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Sansui Deploys Base Information's ITM
ERP
By Amit
Tripathi
Mumbai, May 25, 2004
Base Information, Mumbai-based ERP vendor,
has outwitted none other than SAP at their own game, at
Sansui India, by clinching a significant ERP deal.
Speaking to CXOtoday, Nilesh Kerkar, IT-Head,
Sansui-India, said, “We initially evaluated SAP ERP as
it was rolled out at our other sister concerns, namely
AKAI and VIDEOCON. But due to enormous implementation
costs we had to decline it and decided to go for Base
Information’s ITM ERP.”
Tilak Raj Mehta,
director, Base Information said, “The price range of our
ERP depends on the business volume and on the number of
locations it is being deployed. Thus, the license
charges of ITM ERP for around 10 users would be
approximately Rs. 8 lacs, whereas a 500 user deployment
would cost Rs. 1.5 crores.”
At Sansui India, the
need was for a customizable and scalable ERP, for
roughly 18 to 20 users. Added Kerkar, “Around 80 to 90%
of the ITM ERP already met our requirements, and the
rest 10 to 20 % were customizable. In addition, the
software and implementation charges together were
minuscule against just the implementation charges for
SAP ERP, that ran into crores.” The ITM ERP is being
deployed by Base Information themselves for the head
office and 25 locations through out the country since
last six months.
The ERP interacts with an
Oracle 9.2 database and is supported by IBM AIX servers.
ITM ERP suite has distinct modules covering sales and
distribution management, materials, manufacturing, human
resource management, payroll, and finance and accounts.
SAP India when contacted for comments denied
being evaluated by Sansui. Nagraj Bhargava, director
marketing & alliances, SAP India, said, “SAP-India
has not been approached by Sansui for either evaluation
or discussion for the same. Had they contacted us we
would have been delighted to meet their requirements.”
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