Siegwerk launches customer portal in India

Siegwerk launched a customer portal, an online ordering platform, for its customers in India aimed at providing a complete contactless order management facility starting from placing orders to making payments online.

Siegwerk launched a customer portal with a virtual launch event attended by over 100 key customers.

The portal will be available 24/7, 365 days to ensure a seamless order management service to customers. This was announced at a virtual launch event attended by over 100 key Siegwerk customers.

It is a one-of-its-kind initiative by Siegwerk India towards bringing e-commerce experience to its customers. Taking advantage of the successful model implemented in Germany and China, Siegwerk’s Indian customer portal is slated to reduce the dependency of herculean manual procedures and a lot of paperwork while ensuring visibility for the customers to efficiently manage their supply chain.

Ashish Pradhan, president, Siegwerk India and Greater China said: ‘The Siegwerk Customer portal is a crucial part of Siegwerk’s digital strategy. We, at Siegwerk, have not only adopted digitalization as a core element of our strategy but also taken steps to digitize our customer strategy. Digitizing our customer strategy is to bring our customer into our day-to-day digital operations, digitizing the order processing interface which will lead to ease of operation, enhancement of transaction speed and real-time data on the status of orders. The portal is a step in this direction. Siegwerk is the first ink company in India to take this big step towards customer delight.

Ashesh Mukherjee, vice president and business unit head, Sheetfed Business India shared the key functionalities of the customer portal and its relevance and power, particularly in current context, to drive convenience and efficiency in supply chain.

Sanjay Singh, Div. CEO, ITC PSPD graced the virtual event as chief guest and S.N Venkataraman, divisional head marketing, ITC PSPD was the special guest. They shared their thoughts on the power of digitization in the current context.

Compatible to use on all devices including mobiles, tablets, laptops and desktops, the customer portal offers a real-time order tracking facility and provides an end-to-end order management to view order status, order history, check expected delivery date while generating account reports for account receivables and ageing report, amongst others. It sends automated system generated notifications to customers on order progress. A greater customer satisfaction is ensured through providing purchase insights by numbers, product/material type, color and series. It also provides document management option where customers can get safety and technical datasheets as well as statement of composition.

Siegwerk first launched a customer portal in Germany in 2018 and implemented it in China in 2019. A pilot was initiated in India from July 15, 2020. Looking at the growing popularity of this platform, Siegwerk has plans to further launch customer portals in Turkey, Netherlands, USA, France, and Malaysia in the current year.