The Largest Footwear Manufacturer In India Consolidated Backup for Thousand Devices with QSAN

Company Biography

Incoporated in 1984, Relaxo is the largest footwear manufacturer in India that has served the nation since four decades ago, and is today ranked amongst the top 500 Most Valuable Companies. As a Fortune 500 (India) company synonymous with quality products & affordable prices, it manufactures slippers, sandals, sports, & casual shoes. Its most popular brands – Relaxo, Sparx, Flite & Bahamas are leaders in their spaces. Relaxo, an iconic brand renowned for its rubber slippers, is the most versatile footwear for all segments of society while Flite offers a popular range of fashionable and semi- formal slippers. Sparx reflects the attitude, style, dynamism and spirit of young India and offers a wide range of shoes, including sports shoes, sandals & slippers, while Bahamas provides a colorful selection of casual flip flops which exude the freedom, fun and modernity of youth. Having a pan India distribution footprint, Relaxo also operates a 350+ strong network of own retail outlets, with availability on all major e-commerce portals as well.

The Challenge

With more than 8 manufacturing facilities harboring the capacity to produce ~7.5 Lac pair/day cross India, Relaxo continuously focuses on optimizing their operations for faster and more efficient production of high-quality products. Such manufacturing excellence supports Relaxo's leading position in the market. Manufacturing execution systems (MES) have been playing a key role in this optimization to track and document the transformation of raw materials to finished goods. MES provides information that help manufacturing decision makers understand how current conditions on the plant floor can be optimized to improve production output. MES works as a real time monitoring system to enable control of multiple elements of the production process (e.g. inputs, personnel, machines and support services).

As a result, tonnes of data are generated every day from the end points deployed throughout the production process. The Relaxo IT team needs to find a new storage solution to replace their legacy equipment and manage growing data from manufacturing facilities to ensure data will always be readily available. "We need to store backup of around 1000 end points on 10 different locations, and replicate backed up data to central location in HQ for taping on external media", said Mr. Ajay Tyagi, GM of IT.