Mohani Tea reports increased supply chain efficiencies with Microsoft Cloud

NEW DELHI: Mohani Tea, a leading tea manufacturer, has admitted that the company has achieved rapid business growth, faster procurement and supply chain efficiency with the adoption of Microsoft cloud solutions including Microsoft Office 365.

The twenty-year-old company says it has undergone a transition with its entire raw material purchasing and product distribution management processes to Microsoft cloud. At the end of the first 12 months, the company saw a fivefold improvement of its procurement cycle time.

For Mohani Tea, the traditional method of procuring raw tea leaves from government auctions was a slow and complicated process. It involved physical transfer of sensitive documents related to bidding, compliance and purchase closures between its offices and auction locations spread across a wide geographical area. As a result, a typical transaction would take up to four days to close. By moving the entire process to Office 365 platform it was able to share all required documents and bids in a secure, online format while adhering to all internal and industry compliance norms. This brought down the typical procurement period from 3 days down to few hours.

Mohani has improved collaboration across their offices, procurement centers in Assam, blending and testing facilities in Noida and marketing and dispatch offices in Kolkata and Kanpur and a countrywide distribution network comprising of over one thousand distributors and three lakh retailers. The company improved workflow management, reduced operational risk and improved its productivity significantly while optimizing costs.

Pentacle, a Microsoft partner, is Mohani Tea’s trusted technology advisor in helping them plan, deploy and manage Microsoft Cloud solutions. Along with design and implementation, Pentacle worked to create a secure infrastructure to protect Mohani Tea’s valuable IP and sensitive documents. Pentacle also created learning sessions for Mohani Tea’s employees to use Office 365 for collaboration and productivity.