Celkon: Building Tech Savvy Distribution

Solution Requirement

Celkon empowers consumers by making technology affordable to lower-income individuals. To achieve this, every part of the organization must be highly productive, cost-efficient, and able to collaborate to create and deliver products at the lowest cost and best quality. Timeliness and accuracy of information is critical for success.

Celkon wanted to create a best-in-industry solution that would make its entire distribution channel highly cost-effective and efficient. It had to be very fast and able to pull and synchronize data from different sources to generate meaningful reporting and analytics.

“In today's competitive environment highly optimized distribution networks are crucial for OEMs and can have a significant impact on the business itself,” says Murli Retineni, Director, Celkon.

Solution Deployment

SAP Cloud Platform was chosen because of its performance, integration, and analytical capabilities. Fully responsive Web applications and mobile apps were created to provide accurate and timely information. The platform consisting of a set of applications was created by 2i Solutions

Consulting Services to streamline the process in the company’s supply chain and distributing network. 2i Solution is a Canadian consulting company with strong capabilities across SAP’s innovation areas including SAP cloud platform.

Solution Benefits

• Strong integration abilities provided by SAP Cloud Platform to integrate with any SAP or non-SAP application

• Better utilization of user times and better system adaptation with the high-performance SAP HANA database

• Flexibility to handle sudden demand surges and so on with a cloud model

• Celkon has reduced the manpower needed to capture and process data from different sources by 80% and improved system performance by more than 60%. It has also increased the accuracy of sales forecasting to reduce carrying costs and increase order fulfilment.

• Eliminate duplicate transactions and timely data flow from backend systems to channel systems, thus improving the timeliness, coverage and accuracy of information.