The economic downturn poses the challenge of revenue shortfalls and depleting profit margins for businesses. It is, therefore, imperative for enterprises to reduce costs, improve customer service, and responsiveness. In such a scenario a supply network with cohesive linkages between disjointed, but critical business partners such as contract manufacturers, suppliers, and customers assumes enormous significance. SAP’s Supply Network Collaboration (SNC) solution facilitates sharing of supply and demand information between enterprises and its business partners and meets the objective of reducing overall inventory across the supply chain and driving bottom-line improvements.

Patni SNC Services
Patni has partnered with SAP to offer a SNC solution that helps organizations recover the cash trapped in the supply chain and boost profit margins by as much as 5-6 percent. Patni’s SAP SNC services extend from readiness assessment to implementation and support by leveraging its SAP expertise, and supply chain competency along with a deep rooted customer-centric approach.

Patni's SAP specialists leverage their understanding of the client's business and the challenges therein to make sure that the solution delivers bottom-line improvements. The team of experts defines expectations regarding the functional and financial gains to justify the ROI of the solution.

Benefits
Patni's SAP-SNC services provide a cost-effective and rapidly deployable solution for enterprises in eliminating inefficiencies in the supply chain process. The service model facilitates greater, more efficient collaboration between enterprises and external business partners. It helps them gain global visibility of inventory and demand, improve customer service, and increase revenue while reducing inventory levels on all sides leading to reduced stock levels, shorter time-to- market and integrated value chains. Patni's SAP-SNC services promise:

• 5-6% improvement in profit margins
• Fast track implementation in 10-12 weeks due to speed-to-value-approach and quicker rollout
• Reduced inventory costs and improved supply fill rate and supply exception management
• Short payback period
• Increased ROI.