Drive Innovation through Process, Metrics and Governance

Infosys' expert believes that companies can achieve innovation by ensuring that product lifecycle management integrates the product... development process and aligns it with the needs of customers. According to him, process, metrics and governance must drive innovation.

How Can High Tech OEMs Minimize Inventory Liability?

Infosys' supply chain experts believe that High Technology Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) can tackle inventory liability by adopting... a proactive approach spanning the entire supply chain and applying principles of the Toyota Production System (TPS).

Will your organizational knowledge retire with your workforce?

The manufacturing industry must focus on knowledge retention and sharing to deal with retirement of its knowledge workers, according to... David P. Spencer, Vice President, Discrete Manufacturing, Infosys, in an article in Manufacturing Business Technology.

Shaping Demand with Proactive Forecasting Techniques

High Tech companies are moving beyond addressing global markets and are expanding focus to include consumer-oriented businesses... Demand shaping, if practiced proactively by these companies, can help shift from passive / reactive to an active / predictive demand management. Such a shift will enable companies to sense demand and influence it, manage demand in uncertain times and focus on innovation for an early mover advantage with short product life cycles.

Supply & Demand Chain Executive

Infosys Assists Major Electronics OEM with Collaborative Practices

Infosys helps a global electronics company deliver products to customers through better visibility into its suppliers’ network and smart adoption of technology... AMR Research highlights how Infosys developed a collaboration methodology for inventory management, product fulfillment and replenishment for it.

The Flat Supply Chain

Globalization has created a massive increase in the complexity of supply chains. Companies are vigorously revisiting their supply chain strategies to achieve the desired business objectives.
Supply & Demand Chain Executive

Shrinking the Expanding Supply Chain

The continuing competitiveness of global enterprises will depend on their ability to evolve their supply chains into highly flexible, globally scalable competitive forces... For this they will have to invest in processes and technologies that enhance three key characteristics - visibility, co-ordination and responsiveness - to shrink their supply chains.

Demand Shaping Aligns Customer Trends with Supply

Demand shaping may become an integral part of sales and operations planning. While companies use forecasting to plan for customer demand,... they should use demand shaping to reduce the gap between their expectations and actual customer demand.
EE Times, Electronics Supply and Management

New Roles for High-tech Distributors

Changes ahead may be attributed to changing demand patterns, market conditions and the fast erosion of the distributor's margin compounded... by the shortening life cycle of products and components.
Electronics Supply & Manufacturing

Win in the Flat World: Apply Lean Principles across the IT Organization

Given heightened product innovation challenges and the need to optimize global workforces, IT organizations must consider the improvement opportunities... available to them by using lean change methodologies.
Manufacturing Business Technology

Creating Supply Chain Flexibility in the Flattening World

Flat world has emerged as the mantra by which businesses are getting redefined. The forces of globalization and ever flattening world are exerting... renewed pressure on global supply chains. Its time that organisations counter supply chain disruptions by building solid 'sense and respond' capabilities.

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