Client : Indian subsidiary of a global FMCG firm

The customer is the Indian subsidiary and a member of a large global Anglo-Dutch Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) conglomerate. The client is a market leader in many of its product lines, which include Tea, Coffee, Instant Coffee, Foods and Spices. The company's corporate office is located at Bangalore with regional offices in various places across the country. The client maintains its market leadership position by means of a strong Dealer/Distributor network.

The Logistics group of the client, based at the corporate office, re-ceives sales forecast periodically from all the Area sales of-fices & Regional sales offices. The group also processes these data to give out Production Plans, Receipt Plans and the Dispatch Plans to all the factories.

DPS is a menu driven on-line system implemented at the various factories of the client. The main objective of the system is to opti-mize the dispatches at the factories.

At the factories, depending on the plans from logistics, daily plans are generated by the DPS and accordingly products are produced and dispatched. Besides daily plans, DPS generates dispatch related documents such as the Gate Pass and Stock Transfer Note. The system also generates MIS reports and ports data to the other systems installed at various offices of the client, as well as its Logistics group.

The turnkey computerization of DPS was carried out by VAST. The system was designed using a CASE tool, with the project planned and managed using a PC based Project Management package.