Seio has been working with the manufacturing industry from the beginning, maintaining world-class quality and standards. With more than 370 person years of domain experience, Seio has helped companies to solve problems, achieve operational excellence and enhance business performance across the manufacturing continuum. Seio consultants have first-hand experience with a number of business issues, technologies, and sub-verticals in Manufacturing.

Expertise in the Manufacturing Industry

Seio’s Manufacturing Solutions traverse Buy (procurement), Make (production) and Sell (sales) boundaries to deliver across the enterprise, including finance, human resources, and costing. Our Manufacturing Solutions practice offers deep experience in numerous vertical industry sectors including:

• Automotive
• Hi-Tech and Electronics
• Consumer Goods
• Food & Beverages
• Transportation
• Paper and Pulp
• Pharmaceuticals

Competitiveness of manufacturing companies is driven by the ability to quickly launch new products, and speed time-to-market and order-to-cash cycles, simultaneously, reducing inventory and cost. Our dedicated solutions enable the companies to respond rapidly to changes. Seio has successfully addressed problem areas, such as:

• Supply Chain Management
• Product Life Cycle Management
• Inventory Optimization
• Marketing and Sales Systems
• Customer Information Management
• Operation Management
• Warehouse Management

Service Offerings in Manufacturing

Seio’s service offerings span the following areas in Manufacturing:
Legacy Maintenance & Enhancement

• Maintenance and enhancement of legacy systems ( Production support & bug fixing )
• Knowledge Management and make the transfer of responsibility operational
• Range of engagement models
• Range of risk-minimizing mechanisms

ERP- Implementation & Support

• Deployment of SAP, Baan, Oracle Applications and PeopleSoft
• Integration of ERP engine with key legacy/custom applications
• Customization/addition of functionality
• Ongoing maintenance and support

Embedded Software Solutions

• Design, development and testing of embedded software applications
• External validation of code written by clients using meticulous tools
• Migration-rewrite legacy applications to make them compatible with newer OS/hardware

Integration of Functional Packages

• Supply Chain Management: i2, Manugistics
• eProcurement: Ariba, Commerce One
• Customer Relationship Management (CRM) : Siebel, Broadvision
• Business Intelligence (BI) : Business Objects, Cognos, Brio

  Custom Application Development

  • Joint functional requirements definition and translate into technical requirements
  • Design of solution architecture, development and testing

  Remote Engineering

  • Legacy conversion: 2D, 3D
  • Simple/complex detail design from layout and Computer Aided Engineering (CAE)

  Validation & Verification

• Development of test cases based on functional requirements
• Programming and execution of test cases
• Acceptance testing (black-box testing) using various tools

Shared Services Solutions

• Implementation of packaged employee portal frameworks, custom development of a portal to automate select administrative functions (e.g. payroll, benefits, 401 K)
• Automation of business processes (change request, patent filing) using packaged workflow applications