Post by Geethaka Fernando

It has been an exciting journey working with Dipped Products over the past 12 months, driving a series of digital transformation initiatives ranging from a best in class CRM, a digital procurement platform enabling instant payments to farmers, and an IoT sensor-based capabilities across factories. The latest milestone in this journey is the launch of BIDeX – the Manufacturing Execution System (MES) that will enable demand mgt, planning, execution and Quality Control. Manufacturing lies at the heart of DPL’s operations and a modern, integrated, scalable, cloud-based MES was a critical need in strengthening operational resilience and future readiness. This became a reality which was celebrated this week with a go-live ceremony held at Hayleys Head office. The amazing team we had put in a lot of rigour by running over 2,000+ test cases, testing over 40+ performance metrics, and multiple mock migrations — which meant the application went live without any business disruption. I would like to thank our Chairman Mr. Mohan Pandithage, Mr. Sarath Ganegoda and Mr Pushpika Janadeera for their guidance and sponsorship. Many thanks to Indika (Programme Manager), Dushantha (Project Manager), the entire DPL project team, Shirantha and N-able team for their commitment as the delivery partner, Hayleys Group IT and my own team Amanda, Deneize and Vinod for their continuous support. #DigitalTransformation #Manufacturing #MES #HayleysDigitalDNA #Teamwork #Innovation