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SCM & Logistics Solutions
Organizations which are Supply Chain intensive are now realizing that the only way to provide the required service level to Customers is to leverage technology. Typically organizations start from setting up transaction systems to handle basic transactions. To offer better service levels to your customers and to manage operations better, we believe that specific technology solutions (leveraging the latest advancements) in the Supply Chain and Logistics functions can yield great results.
Aqua MCG offers help to identify, design and implement the right solution for specific SCM & Logistic needs. Some of the key supply chain challenges that organizations encounter in the current business environment are:
- Ensuring Supply Chain Visibility across the ecosystem so that the organization can react faster to any issues
- Offer real-time visibility to their orders so that the vendor relationship is strengthened
Use scientific methods to optimize inventory, transportation especially with the level of complexity current businesses have
Ensuring that the carbon footprint is optimized and help in maintaining a green planet
We have specialized offerings to help customers deal with specific SCM & Logistics solutions
Our Offerings
Supply Chain Visibility Solutions
In a complex supply chain involving multiple external service providers, the only way for an organization to have control is to have visibliity on the operations through an integrated visibility platform which is opened up to all stakeholders. We help to conceptualize such a portal and platform which is pragmatic and effective . This is typically custom solution built on top of a portal platform
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Mass Customization An increasing consumer appetite for customization is already being catered to by brands ranging from Armani to Nike & Adidas, with online channels segueing with traditional ones. A new supply chain paradigm is required to serve this trend, one with the flexibility to create a lot of one, starting with design and manufacturing and ultimately shipping the product to the customer, possibly bypassing the store completely.
Leveraging cutting edge technology, like Intel’s latest POS proof-of-concept5, demonstrates how merging POS, RFID, digital signage & CRM technology enhances retail shopping experience by including individual customer preferences while allowing real-time inventory access as well as continuous feedback to back-end supply chain.
D ifferent ‘go-to-market’ routes Demographic shifts in spending powers, rising affluence levels and the digital age are causing paradigm changes in ‘go-to-market’ strategies across multiple channels.
Viral marketing, social networking presence and online retailing need to sync with more traditional forms of retail. Zlio.com builds off the social networking trend. This site allows anyone to essentially open up their own online shop and receive commission from the products they sell. The companies that pay the commission are major retailers like PetSmart, eBay and Sony. These major retailers understand that in today’s world, shoppers are so easily connected to one another, and often influenced by their peer social group, that they look to one another to be the editor of assortments,essentially redefining the concept of assortment optimization. Retailers in India need to consider partnering with online luxury marketers like Net-a-Porter before the concept becomes a norm.
To handle the emerging multiplicity in go-to-market channels, an agile supply chain is required to enable extending distributive reach beyond the physical retail footprint and
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Enterprise Architecture Strategy Roadmap & Lifecycle Program with an Energy Major
Title: Developed an architecture roadmap for migration to a Shared Services IT concept and SOA based Enterprise Architecture from current heterogeneous and counter-optimal scenario
Background :
Our client is one of the largest energy companies in the world.
It is a leader in Exploration & Production, Refining & Marketing and Renewable Energy.
The client employs over 96,000 people in 100 countries around the world.
Business Scenario:
Migrate to a Shared Services Model for delivery of common technology themes to achieve following benefits:
Minimize redundancy in applications
Reduce cost of managing surplus applications
Effect corporate-wide SOA adoption
Improve Vendor Management practices
Process framework to validate and refresh strategy documents
Our Solution:
The project Objectives included the following over three phases in six months:
Prudential guidelines for building shared services
Enterprise Architecture recommendations – Reference Architecture Signatures, Maturity Journey Setting, Two-tier Framework and Product Footprint recommendations
Repeatable process framework, governance and reusable instruments in Enterprise Architecture
TOGAF two-tier architecture framework for Business and Technical Components
Business aspiration heat map for developing a price-performance reference architecture
Enterprise Architecture maturity measurements and multi-year journey setting
Benefits:
Enterprise Architecture Roadmap, Governance Plan, Investment Plan & Business Case (allocation to appli
Last Updated On:9/13/2011 2:36:28 PM
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