Services to the Technology Sector

The Technology industry continues to reinvent itself, with a pace that few other industries can even contemplate. The dynamics in the sector are clear:

• Huge and constant pressures for cost reduction.
• Long supply chains, where the profits are being realized by a few players, mainly upstream.
• Continuous innovation in product enhancement,
• Migration of operations to lower cost economies.

In this environment, companies need to enhance their ability to innovate and compete along all dimensions of the business. Orbsen Consulting can help technology companies face this challenge. Selected examples are as follows:

• In semi-conductor operations and other technology sectors, step movements in demand at the end-consumer level, have traditionally been amplified into boom and bust cycles, as seen by the producers. Orbsen services in the areas of Demand Management can help management deal with these situations.
• Given the huge costs in some sectors of growing the capacity and capability envelope, Orbsen services addressing both capacity management in the 1-12 months horizon and additionally multi-year capacity management are very salient to those organizations facing capacity choice.
• The multi-stage supply chains that exist in the technology sector, from semi-conductor and component producers, through manufacturing services companies, and all the way to OEM’s and distributors, is very amenable to structured inventory analysis and Inventory Reduction techniques. Orbsen’s breakthrough service offering in this area can makes a significant difference to asset investment in working capital.
• Sales and Operations Planning approaches for the 1-12 month horizon and 1-3 year horizon are particularly relevant to allowing management in large technology operations retain strategic and operational control of the business dynamics associated with the supply of major product families. This is a prudent and necessary process because of the corporate revenue impact of such products. Learn more about the 1-12 month S&OP process and the strategic S&OP process.
• For those interested in strategic cost reduction in operations, Orbsen offers a breakthrough approach in the analysis of conversion costs, and the linkage of cost drivers in operations to those conversion cost elements. The purpose is to enable a strategic programme aimed at moving the change levers that are going to favourably impact costs and margin.
• In the case of Enterprise Resource Planning, Orbsen offers services aimed at harvesting the value of already implement ERP systems.
• For those companies seeking to implement or upgrade ERP systems, Orbsen can offer programmatic support for such projects.

Orbsen has deep competencies in several functional areas and business sectors. Orbsen offers structured services aimed at creating value for client organizations by addressing a broad range of client needs.

• In the area of Supply Chain Management, featured services include strategic inventory reduction, sales and operations planning, planning architecture development, harvesting value from Enterprise Resource Planning, procurement, demand management and customer service.
• In the area of Operations Management, featured services address best practices in operations, strategic cost of goods management and improvement of overall equipment effectiveness. In pharmaceutical operations in particular, the operations management of the quality assurance and laboratory functions can bear equal importance to operations management of production.
• In the area of Strategy, offerings include strategic analysis, strategy development, portfolio management, measurement of business value and benchmarking. Programme management services are also offered in a variety of areas.
• In the area of Information Technology Management, services are offered in the areas of enterprise platform selection in both Tier 1 and Tier 2 contexts, deployment support, executive information systems selection and deployment, and overall IT strategy development.
• Orbsen also offers a la carte General Consultancy, exploiting broad based competencies and methodologies.