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Radhkrishna Foodland bags SAP ACE 2007- Awards for Customer Excellence

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Radhakrishna Foodland, a leading food distribution & logistics company with has won the SAP ACE 2007 Awards for Customer Excellence. Radhakrishna Foodland won this coveted annual award in the Retail segment for Best Retail implementation.

Radhakrishna Foodland Pvt. Ltd. is a Radhakrishna Group company. Sanjay Ghone, Sumeet Kolhatkar and Jayawant Harkare received the award on behalf of Radhakrishna Foodland from Mr. Henning Kagermann, CEO & President SAP AG and Mr.Ranjan Das, CEO, SAP India subcontinent, in a glittering ceremony titled “Celebrating Customer Success” in New Delhi.

Acknowledging the award, Raju Sheté, Chairman and Managing Director, Radhakrishna Foodland Pvt Ltd 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 leading neighborhood food and grocery retail brand with a presence across 34 locations in Mumbai.

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. There were about 100 nominations received by SAP. Radhakrishna Foodland won this award over three other nominees in this category viz. Reliance Retail, Trent and Vishal Mega Mart.

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

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