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April 14, 2013

Best Practices Could Be Bad Sometimes - WMS Implementation

Traditionally warehouses have always strived for on time delivery. The focus has been primarily on maintaining high throughput and order accuracy. In times gone by, the occasional customer request for special services was not a rule of the game. It used to be processed off-line as one of case, an exception.  This is no longer true since customer delight is the only mantra for success. With economy getting back on trajectory, many organizations will consider the Warehouse Management Systems as a suitable opportunity to make investments.

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April 1, 2013

Vanilla Enterprise: Paradigm, Considerations & Trends

Guest post by
Supratik Ray, Principal Consultant - Manufacturing vertical, Consulting & Systems Integration, Infosys

 

Enterprises embark on application implementation programs and adopt different approaches to attain goals like improving efficiency, collaboration, enhancing customer experience and employee productivity. The approach to implement enterprise application has been evolving due to learning and changes in ideology and technology. Experiences across multiple large scale transformation programs highlight the challenges, paradigms, decision considerations and some noticeable trends.

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March 13, 2013

Green Insurance: Managing Risks of Going Green

One of the latest Buzzwords in the Insurance Industry is Green Insurance.Going green may be the demand of the day,

but doing so may not be an easy task and comes along with a whole lot of risks which need to be managed.

This also throws an opprotunity to Insurance providers to introduce new products and service offerings in the market.

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March 5, 2013

Increase productivity, decrease TCO with JD Edwards E1 One View Reporting

Guest Post by Anup Agarwal

Project Manager, Consulting and Systems Integration, Manufacturing, Infosys

Oracle catered to long awaited real time end user reporting request of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne (JDE E1) users, by announcing JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 9.1 One view reporting in April 2012.

One view reporting (OVR) caters to most commonly asked reporting and analysis questions. OVR provides an extensive set of pre-built reports spanning across various JDE modules as listed below. These reports
are fully integrated with JDE E1 9.1.

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February 17, 2013

Eco-Transparency: Paperless Document Generation Capturing EAN

We have all studied the concepts and the evolution of a "Learning Organization". But gone are the days when one could survive and excel by merely learning. Organizations are progressively operating in an era of setting emulatable examples for others, thereby being a "Teaching Organization". Original equipment manufacturers (OEM) and distributors these days are increasingly laying more and more emphasis on the social responsibility, working towards a greener supply chain. Organizations have realized that they have Community and Environment as their major stakeholders. Therefore the excellence each organization is aspiring for is truly the green supply chain they are ingrained in. It is important to be profitable and at the same time remain sustainable. This is to be practiced by the pioneer and emulated by the other industry players.

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January 28, 2013

Best of breed functionalities in Project and Portfolio Management space

Guest post by
Rajan Gupta, Senior Consultant - Manufacturing vertical, Consulting & Systems Integration, Infosys

 

Overview of Oracle Projects core functionality

Oracle Projects is a widely used application in project centric organizations and provides a comprehensive enterprise project management solution. Oracle Projects suite includes modules like Project Costing, Project Billing, Project Resource Management, Project Contracts, Project Manufacturing, Project Management, Project intelligence  and Project portfolio. Life cycle of the project starts with bidding of projects, creation of project opportunities, scheduling of activities, assigning resources, budgeting and then execution of the project. Execution of the project includes budgeting of the project, managing deliverables, collecting cost on the project (Time entries by employees working on the project, software & hardware purchase, travel etc.), shipping and generating forecast. Oracle Projects has been undoubtedly the leader in controlling financial and delivery aspects during the execution of the project. Project costing (PJC) and Projects billing (PJB) have always been the Heart of Oracle Projects and are widely used modules. Oracle Projects has standard streamlined interfaces with Financials, Human resources, manufacturing, time and labor engine and supply chain management modules. That makes Oracle Projects a stable application to execute different types of projects in the company.

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January 16, 2013

Digital Super Market and Role of 3PLs in Shaping them

According IMAP Retail   Industry Global Report 2010, between 2005 and 2009, the global Internet population increased from 1 billion to more than 1.6 billion and by 2014 it is projected to grow by another 42 percent, reaching a level of 2.3 billion1.

According to Data Monitor, the global online retail sector grew by 17.8% in 2010 to reach a value of $434,618.3 million. In 2015, the global online retail sector is forecast to have a value of $827,188.4 million, an increase of 90.3% since 2010.Electronics is the largest segment of the global online retail sector, accounting for 23.6% of the sector's total value.

Customers across the Demographics and Geographies of the world are looking for uniform buying experiences in terms of Product and Pricing, across all the Channels of the Retailers.  They are visiting the near buy Stores, testing products and going through the experiences, looking for promotions in Social Media and then taking a hat of bargain hunters are ordering the products online

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January 2, 2013

Why Exalytics? Why not Exalytics? - Part 2

Guest post by
Karan Chadha, Senior Associate Consultant - Financial Services and Insurance vertical, Consulting & Systems Integration, Infosys

 

In Part 1 of this blog I had talked about how Exalytics leverages in-memory analytics to provide consistent sub-second response times. In this part I will discuss some use cases where Exalytics may not be a good fit despite being a powerful product. But before that, let me touch upon some of the other key benefits that Exalytics brings to the fold. 

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A Firm Capability to Deliver - the key to a delighted Customer

Given the Growing demand volatility and Supply Chain Uncertainties, Rising commodity and Fuel prices, increasing rise of modular  and geographically dispersed Supply Chain Cells, need  of right shoring or Offshoring and finally today's ever rising Customer preferences , expectations across the Demographics and Geographies, there is an increasing need to  give the customers a firm 'Capability to Deliver' (CTD) date and time as  a must have action point , at 'Point of Sales'  or approximate date range  at the 'Point of Interest' or there are increasing chances of lost sales to the nearest competitors, as Consumers wait time for the necessary or aspirational products or services are moving from weeks to days to hours as time elapsed

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December 27, 2012

Relevance of Data Governance in Big Data

Enterprises always had more data than their infrastructure and processes could handle, even in past let aside the thought of deriving actionable intelligence for effective decisioning from them. The same problem has now intensified several folds with larger volumes, variety of data from social media, online channels & most critical is the "Urgency" to handle such data.

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