Manufacturing Automation Systems

Manufacturing Automation Systems help you streamline systems from your Shop Floor to the Top Floor.

Some of the key drivers of automation are:

• Audit requirements
• Inventory Tracking
• Integration with end systems such as printing
• Plant Floor Visibility

The key solutions we offer include:

• Trace and Track Solutions - Offer real time tracking of batches, with hand held terminals, efficient and accurate execution of operations, support by Bar-coded systems.

• Production Automation Systems -

• Integration of production reports directly with the ERP systems.
• WIP Material tracked during production.
• Complex production formulae can be handled through the system with rules to optimize the production and eliminate waste.

• Workforce Authorization Management Systems - Entry and authorization management systems to track the workforce and integrate the expenses with the payroll.

• Equipment and Work Station Management Systems - Optimize equipment utilization and work stations leading to efficient production lines.

• Rule based integration of equipments and automated movement of data.

• Transport and Dispatch Management - Better facilities Management, mode selection, Transport and Load Management and development of a Good Dispatch Plan Help you focus on brand loyalty, timely delivery to ensure commitment, and optimized loading to reduce vehicle turnaround time.

• Production Scheduling -

• Automate complex scheduling rules and carry out detailed Production Scheduling.
• Optimize and balance material flow through the plant considering priority of actual orders / projection, alternate routes, equipment capacity and process constraints etc.
• Decrease manufacturing lead time & eliminating overbooking

• Order Promising and Fulfilment Systems - Advanced  "To - promise" capabilities that include evaluating the impact of accepting new orders prior to making sales commitments.

SAP® Customer Relationship Management

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Create and Deliver Technology Enabled Customer Value

In a borderless world, enterprises have shifted towards customer centric strategy. Superior customer experience is a strategic differentiator for enterprises' products and services from their competition It becomes imperative to provide the customer a superlative experience from the acquisition to retention. A well deployed CRM solution helps enterprises improve customer loyalty, gain customer insights, and develop customer focused strategies.

We, at AGC Networks, help our customers deploy CRM solutions to enable differentiation and enhance customer experience to improve loyalty, identify cross selling opportunities and attract new customers. Our product implementation framework is a hybrid of Industry and SAP best practices, which help achieve short term and long term objectives of an enterprise.

AGC Networks' SAP® CRM competencies include:

• Marketing: Market Segmentation; Campaign Management; Trade Promotion Management; Lead Management
• Sales: Sales Planning & Forecasting; Territory Management; Accounts & Contact; Opportunity Management; Quotation & Order Management; Pricing & Contracts; Incentive & Commission Management
• Service: Service Order Management; Service Contract Management; Complaints & Returns; In-House Repair; Case Management; Installed Base Management; Warranty Management; Resource Planning
• Interaction Center: Telemarketing; Telesales; Customer Service; Interaction Center Management; Interaction Center Analytics
• E-Commerce: Catalogue Management; Campaign Management in Web Channel; Web Auctions; Complaints & Returns Management; Service Requests; Solution Assistance

AGC offers complete array of services around SAP® CRM solution. Our technical and functional consultants have rich experience across industries. With our deep domain expertise and a unique mix of knowledge from business and technology groups we help our customers differentiate their services and products by increasing customer loyalty and gaining customer insights.

What differentiates AGC from Competition?

• Unique combination of industry and technology experience. With subject matter experts absorbed from Group Companies and a pool of technology experts, we offer a special mix of knowledge and experience.
• Our exhaustive industry templates encapsulate best practices, proven solutions, user friendly system interaction and global perspective of processes. It enables rapid deployment of the solution.
• Our well established governance framework assures a risk free and cost effective implementation in your business.
• Motivated project team drives smooth experience during the entire engagement cycle.
• We understand the global processes which are based on our experience in implementations across the globe.

SAP - Business Intelligence

Fierce competition is making enterprises think beyond squeezing more efficiencies and productivity gains from operations. It is pushing business enablers to make informed and timely decisions. This needs enterprises to transform the in-house data in intuitive dashboards, which can give greater analytical insights to make well-informeddecisions.

