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May 13, 2012

Models of Product Maintenance - Role Models Galore

Optimum product maintenance is the back bone of a successful organization. At the same time it is also the brittle bone. If not thought of carefully, it can lead to a stalled supply chain and a malaise business.

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May 3, 2012

Enterprise Mobility Adoption - is technology the real challenge?

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Amit Zutshi, Lead Consultant, Infosys

...I hope to have that answered as "Not really" by the end of this piece. Let me, however, begin by stating that on a particular day, no matter how much I think I know where enterprise mobility is going, I seem to be falling short by a mile or so of the reality. In my last blog I wrote about how enterprise mobility was beginning to help unshackle the modern day ERP and CRM suites. While the proverbial ink had not even dried on that blog, we witnessed one of the ERP majors deciding to reach its customer's customer through a consumer application that helps end consumers track product recalls on their phones (it is a different story that the primary customer is not fully covered as yet, since challenges around making ERP truly mobile still remain).

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April 28, 2012

Product Maintenance In A Strict Regime

One time success comes to many but sustained excellence is not everybody's cup of tea. World class organizations maintain their growth momentum year after year, operating in strict regime. This is true for leaders in retail as well as printing and digital solution industry. Players under the Food and Beverage industry, operate under a strict legal and compliance regime. International Agencies like FDA, FCC, and USDA mandate the tacking of lot attributes like the product expiration date throughout the supply chain. Also, corporate governance norms like Supplier Social Responsibility mandate the tracking of the products' country of origin. This is important to ensure that organizations do not indulge in any kind of malpractices like sweat shopping.

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April 26, 2012

Basel III - Leading the way to herald a paradigm shift in Risk Management

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Sukruti Suresh, Senior Associate Consultant, Infosys

The financial crisis of 2008-09 paved way for a regulatory reform that was revolutionary. The impact of this crisis was so severe that the losses it caused led to a near collapse of the financial system and crippled the economy to a large extent. Considering market sentiments, the need for a new set of reforms was at an all time high. This led to an intervention by the Regulators on a global scale. Slowly and steadily, the economy regained a semblance of stability. The next obvious step in the process of recovering and stabilizing was a detailed analysis of the cause of the unparalleled failure of the financial system the world witnessed. There seemed to be a collective failure of Banking, regulation as well as supervision. With massive amounts of the tax payers' money being pumped towards reviving or "bailing out" crumbling financial markets and institutions, finding the cause and solution for the problem was the need of the hour. This eventually resulted in a complete rework of existing regulations which included changes in capital management, liquidity, Governance etc. The events that transpired in 2008-09, led to the revamping of the Basel 2 regulations and paved way for the Basel 3 regulations.

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April 13, 2012

Oracle Hyperion Upgrade- Opportunities and Possibilities

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Hari Ram, Technology Analyst, Infosys

The rapid progress in technology makes today's-latest seem like tomorrow's-outdated. The change may not always mean 'mere increase in the version number' or 'change in look and feel'. The newer version of a platform or product more often than not brings a bag of advanced features that will simplify the process, increase usability, fix earlier defects and most importantly provide more value for the buck spent.

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April 10, 2012

Payroll Interface in Multi Geography Environment: Key Focus points

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Neha Barnawal, Senior Associate Consultant, Infosys

In organizations operating out of multiple geographies; country/region specific Payroll Vendors are increasingly preferred over the centralized HR Operations systems. While the importance and complexity of Payroll Processing is unquestionable in any HR system; different Payroll systems for different countries make it all the more complicated.

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March 30, 2012

iSetup -> An Effective and Powerful Tool to Manage Setup Migrations (Part-2)

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Vikas Jhamb, Lead Consultant, Infosys

In the first part of the blog I had discussed why iSetup can be a powerful tool which can be used by any Oracle Project team to automate the manual job of creating the setups whenever a new instance is created.

Today I will briefly touch on the prerequisites required for setting up iSetup. The first thing that we need to do is to apply the requisite patches. The table below shows the details and the sequence in which these patches should be applied.

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March 17, 2012

Leges Enthalpy Enim Supple vinculum Network

With the technology moving at rapid stride and high state of entropy in the markets, the global business scenario has been challenging for High Technologies Enterprises that includes printing and digital imaging organizations. The road to success has been inflicted with many an impediments. High demand volatility may be the single largest challenge facing OEM today. Supply chain volatility and in particular demand volatility is surging, driven by increased global competition and changes in buying behavioral patterns. Customer expectations continue to soar to highest levels while brand loyalty and engagement span decreases. Demand is growing for products specific to individual local markets, adding new layers of supply chain complexity. This stupefies all planning and forecasting that has been put in place by organizations thus far. All this is compounded by shrinking margins for the manufacturers.

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March 16, 2012

Be Profitable to Promise

Recently I was speaking to a group of users about Standard Oracle Functionality on Order Promising. The audience were listening with varied degree of interests and expressions, some constantly scratching their heads, some with furrowed brows and some occasionally scrolling through their BBs, to the concepts and benefits of available to promise, capable to promise and capable to deliver. Then a lady with thick glasses and greying hair (sign of wisdom!) quipped - 'how do you make sure with all these Business makes money?'

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March 15, 2012

Measuring Profitability from a Multidimensional perspective!

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Sowjanya Achar, Senior Associate Consultant, Infosys

The turbulent nature of financial markets and the Global financial Crisis stress upon the need and importance of measuring profitability accurately, in order to survive the stiffening competition in the market. There may be possibilities that while measuring the overall profitability firms may miss out on the decisive points that may portray certain units to be unprofitable while the other units as profitable. Hence it is of prime importance that all costs incurred are apportioned appropriately among different business units so that the performance of each unit within an organization can be rightly measured and the right business decisions can be taken. It is very important that financial institutions gauge each and every aspect of business such as the different product lines, the different geographies and lines of business where the firm operates, customers, channels, segments etc that impact the overall profitability of the business. Having said this, will considering different dimensions of business alone give an accurate picture of profitability? The answer to this would be that the exact profitability can be measured only when firms consider different dimensions of business and measure profitability on a risk adjusted basis.

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