BY :

RISHABH
SACHDEVA
BIIB(09-11)

COMPANY PROFILE
Kansai Nerolac Paints Ltd is a subsidiary of
Japan based Kansai Paint Company Limited,
which is one of the top ten coating companies in
the world.
It is the second largest coating company in India
and market leader in Industrial Coatings.
Turnover of $350 million.

MAJOR DIVSIONS :
1. INDUSTRIAL PAINTS DIVISION MAJOR SUPPLY T O
AUTOMOBILE COMPANIES

2. DECORATIVE PAINTS DIVISION INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR

PAINT APPLICATIONS

MARKET LEADER IN INDUSTRIAL PAITNS WITH MARKET SAHRE

CLOSE TO 70%.
NUMBER OF SKUs A TOTAL OF 10,000; ACTIVE 3000.

PRODUCT LINE

Decorative Paints

Automotive Coatings

General Industrial Coatings

High Performance Coatings

Powder Coatings

Speciality Coatings

REVOLUTIONARY CHANGES IN
MANAGEMENT
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1920 established as Gahagan Paints and Varnish Co. Ltd.

in Mumbai.
1957 popularised as Goodlass Nerolac PVT. LTD
1976 Goodlass Nerolac Paints Ltd. became a part of the
Tata Forbes Group.
1983: Goodlass Nerolac Paints Ltd. Strengthened itself
by entering in technical collaborated with Kansai Paint
Co. Ltd, Japan and Nihon Tokushu Toryo Co. Ltd, Japan.
1999: Kansai Paint Co. Ltd, Japan took over the entire
stake of Tata Forbes group and thus GNP became wholly
owned subsidiary of Kansai Paint Company Ltd.

ISSUES WITH SUPPLY CHAIN

Lack of communication between dealers &
depots.
Stock outs & piling up of inventory.
Manual handling of CPD i.e. central planning
depot.
Lack of product availability & loss of sales.
Large number of skus 400-500.
Lack of vendor management.
Use of transaction based legacy system (UNIX
Cobol system)

FLOWCHART OF THE SUPPLY CHAIN SHOWING AREAS OF PROBLEM

NEED BASED ON CRITICAL PAIN AREAS

TECHNOLOGICAL
IMPLEMENTATION
SAP application SAP Advanced Planning and
Optimising (APO) 3.1
SAP Supply Chain
SAP Business intelligence
Supported portals like Dealer portals , Vendor
portals etc.
Leased lines and VSAT
SAS Data Warehousing Solution.

PROCESSES FOR A RESPONSIVE SUPPLY CHAIN

IMPLEMENTING SAP SCM

SAP CONTINUED

DERIVED BENEFITS(QUANTITATIVE)

BENEFITS REDUCTION IN FG INVENTORY

BENEFITS REDUCTION IN LOSS OF SALE

DERIVED BENEFITS(QUALITATIVE)

PATH TO VALUE REALIZATION

CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS

THE WAY FORWARD FOR NEROLAC :-

THE NEW SAP ARCHITECTURE :