Infosys BPO’s solutions for the High Technology and Discrete Manufacturing industries include:
Reverse Logistics for Customer Operations
Products based on evolving technology, shortened product lifecycles and increased customer expectations result in a large volume of customer trade-ins and product returns. The reverse logistics solution integrates entitlement and authorization, contract administration, customer service and fulfillment, credit and rebill functions to deliver close to 3,000 product returns per week for telecom OEMs, component and technology distributors globally, 24/7. For a large global technology OEM, we have released US$ 54 million worth of working capital in days bills outstanding by redesigning business processes and modifying customer behavior to increase the probability of “clean” orders
Vendor Rebate Management for Supply Chain Management
Technology distributors typically operate at single-digit margins and need to leverage vendor relationships to deliver the best possible prices to customers, educate customers on vendor offerings and enable transport of goods through a multiple options like direct ship, C&F and delivery through distributor. Our solutions in vendor rebate extend beyond debit management and cover product price protection, direct-ship billing and vendor-sponsored marketing programs. Our strong understanding of the distributor, OEM, ISV space enables us to perform efficient transaction processing, propose problem resolution between trading entities. A dedicated Finance and Controllership practice develops the appropriate controls to mitigate risks to revenue and profitability, and a resource pool trained in functional and domain topics and metrics helps to baseline and benchmark performance across clients and industries.
Material Planning and Expedite Management for Supply Chain Management
OEMs and distributors have to align demand and supply by working with demand forecasts, customer orders, materials purchases and receipts and offer customers an available-to-promise capability during times of fluctuating demand. Our supply chain solution in material planning and expedite management converts rolling forecasts from customers into orders through exception management, manages inventory through bonding and flushing of idle window inventory, provides input to ATP and expedites orders to tackle PO backlogs. Best-in-class processes are developed and socialized for material planning, central expedite and follow-up with supplier and internal stock points, processing around 22,000 line items for 1,400 customers.
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