Mahindra Satyam – Oracle Solutions

Apparel xPress

Apparel xPress, a solution for fashion retail stores, plugs some of the gaps in the standard features of Oracle Retail solution. It is targeted at large fashion retail chains with operations spread across geographies.

Business Problems addressed

Creation of an item without vendor confirmation of supply
No mechanism to handle the transfer requests to multiple stores in a single go
No visibility to the user into the transactions created by them
No visibility into the pending approval transactions

Solutions Features

Single application platform - establishes real-time connectivity till the supplier level and provides system of record on confirmation
Plug and play mode of custom components - users to pick the components based on their business process
Easy integration with other applications and tightly integrated with other Oracle Retail modules
Gives the benefit of system support at the start of the procurement process, without burden on the database
Automated control over the pending transactions for monitoring purposes

Key Capabilities & Differentiators

Allows retailers to get a confirmation from the Supplier for the supply of the items created.
Consolidates stock transfer request to all stores
Displays transactions relevant to the respective owner to speed up the approval follow-up process
Displays consolidated view of all the transactions to the respective approvers

Airlines xPress

This solution caters to back-office operations of emerging and budget airlines and streamlines the process in the Purchasing, Inventory, HR and Accounting functions.

Business Problem Addressed

Revenue leakage on account of multiple avenues to generate and record revenue
Challenges in demarcating revenue streams for better analysis
Managing and controlling direct operating costs
Capturing and allocating indirect costs
Challenges in accounting of interline settlement transactions
Managing in-flight items issues and stocks
Management of employee travel expenses

Solution Features

Easy-to-use - preconfigured features
Customized for the Airlines industry to enable 30 unique business processes
Customers can add, modify and expand the entire footprint as per their business scales
Provides a framework to integrate information from different systems

Key Capabilities & Differentiators

Helps preventing revenue leakage by capturing General Station, Outstation, Agents & ICH Bookings
Segregates revenue streams into Passenger, Cargo & Miscellaneous Sales
Helps manage and control Direct Operating Costs such as Fuel, Aircraft lease etc.
Simplifies settlement of Interline transactions
Helps in managing in-flight items issues and stocks
Manages assets and their depreciation as per local requirements

Campus xPress

This solution caters to start-up / emerging and small-size academic institutions in streamlining processes such as Admission & Recruitment, Enrollment & Registration, Teaching & Learning etc.

Business Problem Addressed

Faculty evaluation through online feedback mechanism
Lack of data collection templates, data conversion scripts

Solution Features

Built on PeopleSoft Campus Solution module with pre configured processes and predefined project life cycle documents to reduce delivery time
Captures student feedback and faculty evaluation

Key Capabilities & Differentiators

Student Admissions process works effectively with Online Application tool and pre-configured evaluation process
Improved Self-Service administration for students
Ready checklists for admissions / records processes
Email update to waitlisted students
Report on expected (forthcoming) students to graduate

WiMax - Telco xPress

This pre-integrated BSS/OSS solution helps WiMAX Operators acquire customers, provision services, generate revenues and manage businesses.

Business Problem Addressed

Minimal CAPEX outlay
Easy to implement and quick to roll out solutions
Easy launch of the solution with all critical features
Avoid expensive CRM system with extensive and unused functionality
Take new innovations in products and services swiftly to the market

Solution Features

Comprehensive BSS/OSS Solution, built on Oracle products, and packaged with custom developed components for WiMAX service providers
Unified platform for billing voice, data and value-added services
Single platform to manage end-to-end customer and service life cycle

Key Capabilities & Differentiators

Integrated AAA (Authentication, Authorization and Accounting) functionality to support both prepaid and postpaid subscribers.
Extensive OSS features such as provisioning, service creation & delivery and profile management
Integration with external systems with standard based APIs
Prepackaged interfaces to enable shorter implementation time
Reduced time-to-market
Modular and fully-integrated
Compatible with any network elements
Scalable solution to support “grow-as-you-go” model

Logistics xPress

Logistics xPress is a rapid implementation solution designed to deliver the power of Oracle Transportation Management to load brokerage businesses in the fastest way possible while causing the least disruption to existing operations.

