IFS deal to supply and service Singer Pakistan

IFS Sri Lanka, the global enterprise applications company, managed to strike a deal with Singer Pakistan, with an investment of US$ 500,000 making it one of the one of the largest single investments in Singer Pakistan in its entire history of over a century, while Sri Lanka, has recorded this as one of the largest software exports.

With this project Singer South Asia would have over 1,000 users, all connected on a Web based ERP solution, one of the largest projects in the region.

"This is an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution, which is a merger of global ERP best practices and Singer company best practices into one system, enabling Singer Pakistan to respond quickly to market changes," Jayantha De Silva, Vice President, IFS Asia Pacific said, explaining that this system facilitates resources to be used in a more agile way to accomplish superior business performance and competitive advantage.

He said that the ERP information system integrates all manufacturing and related applications for the company and supports it by multi-module application software that help a manufacturer or other business manage the important parts of its business, including product planning, parts purchasing, maintaining inventories, interacting with suppliers, providing customer service, and tracking orders.

"This system would be deployed to 153 shops dispersed all over the country making it one of the only ERP implementation in Pakistan reaching the shops in most urbanised cities as well as the remotest village," he said adding that it is a replication of the success we have had in Singer Sri Lanka where currently over 150 shops all over island use the IFS system for their entire branch operations.