Kusumgar Corporates, a player in the technical textiles space in India, has chosen IBM's Smart Business solution to help it consistently meet the stringent quality standards that govern the technical textile industry.

Kusumgar Corporates, a mid-sized company with 200 employees, manufactures a variety of military, industrial, geosynthetics and recreational fabrics. Kusumgar maintains a lean IT staff and sought an enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution that it could easily manage and maintain. The company selected IBM Smart Business running Infinite’s Textile Integrated Manufacturing (TIM) ERP application to allow Kusumgar to focus on its business while IT works almost invisibly in the background.

The Smart Business platform includes access to an online community and marketplace, Web-delivered collaborative services, managed security and hosted backup and recovery, and a single point of contact for service and support. TIM is a plug-and-play ERP system designed specifically for apparel and textile companies. TIM manages the entire order cycle, from acceptance and entry to invoicing, requiring minimal configuration and customisation. When TIM is matched with IBM Smart Business, clients like Kusumgar can implement a complete ERP solution in just a few weeks.

"Kusumgar chose to run TIM on Smart Business because it would be simple to procure, install and maintain," said Siddharth Kusumgar, president, Kusumgar Corporates. "Now we have a complete, low-cost, integrated infrastructure that we expect to provide us a low total cost of ownership while supporting all of our business needs," he added.