Business analytics software player, SAS announced that Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML) has adopted its SAS Service Parts Optimization solutions to increase the manageability and profitability of their Stock Keeping Units (SKUs). For BEML, the solution was deployed by SAS’s India partner, Vayam Technologies Ltd.

The solution integrates, BEML’s 25 regional depots and more than 70 Products with 210,000 SKUs to manage a vast supply chain and logistics network in India, the Middle East, Africa and Brazil.

On the successful deployment Rajeev Srivastva (Head Technology Division) of BEML said, “As a leader in the heavy earth-moving industry in India, we have always been at the forefront of technology usage. To optimize resources and increase profitability thorough effective and efficient spare parts forecasting, we recognized the need to leverage SAS for our Service Parts Optimization solution. After carefully examining the market, we chose SAS as a solution and Vayam technologies as system integrator to implement the solution and to drive our quest for generating insights and optimize our inventory levels at multiple Locations/SKUs. BEML is performing the user acceptance testing (UAT) on the delivered result. We are expecting around 15% reduction in inventory by 2011.”

Sudipta K. Sen, Regional Director South-East Asia, CEO & MD SAS India commented,“This has been a great win for SAS India in the public sector and we are proud to be assisting BEML in their strategic efforts. SAS is helping BEML analyze complicated inventory data and unearth hidden relationships and patterns in inventory data volumes, thereby helping to minimize its expenditure and optimize its inventory.”