A leading provider of semiconductor components to electronic equipment manufacturers

The client's order planning and scheduling systems were not integrated across sites and facilities. With ever increasing demand of specialized products and shorter lead times the company was facing planning and scheduling problems leading to inappropriate delivery commitments and inefficient resource utilization.

Wipro was engaged by client to develop and deploy the global planning system at its 3 Test sites. The challenge before Wipro was to implement internal supply chain management solution to enable a shift from mass production to customized one. The project required an in-depth understanding of the supply-chain dynamics of the semiconductor industry.

Wipro solution was to develop this application in 3-Tier architecture. The solution was developed in four phases: Data Integration, Global Planner, Factory Planner, and Dispatcher and Plan Manager. The solution addressed the key issues of determining the product mix, the site of production, due date and batch size of production (what, where, when and how much). The required data integration solution had to interact with 20+ external systems which rendered the task of development extremely complex and time consuming. The whole application had to be developed in 7 iterations to ensure full proof quality of the solution.