Develop-to-order companies must have flexible capacity in design and development to meet demand, according to experts from Airbus and Infosys.
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A collaborative procurement platform strategy effectively mitigates the supply chain risk of supplier bankruptcy.
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When automobile manufacturers are compelled to launch feature-rich vehicles in record time, it leads to compressed development and testing cycles, an increase in product recalls and significantly higher warranty...
costs. Business intelligence embedded in the vehicle can deliver timely information on key parameters of product development. Infosys’ experts recommend the use of telematics and on-board diagnostics to transmit near real-time information. Telematics accelerates time-to-market, reduces development costs, improves quality of the product and enhances competitiveness in terms of features.
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Global companies that adopt Lean principles can capitalize on advanced technologies to effectively eliminate waste in their operations.
Flat World companies can sustain their competitiveness by evaluating global sourcing strategies with service providers. Customers and service providers need to focus on strategic imperatives across each phase of the sourcing...
cycle. We examine the key priorities in procurement, transition and service delivery from the perspective of customers and service providers.
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The manufacturing industry must focus on knowledge retention and sharing to deal with retirement of its knowledge workers, according to David P. Spencer, Vice President, Discrete Manufacturing, Infosys, in an article in Manufacturing Business Technology.
Cummins chose Infosys as a Global Preferred Vendor (GPV) for its expertise in IT application outsourcing, consulting and business transformation. Cummins and Infosys team will deploy IT solutions that will help Cummins grow...
to more than $20 billion in revenue. This new partnership will bolster Cummins operations so it may handle the growing global demand for power technologies and components.
N.R. Narayana Murthy, Chairman & Chief Mentor, Infosys, delivered the keynote speech at the inauguration of the Dell Distinguished Lecture Series at the University of Texas, Austin.
In September 2007, a New York Times article described how companies like Infosys have many American graduates fly in for six months of training in Bangalore, followed by assignment options the world over, including...
America. Further, AMR Research wrote about Indian companies setting up numerous near-shore delivery centers in the US time-zones. And there you have it - India is outsourcing outsourcing.
So wrote Mark Twain after learning that a reporter was sent to investigate whether he had died. This quote came to mind on reading the latest in a spate of articles published recently, predicting the decline of India as the leading global sourcing destination.
Infosys' former Co-Chairman Nandan Nilekani believes that globally companies are going through a new challenge. "This challenge, in some sense, is similar to what companies went through a hundred years ago. It is a combination...
of demographics, emerging economies, globalization, technology, flat world and regulation. There is a fundamental change in the way companies are run today."