VIP INDUSTRIES

Preparing for global growth withefficient digital business processes.
VIP Industries knew that a lean and efficient approachto distribution would be key to maintain its fast rate ofexpansion. To accelerate its warehouse management
processes during peak retail periods, VIP Industries has
switched to digital workflows running on a high-performance
hyperconverged infrastructure from Lenovo and Nutanix,
powered by 2nd gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors.

Since it was founded in 1971 in Mumbai, India, VIP Industries hasgrown to become one of Asia’s leading manufacturers of travelbags, with more than 100 million units sold worldwide.
Managing a portfolio of luggage brands including VIP,
Aristocrat, Alfa, Footloose, Skybags and Carlton, the company
goes to market via its own chain of stores.

Vineet Agarwal, Head of IT Infrastructure at VIP Industries,
takes up the story: “Like many leading retailers, we haveembarked on a far-reaching digital transformation initiative.
As a first step on that journey, we integrated our operations
from end-to-end using digital business processes.”

Growth goals

Next, VIP Industries turned its attention to its distribution
centers in India. In the past, the company relied on a legacy
system to manage inventory and dispatch orders to its retail
network. During peak periods such as month-end and major
retail holidays, this system made it difficult for warehouseteams to meet their service-level targets.

Through its constant focus on product quality, VIP Industries
has driven significant growth, creating new business
imperatives for the company. In addition to ramping up its
manufacturing, the company sought to improve the accuracyof its demand forecasts. The aim was to optimize its productionplans to ensure that it could deliver the right quantity of eachproduct at the right time to capture every sales opportunity.

Removing bottlenecks

In response, VIP Industries decided to replace the legacy
system with a digital warehouse management solution. The
new application would enable warehouse personnel to rapidly
scan goods in and out using hand-held barcode readers.
“Previously, we operated a distributed, heterogeneous x86
landscape for our line-of-business applications, but we knewthat this platform would be unable to deliver the low latency
we needed for the new warehouse management solution,”comments Agarwal. “Instead, we targeted a new,high-performance infrastructure.”

Why Lenovo? Dependable performance andultra-low latency

After evaluating proposals from a number of leading IT
vendors, VIP Industries selected an all-flash hyperconverged
infrastructure solution from Lenovo and Nutanix. Based onfour Lenovo ThinkAgile HX3320 appliances, each equippedwith two Intel® Xeon® Silver 4215 eight-core processors, andtwo Lenovo ThinkSystem NE1032T RackSwitch switches, thenew platform is virtualized with Nutanix Enterprise Cloud andmanaged using Nutanix Prism and Lenovo XClarity.
“In addition to implementing the warehouse management
system, we wanted to migrate a number of other satellite
applications to the new hyperconverged platform,” explains
Agarwal. “These applications included business intelligence andanalytics tools, as well as a specialist goods and service taxes
reporting solution to meet the digital business requirements of
the Indian government.”
He continues: “Of all the solutions we considered, we felt that
the Lenovo and Nutanix offering delivered the best
performance, technology and support.”

He continues: “We were already using Lenovo solutions in otherparts of the business, so we knew we could count on thequality of their solutions. And because the ThinkAgile HX
platform features 2nd gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, weknew that it would deliver the high levels of performance thatwe needed.”Seamless deployment

Working together with Lenovo Deployment Services andLenovo Partner Pentagon Systems and Services, VIP Industries
deployed the new hyperconverged infrastructure to a
co-location data center in India.
“This was one of the smoothest IT deployments I’ve ever been
involved with, and we were delighted with the close andeffective collaboration between Lenovo and Pentagon Systemsand Services,” adds Agarwal. “After just two days, our newThinkAgile HX platform was live and ready for production
workloads—an outstanding result.”

Transforming the businessWith a hyperconverged infrastructure at the foundation of its
digital transformation initiative, VIP Industries has gained theperformance, availability and scalability to switch its warehousemanagement processes to the digital channel.
“Our warehouse teams can now rapidly track, manage anddispatch our inventory using barcode scanners and tablet
devices,” comments Agarwal. “Thanks to the ThinkAgile HX
solution, we can eliminate the risk of our warehouses becoming
a bottleneck as the business continues to grow.”
By using Nutanix Prism and Lenovo XClarity to orchestrate its
hyperconverged infrastructure, VIP Industries is making
significant time-savings on IT management and maintenancecompared to the previous x86 environment.

“Our hyperconverged infrastructure is extremely easy tomanage, and the performance and reliability of the platform
have met and exceeded all of our initial expectations,”
says Agarwal.
He concludes: “At VIP Industries, we see that digitaltransformation is a prerequisite for continued businessexpansion. Thanks to our hyperconverged infrastructure fromLenovo and Nutanix, we have a platform that will support ourgrowth ambitions for years to come.”“Thanks to our hyperconverged
infrastructure from Lenovo andNutanix, we have a platform thatwill support our growth ambitions
for years to come.”– Vineet Agarwal, Head of IT Infrastructure, VIP Industries

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