to achieve operational efficiency

ACHIEVING OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE BY GOING DIGITAL

Digital disruption is happening across manufacturing and other industrial sectors, and businesses in these segments

have begun to harness the benefits of digitization across their value chains. Research suggests that a significant number of incumbents across industries —as much as 40 percent— will be left wounded, probably mortally, by digital disruption over the next five years. A Cisco survey of more than 600 senior manufacturing decision-makers across 13 countries (Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, South Korea, United Kingdom, United States) from a range of manufacturing related segments found that 79 percent of

senior manufacturing leaders—both industrial machine builders and end-user manufacturers—believe that digital disruption will drive a moderate to major impact at their companies in the next three years. That combined with pressure on manufacturers arising from reduced pools of technical expertise, increased global competition, and market volatility, places any competitive edge at a premium. As a result, nearly all manufacturing sectors—automotive, consumer packaged goods, high tech, and industrial machinery—continue to feel an acute need for more expansive service offerings and technology innovations.“Digitization, fueled by the power of IP, allows the entire manufacturing

process and entire supply chain to be completely automated, secured, and managed as a global entity. This drives greater outcomes such as improved efficiencies, reduced downtime, greater resource utilization, and increased returns on investment in a shorter time,” says Tirthankar Mitra, Director, Commercial Sales, Cisco India and SAARC. Many manufacturers are embarking on a digital transition journey to improve collaboration on the shop floor and increase workforce efficiency. Consider, Jubilant Food Works (JFW) market leader in the organized pizza market. Having a network of 959 Domino’s Pizza restaurants and 67 Dunkin’ Donuts restaurants across India, JFW was looking for an agile and robust technology platform that could support digitization and lay a futuristic technology road map to help them stay ahead of the competition. JFW wanted to ensure seamless collaboration between all its stores’ staff and managers across India. The primary ask was for a solution that was easy to deploy and maintain. JFW also wanted all their warehouses to be connected in order to enable mobility for warehouse employees and was additionally seeking a robust network infrastructure for its new Noida facility.JFW partnered with Cisco to deploy a converged Infrastructure that included a real-time collaboration solution for their headquarters, branch offices and stores across India. Part of the deployment was a mobility component to integrate their warehouse supply chain operations. The network

infrastructure was redesigned and an agile network roadmap provided along with high definition wireless and the latest collaboration suite to cater to the growing business needs. According to Rahul Puri, VP IT, JFW, “Cisco’s next generation technology platform has empowered us to take a big leap on the journey of digitization. The integrated collaboration solution helps to enhance employee productivity and foster a collaborative environment across the organization.” The future readiness and scalability of the technology solution helps the network Infrastructure meet higher workloads. According to Pushkar Chandra, Sr. Manager IT, JFW, “The agile IT infrastructure is helping to roll out new applications to meet growing business demands at a faster pace. A clearly defined ROI and lower TCO are added benefits.” Intas a leading, vertically integrated global pharmaceutical formulation development, manufacturing and marketing company headquartered in Gujarat was looking to set up a state-of-the-art corporate office with new ways of communications including video to enhance collaboration across the organization - both domestic and global offices. Intas also wanted campus networking and mobility with guest access for the new corporate office.Intas partnered with Cisco to deploy an integrated networking solution to enhance the user experience. Cisco conducted a successful Proof of Concept before the deployment. Cisco’s integrated architecture that combines campus LAN and

collaboration solution helps to demonstrate the power of collaboration to address training requirements. Speaking about the deployment Nitin Parmar, Sr Vice President - IT says, “The superior video quality in the multi-location in-house video conferencing solution from Cisco which includes Telepresence endpoints has been a great benefit for us to communicate seamlessly with each other and enhance the user experience.”The business outcomes and benefits of going digital are clear. From improvements in visibility, security operational efficiency and productivity, to reduced downtime and increased supply chain flexibility, the results deliver a real competitive advantage to any manufacturer or any other manufacturing segment. From being off-line and unconnected, to a connected production environment, to more a holistically connected digital enterprise and all the way to a more sophisticated—and simpler—supply chain orchestration, the entire journey requires commitment, as well as laying a foundation with the right building blocks.

The superior video conferencing solution from Cisco has helped us to communicate seamlessly with each other and enhance user experience.

Nitin ParmarSr. Vice President - IT Intas Pharma

An agile IT infrastructure helps us to roll out new applications to meet growing business demands at a faster pace.

Pushkar ChandraSr. Manager ITJubilant Food Works

Digitization, fueled by the power of IP, allows the

entire manufacturing process and entire supply chain to be completely automated, secured, and managed as a global entity.

Tirthankar MitraDirector, Commercial Sales Cisco India and SAARC

Cisco’s integrated solution helps to enhance employee productivity and foster a collaborative environment across the organization.

Rahul PuriVP ITJubilant Food Works

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