Hindalco Industries Limited

The Company: About Hindalco Industries Limited

FROM PILOT TO POWERHOUSE: HINDALCO SCALES MANUFACTURING 700X WITH QAD ADAPTIVE ERP

Hindalco Industries Limited, the metals flagship of the Aditya Birla Group, is a global leader in aluminum and copper. Headquartered in Mumbai, India, the company operates a fully integrated value chain that spans bauxite mining, alumina refining, coal mining, power generation, smelting, rolling, extrusion and foils. With operations across India and a footprint in nine countries, Hindalco ranks among the world’s top aluminum producers.

Hindalco recently established a new manufacturing unit in Pune focused on producing aluminum battery enclosures and other specialized components. As part of this journey, Hindalco turned to QAD, whose experience in automotive manufacturing made it a natural partner to support the company’s new operations.

The Situation: Traceability and Inventory Accuracy

HINDALCO REQUIRES NEW LEVELS OF VISIBILITY AND CONTROL

The Pune facility needed to meet the demanding requirements of automotive customers, including strict expectations for scheduling, traceability and inventory accuracy. This represented a shift from Hindalco’s other business units and brought new operational challenges.

To be successful in the automotive sector, Hindalco needed a solution purpose-built for automotive – one that could support just-in-time manufacturing, provide end-to-end visibility and work effectively alongside its broader enterprise solutions.

QAD was chosen for the same.

The Solution: QAD Adaptive

HINDALCO IMPLEMENTS QAD ADAPTIVE ERP IN PHASES TO SUPPORT PUNE OPERATIONS

Hindalco deployed QAD Adaptive ERP at the Pune facility using a phased approach designed to support both immediate plant-level needs and alignment with corporate systems.

QAD was well suited to Hindalco’s requirements, offering capabilities designed to support automotive manufacturing like multi time invoicing for a single product and customer in a day and track-and-trace.

The Results: QAD Adaptive Implementation Benefits

Within a very short period, the Pune plant scaled production to a remarkably new level. This rapid growth required a system capable of supporting just-in-time delivery, rigorous process discipline and high levels of traceability.

QAD Adaptive ERP provided Hindalco with reliable track-and-trace capabilities, supporting QR code-based material movements and customer-specific invoicing requirements.

At the same time, QAD reduced Hindalco’s reliance on multiple platforms and manual workarounds. The solution was configured so that during any kind of maintenance window of the primary ERP also the operations will continue through QAD. The Boomi integration in batch mode, meanwhile, ensured Hindalco has a single source of truth for production, backed by enterprise-level visibility through its corporate ERP platform.