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BIS (Bharatiya Information Systems)
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M/s
Bhartiya International Limited
is a major player in the International leather apparel
trade. With Corporate Office in New Delhi, India and the
state-of-the-art centers for fashion research and development
in Europe and US, Bhartiya has its own marketing network
spread across the globe. It has manufacturing centres and
factories in Bangalore, Chennai and China. Bhartiya has been
bagging No.1 award for Best exporter of Leather Garments from
Council of Leather Exports, Government of India. It is also
ranked among the 25 fastest growing companies in India
(Business World, May 2002).
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Zillion offered customized Enterprise solution as per the
requirements of Bhartiya. Responsibility included all the
stages of software life cycle like
- Business analysis and Conceptualization
- Design, development and testing
- Training as well as maintaining solutions
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In December 2000,
Zillion provided a customized Enterprise Solution which
was code named as BIS 1.0 – (Bhartiya Information
Systems). Built
over Zillion’s Business Solutions Framework, BIS
1.0 had Merchandising, Materials Management and Production
modules customized as per the needs of Bhartiya. It was
implemented at Gottigere Factory in Bangalore. It showed
impressive results.
Encouraged by the success of BIS 1.0, in 2001,
Bhartiya decided to expand the scope of BIS and to implement
in all Indian Branches.
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Zillion had few
challenges before it
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Providing User Friendly software
– which could be easily used by employees with minimum
education.
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Flexibility
requirements - to address a whole variety of Business
situations in the ever changing Fashion Industry
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Cost-effective Data Interchanging requirements
– requirement to keep communication transaction costs at
a minimum without going in for expensive VPN or leased
lines or VSAT connections.
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Zillion provided BIS
2.0, a Distributed Enterprise Solution running at
several branches concurrently and enabling Head Office to
control operations at its branches.
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Following are the
modules of BIS 2.0.
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User
Access Management
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Marketing
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Merchandising
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Inventory
(Raw materials, Leather, Submaterials, Semi-finished and
Finished Garments, Miscellaneous)
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Procurement
and Distribution
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Production
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Shipping
and Exports Documentation
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Receivables
and Incentives
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Payments
and Receipts
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Data Synchronization
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This solution is running live in Bhartiya International Ltd,
Bangalore from December 2000. It has contributed to Bhartiya
International Ltd, Bangalore in terms of
- Right information availability to the right people at
the right time
- Better management of customer expectations
- Strengthening of procurement process
- Increased accountability
- Attractive enhanced productivity (Figures would be made
available on request)
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Technology Used
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- ASP.NET based front-end
- C# and VB.NET based Business Layer
- Window/Web Services for background tasks / monitoring
- XML for data interchange/interfacing
- Active Reports as a reporting tool
- MS SQL Server 2000 / Oracle 9i
- Off-line Data Sync protocols for data exchange across HO and factories
at lower transaction costs.
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deliver state-of-the art, scaleable, maintainable, high
quality software solutions through consistent adherence to
well established quality system with focus on improved returns
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