Indiantelevision.com Team

(31 August 2007 7:38 pm)

MUMBAI: Food distribution and logistics company Radhakrishna Foodland has won the SAP ACE 2007 award for customer excellence in the retail segment for best retail implementation.

Out of the 100 nominations received in this category, Radhakrishna Foodland beat Reliance Retail, Trent and Vishal Mega Mart to emerge as the winner.

Radhakrishna Foodland chairman and managing director Raju Shete said, "At Radhakrishna Foodland, Information Technology Management (ITM) is central to a core strategy of providing differentiated value to customers and enabling their business growth. The innovative usage of IT in our operations has helped us develop an effective delivery culture across geographies. We are therefore extremely delighted to be ranked among the India's most admired enterprise in the retail sector implementation."

The Radhakrishna Group also has a front end presence in retail through Foodland Fresh, a neighbourhood food and grocery retail brand with a presence across 34 locations in Mumbai.

The evaluation process consisted of four stages: evaluations of completed nomination forms, telecons after short listing of the projects, site visit to validate claimed business impacts and innovations and final awardees by specially chosen jury panel, states an official release.

The parameters on which the implementation was judged included adherence to the project schedule, return on investment, unique features or innovations in the project, specific business impacts and critical success factors of the project.

The other winners in various categories were Larsen and Toubro, Times of India, Infosys, Indian Oil, Jet Airways Asian Paints, Mahindra and Mahindra, Ranbaxy India, Videocon, Reliance Telecommunications, TVS Motors and others.

The jury panel this year comprised of Subhiksha Trading Services MD R. Subramanian, TVS group IT Advisors Venkat Rajan, ONGC CIO T Ravindran, RPG VP and group CIO Amit Mukherjee, IIM Bangalore ERP Center of Excellence head Dr Krishna Sundar, and SAP Indian sub-continent president and CEO Ranjan Das.

SAP ACE 2007 is an annual award series to recognize and reward implementations of SAP solutions in India. All the SAP projects that went live in 2006 qualified for SAP ACE 2007.