Increased globalization and customer expectations have made effective supply chain management essential for manufacturing organizations. A well-managed supply chain can help companies reduce costs and drive top-line growth as well. Global organizations are partnering with Birlasoft to discover new opportunities for supply chain performance improvement and enhanced collaboration across the value chain, to become leaner and demand driven.

Client Challenges

For a manufacturing company, the supply chain can become a complex combination of materials, capital and information. This gives rise to numerous obstacles such as:

• Poor visibility of operations throughout the organization
• Inefficiency leading to poor performance and low productivity
• Inadequate or improper information or data storage leading to scarcity of metrics for effective decision-making
• Increasingly complex compliance standards
• Shortening product lifecycles

What Birlasoft Provides

Birlasoft offers manufacturing organizations comprehensive Supply Chain Transformation solutions. Using our unique Supply-chain Performance Evaluation and Enhancement device (SPEED), we provide organizations with industry expertise, proprietary, as well as industry standard tools, frameworks, solution accelerators and knowledge & database, at every stage of the supply chain transformation program.

Our solutions include:

• Developing an integrated strategy which translates overall business objectives clearly to all operational entities
• Building a common scorecard to measure SCM performance
• Assisting in identification and improvement of processes by eliminating waste and/or improving process reliability
• Creating standard processes and common information systems across business units
• Identification, evaluation and implementation of best fit technology solutions

Business Value

Birlasoft's Supply Chain Management experience and expertise, provides organizations with numerous business benefits, such as:

• Increased inventory turns alongside reduced costs brought about by outsourcing of non-essential processes
• Improved productivity leading to on-time delivery
• Greater visibility throughout the supply chain, resulting in improved decision making
• Enhanced communication and orchestration with supply chain partners
• Improved SCM task and staff productivity due to integration of process steps and people processes