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Tata Steel selects i2 to improve productivity
By siliconindia staff writer
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Friday, 13 May 2005, 19:30 IST
PHOENIX:i2 Technologies, Inc., a provider of demand-driven supply chain solutions designed to enable business agility, today announced that Tata Steel, Asia's first and India's largest integrated private sector steel company, has selected solutions from i2 to help improve productivity and enhance customer service for their Flat Product Business.
Tata Steel chose i2 with two goals in mind: to improve productivity through the best possible use of its assets, and to enhance customer satisfaction by identifying and delivering products according to the needs of its specific customers. Tata Steel's products include hot and cold rolled coils and sheets, galvanized sheets, tubes, wire rods, construction re-bars, rings and bearings. During fiscal 2004-2005, Tata Steel produced 4.11 million tons of saleable steel, an all-time record for the company. Tata Steel serves companies in the automotive, distribution and made-to-order industries.
To help meet those goals, Tata Steel selected i2's Sales and Operations Management Workflow - which includes products such as i2 Demand Manager, Master Planning, Profit Optimization and Demand Fulfillment - and additional i2 solutions such as i2 Factory Planner, Material Allocator, Inventory Optimization and Transportation Planner.
"Through a strategic opportunity assessment, i2 demonstrated that they understood our business and the challenges we face," said Dr. T. Mukherjee, deputy-managing director (Steel), Tata Steel. "i2 offers world-class solutions and industry best practices knowledge that we believe can help us increase supply chain responsiveness through reduced manufacturing lead time, which in turn can lead to improved performance delivery and increased customer satisfaction. We are looking to do all of these things while reducing manufacturing costs and still strategically growing our business, and believe that i2 is the right partner to help us reach that objective."
