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Transforming Cotton Procurement & Tracking App for a Leading Textile Manufacturer with Microsoft Power Platform

Company Overview

One of India’s largest vertically integrated textile conglomerates, this industry leader is globally known for pioneering sustainable denim and high-quality cotton-based innovation. With deep agrarian roots and a manufacturing backbone, the company delivers premium cotton to top global fashion brands, bridging tradition and technology.


The Missing Threads in Cotton Procurement: Business Challenges

  • Cotton procurement processes were manual and disconnected, relying heavily on paper-based tracking.

  • Field officers and farmers recorded bail quality data manually, causing frequent data inconsistencies.

  • Lack of digital traceability made it difficult to monitor cotton bails across the supply chain.

  • Quality validation checkpoints were weak, leading to lapses in cotton standards.

  • The company faced challenges in ensuring premium quality delivery to top-tier clients due to data gaps and process opacity.


Building a Digital Backbone for Cotton Integrity: Business Objectives

  • Create a fully digital platform for cotton procurement, tracking, and quality control

  • Enable real-time bail-level traceability from farm to warehouse

  • Empower farmers with simple mobile-first tools

  • Establish transparent, scalable, and auditable sourcing practices


Where Innovation Meets Ground Reality: Why atQor

  • Blended technology with empathy, designing solutions that resonated with both farmers and field officers.

  • Brought deep expertise in Microsoft Power Platform to create a scalable, low-code digital solution.

  • Focused on real-world usability, ensuring the app worked seamlessly in rural environments.

  • Delivered a solution that was simple, intuitive, and mobile-first, even for non-tech-savvy users.

  • Enabled real-time insights and data traceability, enhancing decision-making from farm to factory.

  • Acted as a true transformation partner, not just a tech vendor, building trust at every level of the supply chain.


A Smart Procurement Fabric with Microsoft Power Platform: Solutions

  • Developed a custom cotton procurement mobile app on Power Apps

  • Embedded QR code generation for each cotton bail for real-time scanning

  • Enabled quality checkpoints and metadata capture across sourcing lifecycle

  • Deployed Power Automate workflows for alerts, validation, and escalation

  • Centralized data within Microsoft Dataverse for secure, role-based access

  • Rolled out mobile devices to over 100 farmers and procurement officers

  • Created intuitive dashboards for decision-makers and auditors


Digitizing Every Thread of Trust: Business Benefits

  • Reduced quality deviation by 45%+ through digital checkpoints

  • Enabled end-to-end traceability from farm to final delivery

  • Empowered over 100+ rural farmers with mobile-first digital tools

  • Improved batch-level accountability and vendor performance

  • Delivered a transparent, client-trust-building audit trail

  • Enhanced cotton quality assurance, ensuring every bail meets premium standards


Customer Testimonial

“This initiative brought visibility, accountability, and quality into a process that was once opaque and manual. With real-time tracking and digital quality validation, we've significantly reduced quality issues and empowered our farming partners. It's not just process improvement, it's a step-change in how we source cotton.” - Head of Procurement, Leading Textile Manufacturer