Leading tea exporter Akbar Brothers aims for full business visibility with IFS

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IFS, the global enterprise applications company, announced that Akbar Brothers Ltd., Sri Lanka’s largest tea exporter, has chosen to invest in new IFS capabilities to support mission-critical business processes, further increase efficiencies, and help drive future growth.

The new IFS enterprise resource management (ERP) capabilities will empower Akbar Brothers Ltd. to consolidate its business processes and provide full visibility in real time for its head office. Drawing on its intuitive and browser-based user experience, staff will be able to work efficiently regardless of location, driving user productivity and performance.

The IFS solution will support all major business processes, including finance, inventory and procurement, auction management, costing, tea blending, packaging, sales, production, quality and shipping as well as seamless integrations to salesforce automation and planning tools.

“We are excited to embark on this journey of digital transformation with IFS, whose technology has been underpinning our operations since 2010,” said Akbar Brothers Director Huzefa Akbarally. “A diversified business such as ours requires robust and user-friendly tools to ensure there is only one version of the truth and that we are using reliable, real-time data for informed decision-making. We look forward to leveraging this business technology platform that will help our company through our next phase of growth.”

IFS Consulting Director South Asia Shouqi Omar added, “We are proud of the continued trust that Akbar Brothers has placed in our people and products. Drawing on our long experience of working with leading companies in the food and beverage industry, we can offer unique support to power complex businesses running multi-site operations empowering data-driven decision-making at all levels with advanced reporting capabilities. Our intuitive user experience ensures better collaboration and quick data capture. Both teams worked together tirelessly to successfully deliver the implementation project which was completed in April.”