Business Problem Addressed

People-intensive and highly-manual processes
Ability to efficiently deal with large number of shippers on demand side and a fragmented and wide network of carriers on supply side
Responsiveness of quote management process
Inaccurate carrier invoices and customer bills
Collaboration with shippers and carriers

Solution Features

Completely configurable solution that addresses the individual roles of employees, customers and partners
Pre-configured solution includes agents, rate structure, workspaces, user roles, screen sets and menus etc.
Supports complete operations for load brokerage business
Scalable to support contract logistics and intermodal operations

Key Capabilities & Differentiators

Requires 60% less time from operations/business users during implementation life-cycle and can reduce overall OTM implementation time by 40%
Business Processes Enabled include:

Opportunity -to-Contract
Inquiry-to-Quote
Order-to-Shipment
Shipment Visibility
Freight Settlement

Automated shipment planning and execution process
Online collaboration with shippers and carriers
Automated process of paying carrier invoices
Automated customer billing

Serial xPress

Serial xPress is a solution developed for the pharmaceutical industry to check drug counterfeiting. It is based on Oracle Pedigree and Serialization Manager and is targeted at pharmaceutical companies.
Business Problem Addressed

Compliance to global regulatory requirements
Patient safety
Efforts involved in product recalls
Loss of brand value

Solution Features

Enables mass serialization
Provides access to more timely and accurate sales data
Eliminates counterfeiting of drugs and enhance patient safety
Greater revenue share by reducing “gray market”
Fast and efficient reverse logistics or recall processes
Better control over and visibility into supply chain – more accurate shipments

Key Capabilities & Differentiators

Manages mass-serialization and ePedigree across the supply chain
Supports packaging hierarchy recording and updating
Generates, imports, manages and views serial numbers in GS1, SGTIN standard
Checks threat from counterfeits
Serial shipment and returns along with operational serial number analytics
Unparalleled data management and data security

Business Problem Addressed

People-intensive and highly-manual processes
Ability to efficiently deal with large number of shippers on demand side and a fragmented and wide network of carriers on supply side
Responsiveness of quote management process
Inaccurate carrier invoices and customer bills
Collaboration with shippers and carriers

Solution Features

Completely configurable solution that addresses the individual roles of employees, customers and partners
Pre-configured solution includes agents, rate structure, workspaces, user roles, screen sets and menus etc.
Supports complete operations for load brokerage business
Scalable to support contract logistics and intermodal operations

Key Capabilities & Differentiators

Requires 60% less time from operations/business users during implementation life-cycle and can reduce overall OTM implementation time by 40%
Business Processes Enabled include:

Opportunity -to-Contract
Inquiry-to-Quote
Order-to-Shipment
Shipment Visibility
Freight Settlement

Automated shipment planning and execution process
Online collaboration with shippers and carriers
Automated process of paying carrier invoices
Automated customer billing

SCM Solution for Energy industry

Mahindra Satyam’s Supply Chain solution for Energy industry helps achieve operational excellence through re-engineering business processes based on renewable energy industry best practices and implementation of Oracle E-Business Suite.
Business Problem Addressed

Visibility into a supply chain including supplier capacities
Minimizing inventory costs
Greater financial controllership

Solution Features

Horizontal solution for supply chain challenges across the Manufacturing and Energy industries
Oracle E-Business + Adv. Supply Chan Planning solution with the BPR by Mahindra Satyam
Automated production plans considering supplier capacities
60 built-in extensions to address the manufacturing customers
Minimized user errors and higher productivity through use of mobile handhelds for transactions

Key Capabilities & Differentiators

Better inventory tracking and visibility for accurate planning and optimum inventory balance maintenance
Helps the customer optimize inventory-carrying costs
Improves material purchase accuracy through automated sync of Purchasing and planning functions
End-to-end system driven controls to ensure SOX compliances
Addresses gaps between Engineering and Manufacturing
Completely integrated system processes - ensures zero disconnect though appropriate controls
Increased Financial Controllership through rules based accounting engine

Oracle E-Biz R12 Upgrade xPress

This solution helps organizations realize value through R12 Upgrade and enable them to extract maximum value from new and existing Oracle investments. It helps organizations balance business expectations and technology considerations during upgrade.
Business Problem Addressed

Lack of functionality in existing applications, leading to complex and cumbersome customizations
Usability challenges on account of cluttered user interface leading to reduced productivity
Fragmented and distributed business process without visibility of enterprise level activities
End of standard support from vendor and high support costs
Varied hardware and multiple instances

