IFS, the global enterprise applications company, announced that it has entered into a partnership with VMS - Vital Management Services (Pvt) Ltd of Pakistan. The two companies are working together to provide solutions to improve efficiency and flexibility within the industry. Mr. Jayantha De Silva, Vice President South Asia, IFS and Mr. Shoaib Hamid Khawaja, CEO, Vital Management Services (Pvt) Ltd signed the agreement on behalf of their companies.

 

VMS – Vital Management Services (Pvt) Ltd has a strong customer base in the South Asian region and is well regarded and known for its best-of-breed solutions with customers such as Sui Southern Gas Company Limited, WAPDA / PEPCO, National Transmission & Dispatch Company (NTDC) Institutional Capacity Building through Asian Development Bank / Economic Consulting Association UK & Hagler Bailly Pakistan, AES Corporation (Lal Pir & Pakgen Pakistan) and Coca Cola Export Corporation, just to name a few. This expertise, combined with the agility provided by IFS is geared to render a most powerful and flexible extended ERP solution. This combination of the complete business application system with a common support and implementation strategy presents one package enables minimization of integration risks and to keep costs down.

“We believe that together we are at a strategic point in business where there is a huge market to develop in Pakistan. There have always been strong ties of amicability and goodwill between the two countries (Sri Lanka & Pakistan). We aspire to get together and grow together by supplying not just a product business module but a service business module. We hope to develop business relations with Sri Lanka and be the benchmark for other companies in the region to strengthen and venture into the global village of business” said Shoaib Hamid Khawaja CEO of Vital Management Services (Pvt) Ltd after Agreement Signing Ceremony at IFS Research & Development (Pvt) Limited, 501, Galle Road, Colombo 06, SRI LANKA on Thursday 24th July, 2008.

“At present the region is booming at break neck speed as the Europe and US Market is attracted by factors such as low cost of production, high levels of literacy the ability to adapt;  therefore many channels are being  opened  and more investments of resources are made especially in the Manufacturing sphere. In this dynamic environ, business entities have primarily focused on external factors for growth and development. Pakistan, among the regional countries has shown great promise for business and has been in IFS’ map for investments. As a fast way to,’ go to market’ strategy we have the partnership model where we partner with key local companies and prosper together. Partnering with Vital Management Services is as a result of that. We have the confidence that with this partnership would make IFS’ presence in Pakistan much stronger” commented Shiraz Lye, Sales & Marketing Manager of IFS South Asia.