Purple Consulting

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Purple Consulting

• Procurement Supply Management Solutions

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Content

• About Purple Consulting
• Sourcing Challenges
• Procurement Landscape
• Strategic Thrust Areas
• Approach and Delivery
• Customers
• Next Steps

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About Purple Consulting
Pedigree
Mission
Track record

• Promoted by technocrats with vast domain biz
  expertise
• Over 4 years of biz consulting solutions and
  services delivery
• Global partnerships with various consulting
  outfits
• Technology partnerships with leading vendors

We are a solutions and services company offering
ebiz consulting solutions We leverage high end
domain, software and services to bring
comprehensive ebiz value to mid sized global
markets We undertake Definition, Design,
Development and Deployment of ebiz solutions
using ready-2-deploy apps frameworks
Serial Systems eBridgeX.com CWT
Logistics Pernec Group Saudi Aramco
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Procurement Challenges

• Pricing
• Market Price not always known.
• Tools to support pricing strategy.
• Negotiation time.
• Person dependent negotiation
• skills may lead to Sub-Optimum
• Pricing
• Complex Aggregation purchase
• process.
• Supplier Cartels

• Sourcing
• Supplier identification /qualification
• is time consuming
• Limited Supplier visibility.
• Disseminating RFQs to Supplier.
• Supplier Consolidation.

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Evolution of Procurement Outsourcing

• Global majors are hiving off their procurement
  operations for both strategic non-strategic
  items
• Current trend is only with large corporate who
  deal with leading Procurement Services vendors
  viz., FreeMarkets, VerticalNet, Accenture etc.
• Growing trend in mid-tier emerging corporate to
  hive-off procurement supply management process
• Major initiatives taken by corporate in India,
  Europe, USA predominantly in the Automotive /
  Engineering sector
• Other sectors will follow soon

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Procurement Landscape
Source
Strategic Sourcing Mgmt (SSM)
Demand Anal Forecasting Acc Process Opt
Consulting Spend Analysis Suppl Risk
Anal Allocation Str.
- Consultancy - Services - Applications -
Solution Impl
Procure
Consume
Plan
Procurement
Manufacturing
Demand Planning optimization
Contract Admin Suppl Perf Rtng Suppl Perf Anal
Catalog/Proc Engn RFP / RFQ Dyn Bidding Reverse
Auction
Supplier Reln Mgmt (SRM)
Manage
Sourcing Procurement Circuit
Transaction flow
Sourcing--Procurement elements
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Strategic Thrust Areas
Procurement intranet Supplier extranet Cost mgmt
solution Alliance with Partners
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Procurement Consultancy
Steps
Problem Assessment
Prioritization
Recommendation
Implementation
Scoping
Methodology
Objective
Strategic Sourcing Mgmt (SSM)
Spend analysis Supplier portfolio
analysis Suppliers optimization
Areas
Procurement
Catalog Buying RFP / RFQ Reverse Auctions
Supplier relationship Mgmt (SRM)
Contract Admin Supplier Perf Rating Supplier Perf
Analysis
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What do you need Consulting

• Strategic Sourcing Management
• Spend Analysis
• Supplier Portfolio Analysis
• Supplier Optimization

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What do you need Solution

• Operational Process
• Vendor Development Management
• RFP/ Tender Processing
• Quote Management
• Contract / PO Management
• Supply Management
• Business Intelligence
• Reports on various activities to target customers
  personalized to role being played by members
• Executive Cock-Pit for enhanced MIS,
  decision-making etc.

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Purple Consulting

• B2B Product Offering

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PEP eBusiness Solutions Footprint

• SELL
• SCM - Distribution Mgmt
• eChannel
• Content Management
• eCDM
• CRM
• eCRM

• BUY
• eSourcing
• eBid, eBuy, eCat
• SCM Supply Management
• eChain
• eProcurement
• eBid, eBuy, eCat eChain

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PEP Enterprise Solutions Map
Supply Management
Spend Analytics
Business Intelligence
SRM
SCM
CPM
PTN
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PEP Architecture
Procurement Reverse Auctions

• Reverse Auctions are dynamic bidding events
  conducted by a Buyer
• Buyer communicates his requirements with
  identified Suppliers
• Suppliers discuss and bid in real time

Collaborative RFP / RFQ

• RFP / RFQ events where Buyers and Suppliers
  collaborate on drawings,
• documents and specifications
• Buyers and Suppliers negotiate online

Catalog Buy

• View up to date parameterized product
  information
• Buy using pre-negotiated, pre-approved product
  catalogs
• Line Users can order directly without Buyer
  intervention

Supply Management

• Automate post Order process
• Exchange Purchase Orders, Order Acceptances,
  Inspection Calls, ASNs, GRNs,
• Inspection Reports, Invoices and Payment status
  online

