Wipro’s Manufacturing Solutions Centre of Excellence

Wipro’s Manufacturing Solutions CoE for Consumer Goods strives to help customers achieve speed, quality and efficiency in today’s Demand-Driven Supply Chain environment.

The CoE focuses on the following areas:

• Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)
• Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence solutions
• xApps based on SAP AG’s Composite Application framework for CP Industry
• Formulations Management
• Regulations Compliance

MES
The CoE has forged a strategic alliance with GE Fanuc for providing solutions in the MES space for addressing the unique requirements of the CPG Industry. Wipro and GE Fanuc together bring the best-in-class solutions for Production, Efficiency, Quality management and Batch analysis

Composite Applications (xApps)
Wipro and SAP AG are working together to address solutions to the various complex issues in the CP industry using SAP’s composite framework.

iSDPS - Sub-Daily Planning and Scheduling for CP industry
Focused to address the following Business challenges of Fresh Food Industry:

• Demand peaks (usually weekends)
• Capacity management for these demand peaks
• Freshness / Shelf life of stocks
• Last minute changes to fresh demands of customers /quantities of WIP
• Managing raw materials for these changes
• Managing semi finished goods for meeting prioritized customer orders

Key Parts of the solution:

• Customized screens for handling WIP requirements
• Detailed production planning to incorporate fresh demands during the day
• Simulation module which simulates changes for planning and control
• Track changes to the sales orders and production plan to meet shipment requirements
• Customized reports for real time information on certain KPI's of fresh food industry which will help in operational efficiency

iSSC – Small Supplier Collaboration for CP industry
Focus on the agricultural business and the high quality demands of leading branded food companies, particularly in the area of the baby/infant food market, who need to collaborate with a huge, mostly diversified group of small and very small companies (mostly individual farmers or agricultural cooperatives) in order to understand product availability, track shipments (quantities, quality level), optimizing the supply chain and challenges to it, simplify their collaboration process, supported by reporting. These manufacturers face increasing governmental requirements and regulations, which they in return need to imply on their production process and its preceding supply process.

Key Parts of the solution:

• Supplier Collaboration Portal
• Supplier Enablement (Manufacturer to share regulatory requirements upfront)
• Supplier to have online visibility to orders and confirm online
• Shipment tracking
• Traceability and Compliance
• Regulatory filings

Formula Optimization
Wipzer-The CoE has developed a formula optimizer engine to address CP manufacturer’s formula optimization requirements. The tool applies the least cost formulation using linear programming techniques considering the factors like availability of the raw materials, nutrients of the products, cost of the ingredients/raw materials. The tool helps the customers to evaluate and arrive at optimized cost based on the availability and the nutrient constraints of the ingredients and the product.