About Ruby Bus:
Ruby Bus Pvt. Ltd. has been a part of the Indian Bus Body Building industry for over five decades. Ruby Bus, being one of the few organized players in the industry, having state-of-the-art plants equipped with large production facility, has emerged as one of the major manufacturers of buses which cater to both indigenous demands as well as export requirements

Merino Relationship

Ruby selected Infor ERP LN FP2 after though evaluation of leading as well as local ERP Products available in the market ( SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, Orion, PC Soft etc.). Ruby selected Infor ERP LN because of its strong manufacturing functionalities and selected Merino as implementation partner because of excellent reference from their competitor JCBL where Merino implemented Baan IV c4 system. Merino’s domain knowledge on Bus body building was key in winning this account for Infor.

Engagement Scope

• Implementation of Infor ERP LN FP2
• Implementation of BIRT Reporting
• Application Management Services

Key Challenges

• The production scenario was a hybrid model of Make to Order and Forecasted demand
• Dynamic BOM of every SKU
• Inventory tracking as there are various Subcontractors, working in the premises of Ruby.
• Huge subcontracting activity, both at Ruby premises and outside.
• To align production plan with the movement of chassis from OEM
• Accurate production plan for assemblies and sub-assembly