Group technology agenda for a home-fabrics business

Since November 2025 Dr. Kannan Ramasamy has led technology for manufacturing, retail, distribution and international operations. This profile combines the supplied career material with dated programme reviews; live delivery, UAT, pilots and roadmap work are identified separately.

Role
Chief Information Officer
Since
November 2025
Location
Mumbai, India
Works with
MD, CFO, CHRO, plant leadership

Mandate

Decide, with the executive team and plant leaders, which SAP, automation, robotics and digital-factory initiatives to fund and in what order, then deliver them.

The portfolio combines live delivery with clearly identified proofs of concept and roadmap items. Nothing that changes a transaction in SAP goes live until it has passed evaluation, approval controls and user acceptance testing.

Live · recorded go-live 27 March 2026

Featured: supplier-invoice automation

Built on SAP and Microsoft Power Platform. This public summary intentionally focuses on governance and business value rather than internal architecture.

Controlled workflow

  • Supplier invoices are captured and their data extracted with AI assistance.
  • Users validate extracted information before it reaches SAP.
  • Approved records move through governed integration, audit and user-acceptance controls.

Planned progression

  • Vendor-ageing and budget visibility.
  • Controlled payment-selection approvals and reconciliation.
  • Management reporting from governed finance data.

Broader enterprise delivery

Business applications & operational intelligence

Finance and supply chain

FI-CO enhancements, inventory and ageing reports, goods-receipt controls, supplier collaboration and reviewed payment workflows.

Production and analytics

Production planning reports, order visibility, stock and yarn reporting, Tableau-to-Power BI migration and ERP-connected data platforms.

People and customer operations

Employee onboarding, CRM integration, price lookup, costing, quotations and recurring customer communication.

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Programme portfolio

Each programme is assessed against a business case before it moves from evaluation to delivery.

In delivery

SAP S/4HANA improvement

Business-process improvements across finance, sales, materials and production, with governed phase planning.

Proof of concept

AI vision fabric inspection

Evaluation of computer vision, Industrial IoT and edge computing for fabric-quality use cases.

Live invoice scope + further workstreams

AI process automation

Controlled AI, RPA and low-code use cases across manufacturing, supply chain, order-to-cash, finance and distribution.

Evaluation

Smart factory and robotics

MES, APS, AGV, AMR, cobot and humanoid use cases assessed against safety, throughput and return.

Proof of concept

Enterprise copilots

Governed agent use cases across SAP, CRM and HR using Microsoft Copilot Studio and Azure AI.

Roadmap

Data platform

A governed reporting and AI-ready data architecture spanning SAP and Microsoft data services.

Proof of concept

Product intelligence

AI-assisted moodboards, product recommendations, image tagging and natural-language discovery.

Roadmap

Asset management and IoT

SAP PM/EAM process maturity, preventive maintenance and condition-monitoring opportunities.

Research and evaluation

Digital twins and traceability

Manufacturing simulation, Unity 3D learning experiences and blockchain-enabled traceability concepts.

Status convention: “In delivery” denotes authorised work under implementation; “proof of concept” denotes controlled validation; “evaluation” and “roadmap” items are not represented as deployed production capabilities.