Microsoft, Infosys to Build Online Community for Manufacturers
Microsoft and Infosys have launched an online supply chain center of
excellence. This Web-based portal will serve as an online community for
manufacturers and trading partners. Among other uses, they can discuss
supply chain management issues.
Microsoft Corp. and India’s Infosys Technologies have forged a new
go-to-market alliance around improving supply chain visibility and
collaboration for manufacturers. The partners will jointly bring to
market solutions that provide capabilities for performance management,
analytics, collaboration and event-based exception management.
These
include specialized modules that provide data and intelligence for
supply chain professionals to manage performance of after-sales service,
procurement, inventory and demand management functions.
According to Microsoft, the Infosys Service Performance Workbench and
Infosys Procurement Workbench modules are available immediately, with
others to follow. The modules contain pre-built intellectual property
and accelerators in the form of process frameworks, data models,
analytical tools, performance metrics and key performance indicator
scorecards tailored for specific supply chain roles.
The
joint solutions also include proprietary connectors developed by Infosys
and Microsoft to help facilitate the integration of these modules with
existing business systems, such as enterprise resource planning
applications and supply chain execution systems.
In
addition, the solutions are built upon core Microsoft technologies, such
as Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.
Their
online supply chain center of excellence is created at http://www.nextgenerationsupplychains.com/.
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