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Several factors are affecting innovation in the manufacturing industry - across processes, product development, outsourcing engagements, and even IT services. Among these factors are digital consumers in the automotive industry, the food and farming revolution, decision making using business intelligence (BI), cloud, supply chain, collaboration, and enterprise mobility.
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Today's competitive businesses need a structured mechanism to assess risk probability, measure potential business impact, establish risk mitigation strategies as well as sense and respond to disruptive events...
and remain ahead of the curve. The maturity journey of Infosys’ supply chain risk management provides a more systemic and predictive way to pro-actively mitigate impending disruptions at the highest level of maturity.
The increased complexity of manufacturing supply chains has led to extended lead times, increased pipeline inventory as well as the need to control...
both downstream and upstream logistics. Supply chain visibility can be a strong differentiator in such a scenario.
Most large organizations require global interactions on a day-to-day, if not hour-by-hour basis. The increasing complexity of such interactions leads to business delays and gaps in strategy. Organizations can facilitate immersive...
experiences by using virtual operations centers that leverage mobility and cloud computing. This will simplify complex, global multi-party interactions by creating a same-room effect and almost-physical collaboration.
Potential car buyers are making purchase decisions online. The digital footprint resulting from their online activity drives brand perceptions and influences buying ...
decisions. This paper details how automotive OEMs and dealerships can increase purchase outcomes by leveraging Infosys’ approach to integrated digital marketing.
Business intelligence systems - as they currently exist - are adept at gathering and analyzing data, but fall short of looking to the future. Infosys' business analytics approach...
provides the processes, tools and expertise to maximize the business value of information investments.
Globalization has made supply chains grow exponentially with increasing complexity. While companies focus on optimization, recent events are exposing vulnerabilities in supply chains. This paper...
outlines a disciplined approach to manage risks in global supply chains. It explains how supply chain organizations can assess risk probability, measure potential business impact and establish relevant mitigation strategies.
The aircraft industry continuously reinvents itself to reduce acquisition, operational and maintenance costs while meeting stringent performance requirements. The challenge is to design light weight aircrafts with reduced maintenance costs. It is essential to...
maintain readiness levels of the aging fleet to maintain profitability. This paper discusses the new realm of predictive maintenance known as in-situ structural health monitoring. Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) helps in realizing slender and light weight structures leading to reduced fuel costs, long term cost savings in maintenance and extended fleet life.
SQL Server integration Services (SSIS) is the de-facto standard for data migration and ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) operations in the Microsoft BI suite of Technologies. Nevertheless, SQL...
Stored Procedures are still the preferred choice in some of the applications for carrying out data migration activities like loading a delimited flat file into a SQL Server table. This white paper provides a brief understanding of these two data migration approaches, followed by a detailed generic and contextual comparative analysis.
The automotive industry lags in its ability to collaborate through the value chain in order to maximize customer satisfaction and efficiency. One of the most significant opportunities for improvement is how...
dealers and manufacturers can effectively, consistently, and cooperatively utilize common information for mutual benefit. This white paper discusses how the relevance and impact of manufacturer and dealer sales and marketing programs can be greatly enhanced with better visibility into the automotive value chain.
A volatile marketplace and the ever-increasing complexity of supply chain owing to globalization and dispersed operations are making a slew of demands on manufacturers around the world. Manufacturers are turning...
to Cloud to gain a winning edge, majorly for the ability to drive innovation and growth. The Cloud has the power to change the way products are made, by accelerating the development lifecycle, enabling seamless collaboration and creating a smooth and agile supply chain. This paper discusses how Cloud computing - representing a paradigm shift for manufacturers who strive for a smarter IT organization and business processes - provides an answer.
Cloud Computing can enable a company's technology-dependent business processes to operate efficiently with faster cycle time and lower costs. But moving to the Cloud is not easy. There is lack of clarity on applications to...
be retained and built on the Cloud, besides the Enterprise Architecture to adopt and cost justification for the process. Our experts discuss the transition challenges and strategies to overcome them.
Whether an organization manufactures or resells a product, the responsibility to comply makes the manufacturer and the reseller legally accountable. Product compliance is a constantly evolving...
process, whose role is enhanced in product proliferations and complex supply chains. The recent increase in compliance-related penalties, fines, and recalls, has left no room for non-compliance. Manufacturers, retailers and suppliers are pressed to innovate quickly to not only create compliant products, but also to declare it ‘compliant’ by placing it on store shelves. Our expert presents perspectives on product risks and their changing dimensions, product compliance, and its declaration.
In the era of the Digital Consumer, automotive enterprises must put an end to "accidental interactions" and strategically realize business benefits from disconnected interactions. Our experts recommend solution suites that...
address prominent areas of customer interaction friction. The solution suites are designed to achieve capability leadership with the industry maturity model and benefits realization framework.
Smart organizations are focusing on increasing workforce flexibility and productivity by enabling information access for critical decision-making anytime, anywhere. While mobile solutions are imperative across domains and verticals, several parameters...
need to be considered while choosing a platform or middleware to implement the mobile solution. This perspective attempts at addressing the benefits of enterprise mobility. It explains how the combined approach of SAP and Sybase Unwired Platform addresses both the present and future needs of an organization
Optimization of Maintenance Repair and Operations (MRO) supply chain can help manufacturing and utility organizations unlock value and drive significant savings. It also addresses complex challenges such as end...
to end integrated planning, increased availability of assets, optimizing inventories and effective spend management. Technology and outsourcing service providers have come up with unique solutions to address the need of this segment. This paper gives an overview of the typical challenges faced in MRO supply chains of manufacturing and utility organizations and presents some approaches to drive and add value through IT application implementation, process improvements and consolidation and by moving some of the processes to a centralized offshore delivery centre in a low cost country
As business models continue to evolve, organizations realize that there is no single approach towards enterprise architecture. Business landscape, employees and their experience influence enterprise decisions. In this view point,...
our experts recommend a combination of approaches resulting in roadmap and effective roll out of Cloud Computing program towards realizing enterprise vision.
Post-recession, the U.S. Automotive industry faces a new challenge of engaging the digital consumer on a customer-centric and satisfying path. Original Equipment Manufacturers and dealers seem...
to encounter increasing incidence of interaction friction owing to their inability to engage digital consumers in positive vehicle sales, financing, service and support interactions. Our experts propose orchestration of the automotive customer experience to increase digital consumer delight and help dealers realize greater economic returns from their marketing, sales and service interactions.
The influx of multiple brands in the market has forced the Automotive industry to stay on top of emerging technologies. Our experts describe how Infosys' Automotive eBusiness Maturity Model draws out a well-planned eBusiness strategy...
to raise Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) to the highest level of competitiveness by leveraging the power of Web 2.0. An effective eBusiness strategy, centered on a customer-oriented mindset, results in increased productivity and higher profitability.
Aerospace companies need to constantly collaborate with customers and suppliers to ensure that they design and build the right products and offer relevant services. Social Computing creates the context for online collaboration ...
through software and technology. According to Infosys’ expert, Social Computing creates business networks across organizations and geographies facilitating companies to share information and collaborate through multiple channels. Social Computing also reduces implementation complexities and cost of collaboration while enhancing confidentiality and security.