia and Pakistan.
Partner: NIIT Technologies |
