Om Auto Group with a turnover of Rs 330 million is a pioneer in Vehicle Transportation by trailors, Domestic Air Cargo and Integrated Logistics Management.

OM Auto Group of companies have 40 branch offices India-wide that employ a work force of 600 personnel. It has a fleet of about 500 vehicles that daily log about 100,000 kms.
The high volume of transactions and absence of a centralized channel of communications/information led to increased paperwork and operational costs (Telephone/FAX), slower service, slow reaction to time to customer queries and most important inefficient consignment tracking.

The solution offered to OM Auto Group integrates the operations of all the 40 branch offices through the Internet backbone.

Solution Architecture
The challenge of integrating the databases of all the branch offices was met by Tata Technologies by providing a two-tier solution.
The first tier comprises of a front end solution that allows the offices to work offline and independently on localized database.
The second tier comprises of a centralized application/database server that is the repository of all the localised databases and serves as a data warehouse for the management as well as the customer.
The glue, "VCMXchanger", that binds the two tiers i.e. the local offices and the centralised data storage is a custom developed solution by Tata Technolgies.
The "VCMXchanger", using state-of-art technologies of Java and XML, maintains the distributed databases in synch.

Key Benefits of the System:

• Online Vehicle Tracking
• Cosignment Tracking by Customers
• Improved EIS DrillDown approachs about Billings, Transactions
• Informed Decision Making
• Fleet Management
• Warehouse Management
• Reduced Administrative Costs