Textile firm Banswara Syntex has ditched legacy e-mail system in support of cloud-based e-mail and messaging
AJAY AJMERA
BANSWARA SYNTEX
We are using an internal portal for our fabric designs wherein we have scanned almost 10,000-plus fabric we have developed and made an album with full specification. Every salesman can have rights to view it and show it to buyers and can take an order.
Bansawara Syntex is one of the largest single mill setup producing spun fibre-dyed yarns in Asia. Started in 1976, the organisation has witnessed an evolution wherein it has not only diversified into readymade garments but has setup two thermal power plants.
Initially, it was a spinning mill with 12,500 spindles but as the journey continued, the company completed expansion, diversification and modernisation plans. Over the last three decades, Bansawara Syntex besides increasing the spinning capacity to 143,240 spindles, started production of fabric from 1993, readymade garments from 2004, made-ups and worsted spinning from 2008. The company entered into joint venture with French company, Carreman in 2006 for products of women used Lycra manufacturer and with another French company Treves SA for automotive textiles in 2012.
The growing complexity within the BSE-listed textile firm owing to its massive operations had many of its functions working in silos with limited collaborations between teams, primarily driven through e-mail.
Moving away from legacy, Banswara Syntex took its first big move towards digitisation by implementing SAP ERP across the organisation. The deployment brought in several efficiencies within the group, while laying grounds for the company's digital transformation.
Ajay Ajmera, deputy general manager (IT), Banswara Syntex, realised the importance of collaboration within the group and decided to take the Cloud route for faster time to market without disrupting the organisation. “We have implemented the entire Google G-suite of applications which include Gmail, Google hangouts, Google drive and Google office,” says Ajmera. Gmail and other Google applications have significantly reduced the number of issues that the IT department used to get from users.
With this in place, Ajmera digitised fabric designs so that it was easier to have a common repository for the designs that could be shared within the orgnanisation and used by sales team to take orders from buyers.
As a next step, Ajmera is bringing in Internet of Things into the manufacturing process wherein the company is trying to enhance the efficiency of the entire process of atomisation of fabric inspection. Banswara Syntex plans to adopt IoT could take it to the next level of efficiency as the company continues its journey into a digital future, trying to bring in real time control over the entire manufacturing and distribution process. “Our aim is to move completely to Cloud technologies while implementing big data and SMAC tools,” shares Ajmera.
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