We at AGC, help our customers to gain the right BI quotient and transform volumes of data into decision drivers. With a team of SAP BI/BO experts, having deep domain experience, we add value to the decision making ability of the enterprises.

Solution Overview

Business Intelligence (BI) platform can be leveraged in multiple ways to enhance the performance of an enterprise and make it agileimprove throughput, uncover trends, discover variances and predict business opportunities. The different dimensions in which BI platform can be used are:

• Dashboards
• Enterprise Reports
• Analytics
• Actionable BI
• In-Memory BI (SAP-HANA)
• Voluminous Data

AGC Business Intelligence Offerings

The enterprises have digitized key business functions, but the biggest challenge they face is lack of intelligence across these functions. This gap arises due to number of factors shown in the diagram. A successful BI implementation weaves a 'Web' around these functions to provide actionable intelligence to business users.

AGC Business Intelligence covers the entire spectrum of SAP BI &BO (Business Objects)suite. We consider information as an asset and leverage it to align business with the BI strategy. We offer a broad array of services from the concept to deployment phase of SAP Business Intelligence suite.

AGC Centre of Excellence (CoE)

Business Intelligence CoE, at AGC, invests in the depth and expertise across SAP BI/BO suite. We have developed a cohesive solution approach which governs the complete life cycle from strategy to implementation and stabilization state.

AGC follows best practices guidelines for the implementation of the suite in an enterprise environment. This helps in ensuring seamless integration of functions and data movement to derive insights into various operations. We perform critical design review sessions with our consultants to address all the business challenges faced by our customers.

The CoE has been working on improving the performance of the BI systems in different environments. We achieved the first success in 2011, when we were named the first in the industry to complete a successful proof on concept on the SAP HANA platform. Our group company is the first customer of SAP HANA. This gives us strong capability as far as these technologyimplementations are concerned .

AGC, Delivering Value

All the engagements in AGC are focused on value creation and not just solution implementation.

• Service capabilities range across technologies.
• Consultants possess diversified capabilities which help them to understand the business pain area for our customers.
• Deep expertise across various verticals like Steel, Oil & Gas, EPC, BFSI, Telecom, Shipping & Logistics, Retail.
• Strong focus on industry best practices and technology landscape alignment.
• Industry standard template driven approach, which integrates the best practices for BPR/BPM.
• Robust and custom engineered Program management and Governance framework.
• World-class knowledge management process.

SAP Human Capital Management

Realize the Potential of Technology to Manage Human Capital

Slipping employee loyalty and increasing pressure to reduce employee management costs is forcing enterprises to think new ways to manage human capital. On the other hand, human capital demands a simple, transparent and personal goal oriented interaction with an enterprise. To address similar aspects and changing factor in the business world, HR needs the right processes and technology.

AGC Networks' SAP HCM services are designed to address the needs of an enterprise globally. Our service offerings complemented with our scale of operations have helped us build a strong competency.

We specializes in the following services

What differentiates AGC from Competition?

• Unique combination of industry and technology experience. With subject matter experts absorbed from Group Companies and a pool of technology experts, we offer a special mix of knowledge and experience.
• Our exhaustive industry templates encapsulate best practices, proven solutions, user friendly system interaction and a global perspective of processes. It enables rapid deployment of the solution.
• Our well established governance framework assures a risk free and cost effective implementation in your business.
• Motivated project teams drive smooth experience during the entire engagement cycle.
• We understand HR practices across geographies based on our experience in implementations; viz. Americas, UK, Africa, Middle East, Asia.

