Hindustan Coca Cola Streamlines its Procurement Platform with SCH Supplier

Hindustan Coca-Cola is one of the leading beverage companies of India that manufactures, packages, sells and distributes beverages. To fulfil its goal for customer satisfaction, HCCB needed to transform its procurement function. Using SCH Supplier, a centralized digital platform to enable procurement best practices, it consolidated localized purchasing capabilities and developed strategic and streamlined negotiating and buying processes. Now, the procurement team can ensure that managers, buyers, and internal customers all have the right information and technology to perform their responsibilities efficiently and effectively.

HCCB needed to transform its procurement function. Using SCH Supplier, a centralized digital platform to enable procurement best practices, it consolidated localized purchasing capabilities and developed strategic and streamlined negotiating and buying processes. Now, the procurement team can ensure that managers, buyers, and internal customers all have the right information and technology to perform their responsibilities efficiently and effectively.

Business Challenges

  • To standardize streamline sourcing and procurement processes for efficiency and effective gains.
  • To design a system that is scalable and user-friendly keeping in mind the expansion plans and potential supplier base.
  • Overall operating costs and make procurement operations more efficient
  • Gain global visibility into global procurement activity
  • Identify areas for cost reduction

Implementation of SCH Supplier

  • Centralized, comprehensive platform for managing all procurement activity, from strategic sourcing to invoicing
  • A single, integrated system provides the scalability to support additional business functions
  • Ability to easily onboard and engage with suppliers
  • Customizable approval workflows to reduce the risk of unconventional spend.
  • Integration with SAP

Benefits

  • Streamlined negotiations and purchasing functions, freeing buyers for more-strategic tasks such as analysing markets, suppliers, and options
  • Fast and smooth integration with existing SAP solutions for a fluid and rapid implementation
  • More reliable, flexible, and standardized procurement processes for internal customers
  • Easier access to suppliers and related data
  • Better data and insights for managers, resulting in better budget control and fewer cost overruns

Surya Prakash (General manager customer success)

A thought leader, highly experienced in SAP Solution and Digital transformation client engagements on supply chain digital platform, Key account management. SP is self driven, excelling in the team management, sales, and client relationships. His belief in self learning and doing business consulting , development has lead to good customer success that has shaped him to be an adapter leader in conducting business across various geographies.

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Jayanthi Sridhar (Head of marketing)

As the Head of Marketing at EIM Solutions, Jayanthi has over 15 years of experience in sales and marketing and account management, with a proven track record of generating new business opportunities, increasing revenue, and enhancing customer satisfaction.

Sruthi Bobbili (Head- Human Resources & Operations)

Sruthi is an HR professional, supporting the senior leadership team to enable the translation of business strategy into HR initiatives that champion performance, productivity, and employee engagement while also ensuring the HR function transforms business objectives into actionable and value adding goals.

Nagarathna Muthurayappa (Associate Vice President)

Nagarathna, a versatile project manager has over 10 years of experience in SAP implementations, rollouts, upgrades support projects and delivery management. She is skilled in handling the complete implementation and is conversant with all aspects of project management.

Mahesh Kumar (Associate Vice President)

Brings in a rich expertise in SAP BW, BPC and functional experience and is involved in various projects for consulting, upgrade, rollout, support/Maintenance projects.

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Soumyojit Sen (CTO and Product Director )

With over 15 years of experience in innovation and new products, his passion lies in cracking new technologies and implementing new ideas. Soumyojit Sen always endeavours to transform new ideas into products and to know, learn, use, innovate, improve, and create a product with special focus on Open Source Mobile Framework like UI and Swings.

Kamalnath M (Head-Product Management)

Kamalnath is a Certified PMP consultant having 19+ years of experience focused on Implementation, Training, Solution Architecting, Project management.

Rangarajan Sampath (Director – Business Solutions)

He is a business processes and SAP expert with over 23 years of experience. He has worked in a variety of roles including Solution Architecture, Project Management, Landscape Planning and Rollout Planning as well as SAP Functional roles including Integration Manager, Project Lead and Consultant.

Muthusamy P (Chief Business Consulting Officer)

Muthusamy P is an experienced solution and development professional with over 17 years of SAP functional experience. He has handled large landscape projects in SAP ECC, S4H, IS-Retail, IS-AFS, Process Industry and Banking Sector.

Karthikeyan V (Senior Vice President)

Karthikeyan is a SAP certified Technology professional with over 15 years of experience in delivery. His strengths lie in technical development, SAP IS Retail, CRM, APO_BW, PM and SAP Enterprise Portal.

Sakthivel M (Vice President)

Sakthivel Narasimhan, has 20 years of SAP experience and has handled multiple projects roles as a project manager, track lead, module lead, and integration lead and solution architect.
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Onkar Sangoram (Joint CEO)

Onkar Sangoram, Joint CEO, Customer success has over 18 years of SAP experience with strong foundation in SAP consulting and delivery. Through his expert thought leadership and architectural guidance to customers as well as the internal team, he brings in an enviable list of clientele to SCH.

Param R (Director and Joint CEO)

Param R, a SAP Certified Technical Architect with 19+ years of experience in SAP BI, BODS, BO, HANA, and SAP Basis Administration. He heads Business Planning, Finance and Operations for SCH.

Rajagopalan Babu (Managing Director)

Rajagopalan Babu has over 30 years of experience across Engineering and IT services companies. He has managed multiple roles and was associated with growth phase of SAP and Ariba. He has architectured several solutions and has a deep understanding of the capabilities of these platforms. He has implemented several business integration projects for customers in India and abroad during his stint with SAP and Ariba.