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Business challenge
To seize greater market share, International Textile Limited (ITL) set out to offer customers the chance to order bespoke goods, and receive their products in minimal time.
Transformation
To bring luxury bath towels to even more washrooms across the globe, ITL is ramping up production – expanding its factories and reaching out to new markets. To serve customers even more rapidly, the company freshened up its SAP ERP applications, migrating to the SAP HANA database running on IBM® Power Systems™.
“We are on a quest for continuous improvement, and IBM and SAP play an important role in our journey.”
—Faraz Ahmed Quddusi, Head of IT, International Textile Limited
Faraz Ahmed Quddusi, Head of IT, International Textile Limited
International Textile Limited gears up for spectacular growth
Solution components
IBM® Power System S824L
IBM PowerVM®
IBM Spectrum Protect™
IBM Storwize® V5030
IBM Systems Lab Services
IBM TS3100
SAP Business Warehouse powered by SAP HANA
SAP ERP powered by SAP HANA
SAP Fiori
SAP HANA
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications
Business benefits:
20% reduction
in lead times means customers get their hands on goods faster
10x faster
reporting drives remarkably low time-to-insight
69% smaller
footprint compared to an equivalent x86 architecture cuts operational costs
Client Name
International Textile Limited
Company Background
Headquartered in Karachi, Pakistan, International Textile Limited (ITL) manufactures and exports towels, bathrobes and bedding. Serving customers in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia and the United Arab Emirates, ITL generates annual revenues of around USD 100 million and produces up to 50 tons of towels every day.
Business challenge
To seize greater market share, International Textile Limited (ITL) set out to offer customers the chance to order bespoke goods, and receive their products in minimal time.
The benefit
Customers receive their orders 20 percent faster; 10x accelerated reporting drives unprecedented insight into sales opportunities, helping ITL grow sales and market share.
Pull Quote
“We are on a quest for continuous improvement, and IBM and SAP play an important role in our journey.”
—Faraz Ahmed Quddusi, Head of IT, International Textile Limited
Solution components
IBM® Power System S824L
IBM PowerVM®
IBM Spectrum Protect™
IBM Storwize® V5030
IBM Systems Lab Services
IBM TS3100
SAP Business Warehouse powered by SAP HANA
SAP ERP powered by SAP HANA
SAP Fiori
SAP HANA
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications
Case study Link
Headquartered in Karachi, Pakistan, International Textile Limited (ITL) manufactures and exports towels, bathrobes and bedding. Serving customers in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia and the United Arab Emirates, ITL generates annual revenues of around USD 100 million and produces up to 50 tons of towels every day.
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