Spend Analytics

• Analyze company spend to identify opportunities
  for controlling/reducing
• costs
• Analyze using multi-attribute parameters and
  schemas

EAI

• Integrate seamlessly to back-end ERP systems
• Push Pull info thru automatic scheduling
  remote database connectivity
• mechanism

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PEP Product Portfolio

• eBID Sourcing using the Reverse Auction
  methodology
• eBUY Collaborative RFQ process
• eCAT Automating the MRO / non-BoM buying
  process
• eSCM Supply Management solution
• eVRM Supplier Discovery and Qualification
  Process
• eCMD Content Creation, Management Delivery
• eEAI Enterprise Application Integration
  Toolkit for seamless integration to back-end ERP,
  third-party solutions
• eAdmin Administrative tools for BPM, Workflow,
  Parameterization etc.

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Framework Architecture
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Design Approach
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Architecture

• Three-tier architecture
• Web Server
• Database Server
• Security
• Login Authentication
• SSL Security
• Firewall
• Component Architecture
• System Validation
• Client-side events
• DB events
• Transaction processing with DB server
• Extensive use of Stored Procedures, triggers to
  avoid load on the client side
• Speedy response

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Utilities

• General
• Re-usable components
• Security
• Single sign-on
• Multi-level security Management
• Personalization
• User Profiling Access Management
• Directory Services
• Contact Management
• Event Management
• Notification Management
• Routing Management
• Audit Recovery
• Revision Management / Audit Trail
• Automated backup
• System
• Event Management
• Exception Analysis
• Session Tracking Analytics

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USP

• Work-flow Management
• Rule based deployment
• Collaborative Commerce
• Pre-automated business process
• Multi-platform deployment
• Reduced TCO
• Business Intelligence
• Shortened Implementation time-frame
• Ease of customization

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Solutions Approach
Customer expectation
Purple Skills
Purple Approach
Strategy
Consulting capability around domain and IPR
Identify and analyze my business problem
Solution Blueprint
Business solutioning Capability, Project
Managing
Define and Design the solution
RISING EXPECTATIONS
MORE COMPETENCIES
Solution Configuring/ Customize
Develop as per my definition
Implementation capability
Go live
Deploy and get me started
Training and other services capability
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Delivery Methodology
Value Scoping
Consulting / Domain led Value study
Services
Apps Frameworks
Value Delivery - Models
Licensed Applications
Custom Development
ASP Services
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Case Study Semicon SCM

• Leading contract manufacturer, procurement agent
  of semi-conductor components in Asia-Pacific
• Operations in six Asia-Pacific countries, Europe
  USA
• Manufacturing facilities in Singapore, China
  Malaysia
• S250m turnover listed organisation in Singapore
• Sub-contracted procurement supply management
  manufacturer for HP, Apple, SUN, Siemens, Molex,
  Vertex
• Major shareholders include Citibank, UPS, DBS
  Bank etc.
• Deployed a full-fledged procurement supply
  management portal to manage operations with OEM /
  vendors / clients through a market-place solution
  electronically

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Benefits Procurement

• Streamlining of enquiry processing by integrating
  with SAP.
• Multi- team collaboration with suppliers (Design,
  Production, Materials) on a real-time basis.
• Reduction in communication cost by 30
  (Telephones, Faxes etc)
• Focus on strategic sourcing and value-added
  activities.
• Shorten sourcing cycles by an average of 15 to
  20
• Reduction in Purchasing cost by 10

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Benefits Supply Management

• 20-30 reduction in document cost.
• 20-30 reduction in communication expenditure.
• 30 reduction in inventories.
• 10-20 reduction in material inward time.
• Reduced stock out and lower lead time, due to
  auto-replenishment.
• 25-30 Reduction in buyers day-to-day
  non-strategic activities, thus
• giving him more time to work on strategic
  sourcing.

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Customers

• Maxis Telecom, Malaysia
• Astro Telecom, Malaysia
• Accenture Consulting, Malaysia
• Serial Systems, Singapore
• eBridgeX.com, Singapore
• CWT Logistics, Singapore
• PERNEC, Malaysia
• SmartBridge Technologies, South Africa
• Hyperlink, Middle East
• GE Information Systems, Asia-Pacific
• Socgen-Crosby, Asia-Pacific Japan
• Societe Generale Bank, Japan
• Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia
• DRB-Hicom, Malaysia

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Getting Started
OUR CUSTOMER VALUE APPROACH
1. Value Study
2. Value Proposal
3. Flexible Delivery Plan
4. Solution Implementation
Purple has these critical skills to define,
design, develop and deploy the solution around
Purples ebusiness solution suite
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Questions!!!
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Its our pleasure!!!!!
Srikanth SESH 91.98923.27167 ssrikanth_at_purpleglob
al.com www.purpleglobal.com