Better collaboration among business units enabling quick decision making while addressing demand uncertainties.

Sanyo is a leading player in consumer and commercial electronics market, with more than 170 subsidiaries worldwide. Its companies make a variety of electrical devices and appliances, including industrial and commercial equipment, audio and video equipment, semiconductors, communications equipment, batteries, and home appliances.

Wipro partnered in realizing Sanyo’s objective of enabling quick and efficient decisions making across all the geographies by integrating them over a common platform.

A snapshot of the engagement follows:

	Implantation of SAP R/3 across client’s eight locations
	Enabling a global management information system for the client
	Setting up of an organizational change management framework

In a two phase approach Wipro implemented SAP R/3 in Mandarin, Cantonese and English languages across Sanyo’s locations, while reengineering over 30 business process. The global MIS system enabled common data definitions and standards with standardization of processes models. To smoothen and de-risk the migration from AS400 driven non-standard processes to SAP, Wipro championed organizational change management framework. In the wake of SARS in Hong Kong and Singapore, robust disaster and business continuity planning ascertained go-live on schedule.