Manufacturing– Engineering, Automobile, Electronic, Pharmaceuticals, Food & Beverages and many more.

Vertical Overview
Manufacturing is a diverse industry covering engineering, the automobile business, pharmaceuticals, electronics, food processing and many other areas. In today's global marketplace, many manufacturers are actively expanding to satisfy worldwide demand for a wide range of products. The result – manufacturers are facing an explosion of new opportunities and challenges, particularly in the areas of production, internal business process, technology and knowledge newly required as a result of the Information Technology Revolution.

Given the inherent diversity of the manufacturing value chain, these challenges have a varied impact for each manufacturer. Many manufacturers face a complex business environment in which they must streamline their business process, improve employee effectiveness, enhance customer relationship management, integrate vendors into the supply chain process and maintain an efficient sales and marketing system.

Industry Trends and Business Issues
There are a number of trends impacting on the manufacturing industry.
These include:

• Corporate globalization as an economic imperative to growth and competitiveness. This necessitates expansion into new markets and leverage of a global supply chain.
• Privatization, Mergers, and Acquisitions that continually create new competitors around the globe.
• The outsourcing of non-core business operations to reduce costs in areas such as payroll, Employee benefits, Information technology, and even Manufacturing
  

Today, what is different is the pace of change in the current market, which prompts the need to move fast using technologies that enable these issues to be quickly addressed. Additionally, customers have become a proactive force in today's economy and are determining the nature of competition as they voice their expectations and select the manufacturers that can best respond to their needs. All this is transforming business today, customers replacing technology as the driving force for change across a wide range of industries, including manufacturing. . Now it is imperative to find out what customers want, how they want to receive it, what they want to pay for it, and when they want to get it. This new approach challenges manufacturers to meet consumers' high expectations of more control, better information, and versatile communications capabilities.

The Business Challenge
Changing business demands are forcing organizations to adapt and evolve faster than ever. From production facility to operations, materials packing to supplies, sales to support, and back to product innovation, manufacturers face challenges on all fronts across their enterprises. All are concerned with how to manage time, cost, quality and growth issues, all decisive factors in their success competitively.

Streamline Time-to-Market
To keep ahead of the competition, today's manufacturers are challenged to streamline their business process and move products to market more quickly than ever before.

Improve Employee Effectiveness
As business performance is affected by how well a workforce responds to everything from market challenges to customer needs, improving employee effectiveness can have a positive impact on a company’s bottom-line.

Enhance Customer Communications
To meet the challenge of effectively differentiating business in today's consumer economy, customers' experiences need to be enhanced through more personalized services and a wider range of distribution channels.

Speed Market Expansion
With tremendous pressure to expand markets, the challenge is to find cost-effective alternatives that reach globally.

Build an Information Management Infrastructure
Today's manufacturers require a solid foundation that can meet the demands of current applications while adapting to meet changing market conditions and the needs of customers, suppliers, and employees.

Solution Approach
The dynamic nature of today’s business with its fast pace of change drives enterprises to work hard to maintain a competitive edge. Enterprises can easily run short of time to build and deploy new solutions or re-engineer existing systems to support their critical business needs, while discarding the legacy
systems that become prohibitively expensive. To answer such formidable business challenges, SourceEdge focuses on the use of Solution Blueprints and the Rapid Application Development (RAD) model. SourceEdge’s Solution Blueprint Model helps us to build and deliver quick effective solutions to clients.

The unique features of our Solution Blueprint Model suit today’s business needs

• Platform independent
• Highly flexible, scalable, robust architecture
• Vertical centric business solution
• Model once and deploy anywhere
• Lower development costs
• Reduced maintenance cost and less dependency
  
  

Blue print development approach Business Requirements Analysis Process:
Business analysis through Process definition and diagram, User Activities and Use cases, Collaboration and UML diagram. Business Entities Design:
Business process documentation through Application use cases, Module definition, System architecture, UML class diagram and GUI design. Application Development Automation:
Business logic definition through Prototype, Automatic code generation, Proof of concept, Module design and Deployment. Quality Process Automation:
Business validation through System and compliance testing, Initial system integration testing, Data verification and Implementation.


Business Requirement Analysis Process:
This is the first phase of the solution building process, SourceEdge works in collaboration with its clients to identify the functional requirements transforming these into technical requirements. The business goal of this phase is to

• Understand the business process and define the user and their functions
• Identify the business entities
• Identify the process tasks and defining the business use cases.

Business Entities Design:
The output of the first phase is input of this phase, where business requirements are defined and transformed into a technical document of application use cases, modules, system design & architecture, and user interfaces.

The business goal of this phase is to

• Understand and enumerate the workflow tasks
• Define the application use case and identification of classes
• Perform relational mapping between identified classes
• Identify the business entities
• Prepare a UML diagram and design user interfaces

Application Development Automation:
The output of the Business Entities Design phase will be a framework that enables the generation of codes automatically for different modules of the application. The code is generated using SourceEdge’s proprietary RAD tool. The business goal of this phase is to Develop the business logic Develop productive code and semi-workable program Refine the User Interfaces Perform checks on transactions

Quality Process Automation:
As application testing occurs at each incremental stage of design and development, in the final phase of quality verification, the process is easy to implement, test and deliver.

The business goal of this phase is to

• Evaluate the application for performance
• Use automation tools to enhance the quality
• Fine tune
• Test and implement the system

Solution Benefits

• Solution Blue print addresses most of the business challenges in the initial stage and hence gives increased efficiency and higher profitability
• Flexibility to tailor the solution to match exact needs
• Ready solution framework-to-code, develop and implement
• Customer to derive rapid time to deploy and return on investment

Manufacturing Industry Solution Benefits

• Enterprise Resource Planning
  
  

• Supply Chain Management
  

• Customer Relationship Management

Technology Approach

• Platform independent
• Development choice between C# and Java
• Process driven Development model
• Highly flexible, scalable, robust architecture
• Automated development approach using RAD tool