6^th Annual Edition

But because the pesticides business is completely different fertilizers, he couldn't merely implement a few new processes into an existing ERP. "The success of the pesticides business depends on extensive batch management and a complex shelf-life control at every stage of operations. A comprehensive reporting system was required to batch-managed inventories,"says Seetharamaiah. So he creatively exploited the business process configurability of SAP to create solutions of the pesticide business. "But for this creative design, it would not have been possible to implement the completely divergent fertilizers and pesticides requirements in a single application side-by-side,"he says. Thanks to these systems the pesticides business was made operational and generated a turnover of Rs 23 crore within 10 months, using with an existing sales force, dealer network, and IT infrastructure as that of the fertilizer business.