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ITC-Project One

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PCQ Bureau
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Information technology integrates the entire operations of the retail

initiative at ITC from 'fiber to fashion'. But they needed one solution that

would be able to handle complexity of the apparels' retail land- scape, be able

to parallely process information, in a heavily interdependent environment.

Therefore, they decided to go for deploy- ment of an enterprise-wide solution

that is nimble and also must be able to anticipate more often than to



simply react. The solution should be able to handle a variety of segments,
variety of fashion lines, clothings for both sexes, for all seasons, for all

occasions, product segmentations, etc. The solution should be intelligent enough

to understand the needs of business. The software must be able to generate and

handle an inordinate large number of SKUs. It should also cover distribution

through company-owned retail outlets. To handle such vast complexity, the

solution should provide nearly 100% uptime of IT systems-connectivity,

replication routines etc.

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All these challenges called for the conceptualization of 'Project One', a

suite of IT solution consisting of multiple software systems including a core

ERP for transaction processing, BI Solution covering dynamic reporting and

business decision support, POS solution, Smart Card based loyalty solution for

consumer delight, various planning tools and KPI based SMART engine to

facilitate employees to carry out their tasks. The solution has been designed to

eliminate key bottlenecks and offer new features appropriate to apparel and

retailing. It is running on state of the art data centers on highly secure and

reliable platforms across stores and warehouses spread across the country, in a

distributed computing environment.

Project Specs
Business problem:

ITC required a consolidated retail solution that would be nimble and also

must be able to anticipate more often than to react

IT solution: Deployment of Project One that is not just an ERP solution

but also aids in SCM, CRM, etc

Impact:Internal efficiency gains & improvement in sell through

Implementation partner:

Groupsoft Technologies, ITC Infotech



Prabir Sengupta,
VP Finance &

IT, LBRD

This has enabled Stock visibility across supply chain from vendor to shelf;

optimize inventory levels for savings on interest cost and improved ROI,

efficient inventory management and control; allow for better handling of

customer returns, order tracking and loyalty points management, etc. The

solution uses predator and Movex (core transaction processing system) for

information management. IBM i-Series server is used for Movex ERP while

Microsoft platform was chosen for other applications. All the Web Servers, PAS

server, AD Server & BPW server are based on MS Windows 2003. DB2 is the database

for Movex while MS SQL Servers are used for rest of the application.

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