TVS wins SAP ACE 2007 Awards for Customer Excellence

New Delhi, Aug 28: TVS Motor Company Ltd today said it has won this year's ''SAP ACE 2007 Awards'' for customer excellence in the 'most innovative netweaver' category.

An eminent jury comprising of powerful industry names judged the company on various stringent parameters including use of SAP solutions to enable strategic decision making, SAP as a change agent for business transformation and to manage growth, a company statement said.

''This award is the result of several SAP implementations that we have put in place at TVS Motor Company to effectively manage the supply chain, which is a critical factor, especially for our new product introduction process,'' TVS Motor Company CIO T G Dhandapani said in the statement.

He received the award on behalf of the company.

TVS Motor Company won the award for which fifty large enterprises including the likes Titan Industries, Mahindra and other corporates were nominated.

''Application of SAP in new product development process has resulted in 20 per cent reduction in lead time. This has largely been effected by supplier collaboration using Integrated Project Management,'' Mr Dhandapani said.

Also, it has enabled early supplier involvement through web-enabled collaboration which would reduce the design iteration and also contribute to improve lead time for development, he added.

Last year, TVS Group company, Sundaram-Clayton had won the first ever SAP ACE Awards for its innovative implementation in Discreet Manufacturing Category.

UNI