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To remain competitive, companies must understand the requirements for new generation supply chain management solutions and practices due to shrinking product life cycles, ongoing cost pressures, and growing variability in customer demand. However given this understanding, what is the biggest need? Simply put, it is the ability to look to a trusted advisor to deliver solutions to such problems. Fortunately the i2 India Global Solution Center (GSC) can fulfill new-generation delivery needs.
GSC Mission:
- Drive lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for customers
- Develop an organization of world-class people
- Be a center of resource excellence
- Projects execution excellence to drive higher customer satisfaction
- Build, deliver, and support ‘rapid deployments’
Started in 1996 GSC has a rich tradition in supply chain delivery with more than 300 person years of experience. It can count on a talent base of more than 200 i2 consultants and 20,000 partner resources serving the breadth of technology and solutions. GSC provides organizations with required quality, time to delivery, staffing stability, as well as domain and product knowledge.
Facts and Figures
- GSC provides > 45% of i2 consulting resources globally. 1 out of every 3 hours of i2 consulting done in India
- Delivered more than 150 customer upgrades/implementations since mid-2002
- Four Competency Centers in operation
- Extended offerings in business process consulting/services productization (see below)
- Very strong delivery management methods/processes
- Strong training and development focus–Cross training and deployment of resources
- Strong and successful partner model
- Established Processes
- Recruiting and training
- People strategy
- Project delivery
- Quality initiative
- Development services utilize i2 development TQM processes
In order to continue maintain and deliver these methods and processes GSC continues to look to develop and grow its talent base:
GSC Investments
- GSC has strength of more than 200 world-class software professionals, which it is looking to continually grow
- Rich international experience–Many are graduates with significant work experience in US, Europe, and Greater Asia Pacific
- Graduates of world-class institutes–More than 70 % are graduates of IIT’s, IIM’s, Tier-1 India institutions or from major international universities
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