Asian Paints

Asian Paints is India’s largest paint company and ranked among the top ten decorative coatings companies in the world with a turnover of more than USD one billion.

“Informatica is playing a vital role in enabling Asian Paints’ analytical decisions, based on a consolidated and trusted view of product costing data.”

Aashish Kshetry

Systems General Manager, Asian Paints

Business Need

Respond more quickly to market change.

Analyze cost data and increase efficiency.

Challenges

Product costing process involved significant manual intervention, including determining the SKU costs of the company’s paint products, raw material and packing material prices.
Find a solution to quickly and accurately access and integrate raw material, bill of materials and other data—from any source.

If a mistake was made and the cost output was wrong, the team had to start all over again.

Solutions & Results

Enabled the company to respond more quickly to market price changes, thereby increasing competitiveness.
Decreased costs by integrating and delivering data at the right time, in the right format.
Enabled product costs to be calculated simultaneously across all manufacturing plants, thereby boosting productivity and efficiency.

Reduced time required to run quarterly product costing model from 24 hours to 20 minutes.
Drove better research, development and marketing decisions based on consolidated, trusted view of pricing data.
Allowed Asian Paints to run product costing simultaneously and preserve/archive multiple scenarios across business units: Decorative, Industrial and Automotive.