Customer Testimonials

• It's been a great team work and a very high quality execution. Thanks to each and every one in the team for their dedication, focus and relentless hard work that they have put in to ensure a quality outcome. (CIO, Energy and Utility Enterprise)
• Congratulations on UAE HR & Payroll "Go Live". This implementation marks our first international footprint in SAP HR. The commitments that team have exhibited for marking the project implementation successful is commendable. The road ahead of us has many more key milestones to be crossed and I am so proud to be associated with such a passionate team. (Chief HR, A Natural Resources Conglomerate)
• I had been meaning to thank you all the while for the unflinching support during the implementation of PMS. What really started as a skeptical initiative (or so I would think) has been a truly smooth journey with all your continual back-end support and your ability to be there during the time we needed you the most in answering every minor question we had during the process. Thank u so much!!! (Sr. Manager HR, An Engineering Services firm)

Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010

Enterprise Collaboration Made Simple

In today's world, professionals expect to work on same documents simultaneously, share ideas and data to deliver results irrespective of where they are. They expect the tools to support mobile and virtualized work styles. With Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010, professionals can gather information from various sources and respond to a business requirement.

Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010 is helping the enterprises to respond to the changing business environment quickly. Professionals can share ideas & expertise, create custom solutions and locate the information to make better decisions.

AGC Networks Services

AGC has a Center of Excellence (CoE) for Microsoft® Web Technologies. The CoE has a team of certified consultants and developers. Our consultants have experience in implementing Microsoft® SharePoint® in various enterprise environments. We have specific expertise available in portal and work flow development. AGC help enterprises define and implement SharePoint® architecture and landscape.

AGC's solution framework, reusable components and other tools & templates help in reducing engagement cycle and total cost of implementation. We provide consolidation & integration solutions and program execution services for Microsoft® Technologies. AGC Networks is a Gold Partner of Microsoft®.

Microsoft®AzureTM

Performing Business Anywhere

Cloud is taking over the entire spectrum of technology trends. Organizations, across the world, are investing in a cloud platform. They have started relying on an internet accessible data center for running applications and storing data. As stated by Microsoft 'Windows Azure is a foundation for running applications and storing data in the cloud. Windows Azure today is a service: Customers use it to run applications and store data on Internet-accessible machines owned by Microsoft.'

AGC Networks helps the enterprises to transform their businesses using Cloud. Working together with Microsoft, we are constantly innovating the 'Software as a Service' environment. We hold strong credentials in building and re-engineering Cloud based applications.We also help enterprises implement private cloud which has additional attributes of control and customization. AGC have won 'NASSCOM IT User Award 2012' for implementing Microsoft Azure in its customer's environment.

AGC specializes in securing a number of benefits for its customers:

• High cost savings
• Low involvement of Management
• Seamless integration with 3rd party applications
• Scalable and flexible solution for future requirements

AGC Networks Services

AGC has a Center of Excellence (CoE) for Microsoft Web Technologies. The CoE has a team of certified consultants and developers. We have experience in implementing Microsoft Azure in various enterprise environments. Some of our experiences include deploying Cloud in a Multinational Conglomerate and a large Oil & Gas firm.

AGC's solution framework, reusable components and other tools & templates help in reducing engagement cycle and the total cost of implementation. We provide consolidation &integration solutions and program execution services for Microsoft Azure. AGC Networks is a Gold Partner of Microsoft.

What differentiates AGC from Competition?

• Unique combination of industry and technology experience. With subject matter experts absorbed from our sister companies and a pool of technology experts, we offer a special mix of knowledge and experience.
• Our exhaustive industry templates encapsulate best practices, proven solutions, user friendly system interaction and a global perspective of processes. It enables rapid deployment of the solution.
• Our well established governance framework assures a risk free and cost effective implementation of your solution.
• Our experience in global implementations and rollouts hasgiven us expertise to handle a variety of implementations across the globewhile understanding the relationship between business and Information Technology.

Treasury Practice Overview

Enterprises today need better in-house cash management to control liquidity, have visibility into treasury risk and reduce multiple bank interfaces that could add to overheads and costs. Treasury plays a major role in successful identification of risk, mitigation strategies and making enterprises more competitive in their exposure and risks..

