Advanced Collaborative Supply Management

In the Flat World, discrete manufacturing companies need to contend with expanding supply networks. Lack of standardization of operational procurement processes and low supplier collaboration lead to increased operations costs and revenue loss, hampers business user (buyer) productivity and decision-making. In addition, inadequate attention to procurement and supplier collaboration processes results in high direct, indirect and services spend, long- sourcing cycle time and high transaction costs.

 

To improve operational procurement and supplier collaboration, companies need to:

• Standardize operational procurement processes
• Provide buyers better visibility to exceptions and information for effective decision-making
• Offer a diverse set of procurement functionality to business users on a common platform
• Ensure partner connectivity to communicate and collaborate with a wide range of suppliers having varying maturity levels in technology
• Use industry-specific best practices in e-Procurement and supplier collaboration and extend existing ERP transaction processing capabilities

Infosys' Advanced Collaborative Supply Management (ACSM) solution enables companies to enhance operational procurement and supplier collaboration. Developed on Microsoft technologies, the solution defines best-in-class processes and provides a platform for procure-to-pay, supplier collaboration, performance management and partner connectivity for direct, indirect and services procurement. The solution is designed with modules to extend the existing Enterprise Resource Planning capability, enabling faster realization of business value.

 

Benefits

• Reduction in procurement operations costs for direct materials, indirect materials and services
• Increase in supply service level in terms of on-time delivery, quality and reliability at the same level of spend or transaction costs
• Improved buyer productivity through easier to use / act presentation of workflow and information
• Integrated exceptions handling across procurement processes. Enables buyers to do ?what-if? analysis
• Ease of procurement compliance through automated spend management processes and tracking of policy violations

Related Information

Webinar

Advanced Collaborative Supply Management

Get insights into sourcing and procurement for high-tech and manufacturing. Watch (registration required) an archived webinar that was hosted by AMR Research, Infosys and Microsoft.

 

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Analyst Citation

AMR Research mentions Infosys as a sourcing and procurement service provider that works well for the stage where companies "require greater functionality from their technology platforms, but they also need service provider and BPO assistance to close the gaps in the technology, particularly in the area of lean procurement." (July 2007)

 

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