Dabur India completes cloud migration in 10 months

Fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) company Dabur India has announced the completion of cloud migration. With this, Dabur will improve its commercial resiliency and information technology (IT) operations, resulting in increased efficiency, transparency, and agility.

“As a future-ready enterprise, this cloud-only approach will significantly improve our business resilience and enhance control of the IT landscape, helping us augment our services for retailers, partners, employees, and consumers. The move is also in line with Dabur’s commitment to curb carbon emissions and achieve Net Zero by 2045,” the company said in a statement.

The entire cloud migration processor took 10 months to complete, in collaboration with companies like SAP and Microsoft. Dabur has moved its software from its own data centre to these cloud platforms. The SAP programs are on RISE (SAP’s subscription-based enterprise resource planning) and the non-SAP programs are on Azure. 

To be sure, in May, Microsoft announced its association with Dabur on its cloud migration journey, alongside SAP. Dabur’s goal with adopting cloud would be to achieve cost savings, real-time insights into the IT resource consumption, enhance security, and carbon-zero footprint by 2040. “The migration to Azure provides a comprehensive tech stack that allows us to enhance time-to-value and innovate based on our requirements,” Kaustubh Dabral, chief information officer
Dabur India Limited had said that time.
Other partnerships include Xoriant-owned Thoucentric to manage Dabur’s program management and governance function and Accenture for implementation.

In its stock filing on Friday, Dabur India said that factors like the deficient monsoon, mild summer, and the delayed festive season will affect the company’s second-quarter operation profit. The company also said that due to change in the festive season, the related offtake will be carries forward to next quarter, per BSE filing.