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Wipro partners with Jubilant FoodWorks to cut energy, operational costs

Wipro signed a five-year partnership with Jubilant FoodWorks Limited, master franchisee for Domino's Pizza and Dunkin' Donuts in India, to deliver energy management services to reduce energy and operational costs.

March 31, 2016

Wipro, a global information technology, consulting and business process services company, signed a five-year partnership with Jubilant FoodWorks Limited, master franchisee for Domino's Pizza and Dunkin' Donuts in India, to deliver energy management services and help reduce energy and operational costs, according to a press release from Wipro.

The EcoEnergy business of Wipro rolled out its multi-year Managed Restaurant Energy Services program last year leveraging its Service Window framework. The MRES program will ensure effective sustenance of energy cost reduction by a three-pronged restaurant energy control approach; Intelligent Site Automation, a ready-to-use intelligence to crew and technicians through its Wipro Energy Manager Application Suite, and a centralized Energy Operations Center for big data analytics that further enables asset performance, improved customer satisfaction and better food storage compliance.

"We are delighted to partner with Wipro toward site intelligence improvement and for designing site optimization solutions for our restaurants in India," said Ajay Kaul, CEO, Jubilant FoodWorks. "Currently we have rolled out across 400 restaurants with a view to roll out across the remaining 600 plus in the coming months. Technology is the backbone of our operational delivery and we are confident that Wipro's turnkey approach, with deep focus on analytics, will help our restaurants to continue setting new operational benchmarks supporting profitable growth and at the same time committing to an environment-friendly future. This has been validated by the early results that we are seeing in restaurants where the program has already been rolled out."

"We are excited about this partnership and will leverage our global QSR sector experience to assist Jubilant FoodWorks reduce their rising energy costs," said Dr. Anurag Srivastava, senior VP and head of business outcome services, Wipro. "We will include analytics and IoT technologies to improve various aspects like food safety and guest experience in order to reduce overall maintenance costs and help in maintaining their market leadership position in the QSR market in India."