Tanaashi, through their product “enterprise trackor” has helped Laxmi Publications manage and streamline their Book Production Process. Through this application, they are able to control costs of paper & book production & status of orders.
Laxmi Publications is a privately held publishing company headquartered in New Delhi, India. Since its inception in 1974, it has grown tremendously as one of the leading publishers of Engineering, Computers, College, School (CBSE Board) and Children books in India and abroad. It has following subsidiaries and imprints through which it caters to different niches of educational and professional books market.
Domestic:
Having sold more than 30 million books to more than 20 million students, Laxmi Publications has helped in shaping the future of many meritorious students. With presence all over the country, 11 branch offices in major cities and access to over 2500 book retailing outlets, they have a strong distribution network. Their head office is in New Delhi and branch offices in Bangalore, Chennai, Cochin, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Jalandhar, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Patna and Ranchi.
International:
Directly and indirectly, they export books to various countries all over the world¾Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Mauritius, Philippines, South Africa, Pakistan, the Middle East, the United Kingdom, Tunisia, Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Zimbabwe and various other African countries.
The Requirement
They had operational issues in:
- Controlling paper purchase and inventory which forms 70% of their purchases .
- Controlling and monitoring book costs / unit.
- Monitoring the status of book while in production.
- Production related analysis of the data.
The Solution
In words of Mr. Saurabh Gupta – MD Laxmi Publications – ““Tanaashi has helped us in putting controls in our business processes through their application “enterprise trackor”.Now, we are tracking and monitoring paper purchases and the book printing orders thus giving us better visibility of our paper stocks and book costing.
The approach adopted by Tanaashi team was very customer centric and they were able to understand our requirements and deliver as per them. We wish them success in all future ventures.”
