Keventer Case Study

Headquartered in Kolkata, Keventer Agro Limited is in the food processing business and offers products across food categories such as packaged food, dairy products, and fresh products. With both franchise and own brands across 90 SKUs, the company has panIndia operations.
  • Customer
  • Products and Services


  • Industry
  • Organization Size
  • Keventer Agro
  • Dynamics 365 Finance Dynamics 365 Supply chain management
  • Consumer Goods
  • Large (1,000 - 9,999 employees)

Objective

Keventer Agro realized the need for centralized and integrated core business functions on a common software infrastructure. Keen to bring homogeneity in processes for all business divisions, Keventer Agro scouted the marketplace for a suitable fit. The FMCG company zeroed in on Microsoft Dynamics 365 for the platform’s ability to effectively blend functionality, inter-adaptability, and scalability without maintenance hiccups.

Solutions

Microsoft Dynamics 365 fits the requirements well, and the bundling of hosting, backup, disaster recovery, and managed services augurs well with our plans for a lean internal IT setup, The aim was to streamline the finance and supply chain functions, smoothen operations, and reduce the software footprint. We managed services platform. Insights from Microsoft’s large partner network and add-on solutions helped bring agility to the company’s widespread operations.

AT A GLANCE

Challenges

  • Higher costs and efforts in daily operations and maintenance.
  • The installation and management of the client software at the company’s widespread geographic operations.
  • Disparate operations led to nonuniformity in processes and impacted reporting and compliance procedures with manually generated statements.

Benefits

  • Built-in compliance, privacy and security features.
  • Cuts down paperwork and is prepared to face IT risks.

For the end-users, the solution has brought in a zero-footprint modern client interface, which is not limited to particular environments. Dynamics365 was a big help during the pandemic years with assured services from Microsoft and the risks of downtime and others mitigated, without any impact to the business.

Sanjay Gupta: Group CFO

BENIFITS

Unified Platform

The company is able to operate on a single platform across all divisions. Dynamics 365 SCM has helped streamline workflows in its supply chain and unified operations and processes.

Automation

Process automation in sales and finance with Dynamics 365 Finance has helped gain efficiency in freight management and reduce costs.

Data Consolidation

Consolidated disparate accounts, central purchase, and inventory management data solutions for all their business units. This helped them visualize data from all their divisions in a more comprehensive manner. Now armed with better insights, they can make quicker and more effective decisions.

Environment Agnostic

Employees can access the platform from anywhere, anytime. This was invaluable for the employees, especially during the pandemic and the company continues to leverage the advantages postpandemic as well. Sanjay Gupta, Group CFO, The solution has brought in a zero-footprint modern client interface, which is not limited to particular environments.