Solution Features

Pre-upgrade assessment helps in defining business case for upgrade, with high level scope, business & other benefits, efforts and high level cost
Full range of flexible upgrade packages to accommodate different business needs of various enterprises
Pre-defined templates, guidelines, and re-useable components
Upgrade toolkit and migration assessment tools

Key Capabilities & Differentiators

Lift, Shift & Enhance – Full lifecycle support including management consulting, functional, technical & new features implementation, testing, documentation and change management services
Re-Platform – Includes services such hardware upgrade, operating system upgrade or in introducing Fusion Middleware
Tangential Services – Includes a range of services such as Testing, User Training, Documentation and Change Management etc.
Proven accelerated delivery capabilities, proprietary assets, and superior skills to reduce the risk of business disruption and upgrade complexity

PeopleSoft Upgrade xPress

This solution is Mahindra Satyam’s unique service offering for PeopleSoft Enterprise Applications Upgrade, enabling services starting from pre-upgrade assessment to complete outsourcing of upgrade program.
Business Problem Addressed

Improving functionality and effectiveness of the applications and technology adopted
Integrating, maximizing and consolidating processes and the respective applications used
Proactively assessing and addressing user expectations to enable performance management
Meeting the demand for new applications or upgrades of existing ones to overcome obsolescence, and lack of support from product vendor
Reducing the cost of maintenance, and generating more business value to keep Industry compliance

Solution Features

Automated process to evaluating customer environment
Assists customers in pre-upgrade evaluations
Accelerators to speed up the delivery timelines
Comprehensive and matured upgrade methodology

Key Capabilities & Differentiators

Faster and cost-effective upgrades
Minimal disruption to business community
Enabling CIO organization to put up upgrade business case
Enabling decision-making like upgrade vs. re-implementations, new functionality / module implementation
Better ROI by full utilization of standard features, customization to standardization etc
In-house developed Accelerators – MSAT IPs
Upgrade with minimum impact to day-to-day operations
Qualified professionals to assess, plan, and execute upgrades

Database Migration on PeopleSoft from non-Oracle Database

This solution offers a simple and matured methodology to PeopleSoft customers to migrate from non-Oracle database to Oracle Database i.e., from DB2 / SQL Server to Oracle DB Server Migration with People Tools and Applications.

Business Problem Addressed

Bring single platform to reduce the operation cost
Integration challenges with non-Oracle databases
Impact on peripheral systems and reports due to changes in database platform
Retire from old database platforms due to rigidity and performance issues
Align with new technological innovations
Strategically bring legacy to single Oracle platform
Infrastructure optimization

Solution Features

PeopleSoft Tool – Data Mover is used to export the table structures along with data from the source database
Migration Approach, Methodology and Tool – Validates and identifies various impacted areas across the PeopleSoft system and generates a report for accurate impact assessment, work allocation and implementation
The solution has an iterative approach with thorough testing

Key Capabilities & Differentiators

Proven experience on Cross Database Migration Solution, Approach and Methodology
Better utilization of PeopleSoft tools
Readily available scripts and tools for migration analysis, retro-fitting and scripts
Iterative approach to measure results at each stage and take corrective actions
Compare report generated between source and target for reconciliation at every stage
Skilled DBAs to support multiple instances creation and migration
Initial assessment services by DBA on readiness

Agile Mobile Solution – iPad App for Agile PLM

This solution makes Agile PLM application available on iPad for users of Agile. Users can access Agile application while on the move and ensure that they are able to perform important functions and be more efficient.
Business Problem Addressed

Delays in change approval cycle time due to constant travelling of people and not being able to access Agile for review and approvals
Secure and real-time access to Agile data while on the move
Improves productivity by making Agile accessible to mobile devices users
Customizing UIs for specific mobile devices

Solution Features

First Agile iOSApp that works on iPad
Highly interactive user interface design
Easy-to-use search functionality
Specifically designed for data consumers

Key Capabilities & Differentiators

Improves productivity
Customized User Interfaces for specific devices
Secure and real-time access to Agile data
Capability to view PDF attachments
Maximizes ROI on Agile PLM
Built on an enterprise-class framework and can be extended to support Single-Sign-On
Can be connected to other web services-enabled applications in the future
Built by highly experienced Agile team at Mahindra Satyam with end-to-end service capabilities