Business History and Diversification
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Chitale Group started in 1939 by the grandfather, Mr. Babasaheb Chitale, evolving into a diversified group.
🌾 The business covers genetics, food processing, farming, and dairying, aiming to supply essentials for the farming community's prosperity.
🌐 The company manages operations ranging from grass-to-glass, ensuring the best quality milk reaches end consumers.

Digital Transformation During Pandemic
🛑 The pandemic necessitated a swift shift to digital operations due to restricted access to physical shops.
💻 The challenge was creating and deploying applications rapidly to meet immediate needs for farmers, processors, and consumers.
🩺 Technology supports managing the animal reproductive cycle, milk production, and quality yields to ensure farmer economics.

Technological Implementation and Modernization
🚀 Utilizing VMware and VMware Tanzu, the company achieved faster deployment of modern applications, reaching previously inaccessible remote farmers.
⚙️ Advanced applications on the VMware platform monitor and optimize the hundreds of thousands of liters of milk processed daily for operational excellence.
🔄 The strategy involved rewriting all applications to a modern stack with API-based access, ensuring they were scalable between private and public Clouds.

Supply Chain and Data Utilization
📦 A new supply chain system was developed using VMware Cloud-native apps to service all stakeholders, including the final consumer.
📊 Real-time data collection and internal analytics are being used to achieve the most efficient distribution manner.
💡 Application modernization, including API enablement and better documentation, was completed rapidly using Sunfire's services.

Key Points & Insights
➡️ The Grass-to-Glass concept defines their commitment to quality control from farm production to consumer delivery.
➡️ VMware technologies are enabling the company to achieve agility and the mandate to "do more with less."
➡️ Application modernization focused on creating API-based, scalable applications ready for hybrid cloud environments.

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