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Future-Ready Manufacturing: Partnering in your journey to a sustainable manufacturing enterprise
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Accelerate Enterprise Digital Transformation for Sustainable Change
Highlights
- Contract manufacturing is rapidly transforming the manufacturing landscape enabling businesses to minimize costs, achieve economies of scale, and capitalize on the labor arbitrage through a wide range of outsourced production activities.
- Despite its benefits, many organizations still struggle with visibility across contract manufacturing operations – hindering their ability to manage risks and respond to disruptions.
- TCS Crystallus™ Contract Manufacturing Services leverages Oracle cloud to bridge these visibility gaps by offering relevant stakeholders with a unified portal. This real-time view into supply and production status significantly reduces information asymmetry and drives smarter decision-making in the contract manufacturing lifecycle.
In this article
OVERVIEW
Solving the complexity of modern contract manufacturing.
Manufacturing organisations are increasingly recognizing the strategic advantages of partnering with specialized contract manufacturers to significantly reduce production costs, achieve economies of scale, and leverage labour arbitrage. However, managing multiple partners, complex supply chains, and fluctuating demand can be challenging.
Traditional enterprise solutions often fall short in providing the requisite digitalized solutions necessary for monitoring the intricate details of contract manufacturing. To effectively tackle these issues, organizations require enhanced transparency into production statuses and automated record keeping systems that facilitate real-time tracking of supplies and materials.
Holistic view of the outsourced production process, from complete outsourcing to partial component requirement and supply
SOLUTION
Empowering excellence through integrated capabilities.
TCS Crystallus™ Contract Management Services leverages Oracle cloud to provide a streamlined and comprehensive platform for managing contract manufacturing operations by integrating supply chain data, production planning, and partner collaboration into a unified environment.
The key features of the services include:
- Comprehensive process catalogue: With 10 pre-configured scenarios encompassing projects, procurement, manufacturing and finance functions, TCS Crystallus enables expedited stock and financial reconciliation, ensuring consistency and compliance.
- Integrated co-manufacturing flow: Seamless integration of standard co-manufacturing workflows, facilitating a cohesive approach to production and supply chain management.
- Real-time tracking: For partial or complete outsourcing activities including production milestones and inventory monitoring to third parties in real-time, ensuring transparency and responsiveness in the production process.
- Flexible manufacturing accommodation: Easily adapt to changes in demand or partner capabilities with built-in configurability for process adjustments. Support the production of critical components, sub-assemblies, and finished goods with adaptable workflows, providing flexibility to ship to internal warehouses or directly to customer locations.
- Dynamic and flexible invoicing options: Automated and customized invoicing processes for multiple billing systems and real-time reconciliation across systems.
The offering empowers organizations to achieve faster implementation, on-time delivery, superior quality control, and enhanced collaboration for a competitive edge in today’s dynamic manufacturing landscape.
Benefits
Driving business success with end-to-end contract management.
Some of the key benefits delivered are:
- Faster implementation: Achieve a 30% schedule advantage in deploying enterprise solutions for various contract manufacturing use cases.
- Reliable delivery: Predictable delivery timelines with real-time planning and coordination, leading to improved fulfillment rates.
- Cost efficiency: Lower implementation costs through enhanced production visibility and high operational agility.
- Superior quality control: Ensure product integrity and partner accountability with rigorous monitoring and integrated quality checkpoints.
- Faster communication and collaboration: Seamless communication and real-time collaboration through an integrated portal.
THE TCS ADVANTAGE
Partner with us for business success
Partnering with us, you can:
- Leverage more than three decades strategic partnership with Oracle solutions tailored to both industry and business processes.
- Gain vast industry and domain expertise with the best-in-class TCS CrystallusTM services built on Oracle Cloud
- Utilize our pre-configured assets to ensure seamless implementation of processes with faster time-to-market.
- Explore actual case scenarios of customers and offer a unique proposition covering the length and breadth of contract manufacturing services