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Demand To Deliver Value Chain for High Tech

Are the Traditional Package based IT solutions helping us bridge the gap between various departments to give an enterprise level view?

Over the last decade or so, no other industry has undergone such profound changes as the High Tech industry. This industry is witnessing increasing supply chain complexity with the introduction of new products every now and then with short product life cycles, relentless pressures on margins, outsourcing to cheaper destinations, heightened customer expectations, forward and backward integration of the supply chain constituents, need for better collaboration for inventory and forecasting. All these shifts have led to multiple issues, the key being :

Lack of effective supply chain and inventory visibility
Demand volatility leading to lower planning accuracy
High risk of product obsolescence, High No of SKU's, slew of NPI's, Complex Master Data Management
Margins under tremendous pressures, sometimes as low as 1-2%

Traditional Package based IT solutions also do not help the cause as they take a departmental and siloed view of the entire Business, where client will get different modules/applications for different Business functions like Procurement, Finance, Sales, Logistics etc. Client will then have to struggle to integrate all these myriad of modules/applications to make them work seamlessly and coherently and deliver the entire value chain. Also measurement of the performance of these functions/processes becomes a tedious job as there are no end to end overarching KPI’s being defined and measured, leading to dilution of process level accountability and view. This may lead to dissatisfied customer and suppliers for the client. This problem becomes more acute as there is plethora of applications available in market even under same product vendor for each business function. So the selection process itself becomes quite a challenge.

Oracle and Infosys are currently engaging some of their best talents to create an out of the box Oracle Applications based Demand to Deliver (D2D) solution, which is going to help clients achieve demand oriented value chain, superior performance, efficiencies and help outperform the competitors.

Posted by Abhishek Sabharwal on February 25, 2010 9:46 AM | Permalink

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Posted by: Patrica Budniewski | July 26, 2010 8:45 PM

Thanks Patrica for your encouraging feedback

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Posted by: Abhishek Sabharwal | July 27, 2010 7:44 AM