"Green shoots of economic recovery and fledgling signs of optimism are here. Manufacturers must look to four strategies to become leaner and more nimble to gain competitive advantage in the new...
post-crisis world," according to B G Srinivas, Member, Executive Council, Senior Vice President and Head, Manufacturing, Infosys Technologies, in 'The Manufacturer'.
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Microsoft and Infosys have established an online supply chain center of excellence. Sanjay Jalona of Infosys discusses how the center helps professionals take informed decisions...
on what products to sell, the markets to focus on and how to allocate between sales channels.
*Reproduced with the permission of Supplychainbrain.com
Social networking and Web 2.0 help companies drive innovation, build brand image, maximize revenue, and enhance the customer experience.
*Reproduced with the permission of CRM magazine
Develop-to-order companies must have flexible capacity in design and development to meet demand, according to experts from Airbus and Infosys.
Companies should use a Business to Business (B2B) e-commerce network to achieve the flexibility provided by Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). According to...
Infosys’ experts, SOA helps companies change applications to suit future business requirements. Our experts discuss the challenges in the end-to-end ordering process of the high-tech industry. They demonstrate how a B2B e-commerce solution can realize benefits of an enhanced purchasing process, superior user interface, improved system performance, and an agile and scalable system architecture.
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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.
*Reproduced with the permission of Global Services.
Infosys' expert believes that companies can achieve innovation by ensuring that product lifecycle management integrates the product development process and aligns...
it with the needs of customers. According to him, process, metrics and governance must drive innovation.
Infosys' supply chain experts believe that High Technology Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) can tackle inventory liability by adopting a proactive approach spanning...
the entire supply chain and applying principles of the Toyota Production System (TPS).
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.
High Tech companies are moving beyond addressing global markets and are expanding focus to include consumer-oriented businesses. Demand shaping, if practiced proactively...
by these companies, can help shift from passive / reactive to an active / predictive demand management. Such a shift will enable companies to sense demand and influence it, manage demand in uncertain times and focus on innovation for an early mover advantage with short product life cycles.
- Supply & Demand Chain Executive
Globalization has created a massive increase in the complexity of supply chains. Companies are vigorously revisiting their supply chain strategies to achieve the desired business objectives.
- Supply & Demand Chain Executive
The continuing competitiveness of global enterprises will depend on their ability to evolve their supply chains into highly flexible, globally scalable competitive forces...
.For this they will have to invest in processes and technologies that enhance three key characteristics - visibility, co-ordination and responsiveness - to shrink their supply chains.
Demand shaping may become an integral part of sales and operations planning. While companies use forecasting to plan for customer demand, they should use demand...
shaping to reduce the gap between their expectations and actual customer demand.
- EE Times, Electronics Supply and Management
Changes ahead may be attributed to changing demand patterns, market conditions and the fast erosion of the distributor's margin compounded by the shortening life cycle of...
products and components.
- Electronics Supply & Manufacturing
Given heightened product innovation challenges and the need to optimize global workforces, IT organizations must consider the improvement opportunities available to them by using...
lean change methodologies.
- Manufacturing Business Technology
Flat world has emerged as the mantra by which businesses are getting redefined. The forces of globalization and ever flattening world are exerting renewed pressure on global supply...
chains. Its time that organisations counter supply chain disruptions by building solid 'sense and respond' capabilities.