will look at the entire company ’ s sales and operations planning process - but that ’ s for the future .”
JTI ’ s technological transformation has required the participation of a number of partners such as Hanson Regan and SCL Consulting . Samad notes that the companies it works with vary in scale . “ We have a few big strategic partners , we work with SAP , Microsoft , Oracle ,
Orange Business Services and Wipro . In addition to that we engage with midsized companies that give us more agility and flexibility . Some of these companies started very small and they grew with us , so they feel part of the team spirit that we have created at JTI .”
Thanks to the existing measures put in place by Samad and his team , JTI was well able to weather the
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“ We ’ re going to expand further into the digital space ”
— Atiq Samad ,
CIO , JTI
www . jti . com