Treasury management needs are different across different industry segments. Treasury operations for a bank could normally be classified as front, middle and back office, and the users for these could be different. Front office functionality includes management of deals and limits. Middle office functionality often includes management of risks and limits. Back office functionality covers accounting, settlements, confirmations, reporting and reconciliations. Financial Institutions can realize substantial cost savings by integrating their treasury platforms.

Following the slew of regulatory measures in most markets there is a strong need for IT systems to enable compliance with regulatory standards such as IAS 39, Basel II, and Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX). For example accounting related changes such as FAS 133 in US and IAS 39 in Europe and the rest of the world mean that banks have to start preparing their statutory reporting in the new formats in pre-decided time frame.

In a nutshell this calls for end to end process automation, process control and comprehensive reporting.

At AGC networks we understand this evolving market and have delivered the following SAP based Treasury solutions:

• Risk and Exposure Management - Reduced Financial risk of investments and exposures by Risk Analyses and Control tools
• Liquidity Management - Optimize enterprise wide liquidity management
• Trade Platform Integration - Integrate with trading platforms to reduce human intervention and cycle time
• Process Control and Workflow - Enhance Process Control by using workflow and authorization concepts
• Treasury Reporting - Enhance comprehensive reporting with SAP BI

Our Differentiators

• Proven track record in successful delivery for large clients accounts for Treasury in Insurance companies, Apex Bank, Central Bank, and Corporate like Steel, Energy, Oil & Power, Constructions, Shipping & Ports domain.
• Domain expertise in the Treasury vertical across multiple industries for Investment, Borrowing, Hedging & Trade Finance
• Varied Functional Skill sets in Treasury with process Knowledge
• Varied Skill sets across range of technologies
• Stringent coding standards, testing & release processes.
• Best Practices Methodology approach in Project Management
• Proven off-site, on-site capabilities
• Customers Delight
• Detailed pre-Project Scoping to ensure no scope creep

Industry Accolades

• First BFSI Treasury implementation in India
• First Insurance Treasury implementation in India
• LIC of India presented in SAP Summit 2008
• Essar Group received CIO award for best innovative implementation in Treasury

Competition in the future is not going to be merely about products but also about competing Supply Chains. A robust Supply Chain Planning and Execution system should be able to promise a delivery date to the customer, work out constraint based Plans for Production, Optimize Capacity Utilization and Maximize Profit.

Our Key Supply Chain solutions comprise:

• Order Promising - These solutions help arrive at accurate Order Promise dates for customers as well as help reduce potential late orders by flagging them in advance along with their root causes. Corrective actions to eliminate order lateness positively affect service levels.
• Inventory Management - Collaboration with customers and suppliers for inventory stocking and planning. Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) and Supplier Managed Inventory (SMI) solutions help reduce inventory across the Supply Chain.
• Production Planning and Scheduling - Greater visibility with estimated queue times and a realistic plan to improve adherence leads to better lead times, yields, strike rates and reduction of queue times.
• Demand Driven Network Planning - An accelerated response to supply/demand changes generates aligned production plans that can have greater compliance and an ability to quickly re-plan and the ability to assign free inventory to orders.
• Customer Fulfillment - Plan adherence and Dispatch Compliance are the primary drivers of customer satisfaction. A compliance driven plan needs to be communicated to the Factory Shop Floor and the entire production needs to be orchestrated in line with that.
• Business Intelligence for Supply Chain - Value Chain Metrics need to be tracked at the right hierarchy levels and they need to be predictive to be able to drive Decision Support. Our expertise across various verticals ensures that we have the right metrics and template designs to help you quickly deploy a solution.
• Transportation and Loading Solutions - Transportation and loading help you optimize the last leg of your Supply Chain saving on precious transportation costs and adding to the Project margin.
• Order Management Workflow Systems - Order Management Workflow Systems. These offer a seamless flow from the time an order enquiry is received till a Sales Order is generated in the system.
• Network Collaboration - Network Collaboration involves the deployment of collaboration portals for the purpose of SC execution and enabling a seamless flow of material and information across business partners.