Hyderabad based vCentric Technologies, one of the fastest growing IT/ITES organizations in India, with major focus on SAP today announced, the installation of SAP S/4HANA 1511 On-Premise edition for Vectus Industries Limited across its pan-India operations.
Vectus Industries Limited is India’s leading and fastest growing company for pipes and water storage Solution. They are the pioneer in establishing Blow Moulded Technology as an alternate method to Roto Moulding for large size water storage tanks. The Vectus group of companies has been mounting at an average growth of around 35% year on year, having an overall sales turnover of approx. 500 Crores (75 million USD). Their manufacturing facilities are spread in 12 locations nationwide, offices and depots at 13 locations, with more 1300 employees on board.
Speaking on the successful deployment, a delighted Mr. Ashish Baheti, Managing Director, Vectus Industries Ltd. said, “We are excited with the technological transformation at Vectus. This quantum leap to becoming a future-ready corporate, is in sync with our business vision. Owing to our belief to produce world-class quality products and offerings in the storage and pipe product industry, SAP® S/4HANA ERP shall give us renewed vigor to scale-up across key and critical departments, enabling us for swift growth in our markets in India and for exports.”
The SAP S/4HANA 1511 On-premise edition is a new product and builds the next-generation business suite. Built on the most advanced in-memory platform, the solution has the ability to provide corporate with the tools to make it digital ready and propel themselves for the new-age economy including IoT.
M.V.R. Kumar, CEO, vCentric Technologies, said, “The nuances of such deployment has been quite amazing 
for organization such as Vectus wherein the deployment of S/4HANA has addressed the pain-points of the organization and has helped leverage to the next-level of digital-ready organization.”
Outlining the core advantages, Mr. Manish Sinha, Head IT, Vectus Industries Ltd, said, “The background prior to installation of SAP® S/4HANA was that we had nearly no IT set up, legacy software was about to collapse, no robust IT infrastructure, for the matter of speaking, we had literally start from scratch and we had a lot of streamlining to undertake be it Infra at plants, depot, streamlining legacy software so that team can focus on new implementation. It was a tough uphill challenge to establish having a world-class product to be installed at a regional and local level. We sincerely appreciate the efforts put by vCentric in educating us about S/4HANA, supported and stayed till last with us in achieving this milestone for our organization. We completed in time with limited talent pool, resources- The only thing we did to RECHARGE our team, we had no pitch hitters but focused on scoring one’s and two’s to be in the Game and finally won this.
Further adding he said, “Given the overall thinking was that SAP solutions would only fit well for evolved organizations and not one with those firms that had primarily no IT. Ours was a very unique case. I am today delighted that such a product not only matched up to our needs and desire to scale up but also was extremely competent to deliver in record time within less than 5 months and 24 out of our 28 locations nation-wide going-live simultaneously.”
The ERP installed and supported critical departments at Vectus had the following modules – Stock, Finance, Materials Management, Human Capital Management [HCM], Procurement Plan and Sales &Distribution.
