Digital & Supply Chain Transformation for a Global NVOCC Major
About The End-Client
Mphasis Group, a global, multicultural organization headquartered in Bengaluru, India, specializes in providing a suite of application development and maintenance services, infrastructure outsourcing services, and business & knowledge process outsourcing solutions to clients around the world.
Hesol was engaged as the operations/process partner by Mphasis to execute this project by bringing in diverse knowledge in supply chain project executions and lead the business analysis team as well.
About ECU Worldwide: Global leader in LCL consolidation, enabling seamless cargo movements across 180 countries, more than 2400 direct trade lanes, and door-to-door deliveries in over 50 markets. End-to-end International Supply Chain solutions that include LCL, neutral FCL, air freight, and a number of value-added services, customized to customer’s specific requirements. With the cutting-edge digital logistics platform ECU360, customer can ship in just a few clicks and benefit from its plethora of features like 24×7 instant quotes, convenient bookings, real-time sailing schedules, easy cargo tracking, dashboards and analytics, secure API/EDI integration, etc. Our digital ecosystem also includes value-added services like trucking, cargo insurance, etc.
SCOPE OF WORK
Functional Areas
• LCL
• FCL
• Air Freight
• Warehouse management
• Custom Clearance
• Service Jobs
• Settlement
• Ops Accounting
• Tariff Management
• Trucking
• Master Data Management
Operational Areas
• Export
• Import (Including Trans-shipment process)
• Ops Accounting
• Maintenance
• Operational KPI’s & Reporting
Activities:
Current State Understanding
Drive sessions to gather understanding of AS-IS business process
Create value stream and business capability matrix
Provide input for Domain model
Support sessions to gather country specific requirements
Understand current operational KPI’s that are being monitored
Drive the playback (Validations) sessions
Observations & SOD
Comparison of AS-IS process against industry standards
Draft high level functional requirements
Draft controls that should be put in place
Bring trends/ industry best practices as deemed for the client
Identify process not followed & as seen in the industry
Identify avenues for improvement/automation
Listing the reporting requirements
Identifying legal and statutory requirements
Recommend operational KPI’s as well as business metrics to measure
Assist in application convergence exercise
High Level Approach
Assist in shortlisting / identify products/systems for the identified gaps (Build vs Buy)
Blueprinting Plan
Provide inputs for creating & finalizing the blueprinting plan
Business process workshop &
BRD
Create TO-BE capability/ process
Drive the playback sessions
Input for the BRD documents and key controls
Draft country specific localization requirements
Identify measurable business & operational KPI’s
Architecture Designing
Assist in identifying modules that would be required for meeting the desired business capabilities
Plan & Final Report
Create Business capability /value stream clusters for individual MVP’s
Provide inputs and validate the MVP plan
Identify potential risks from execution standpoint
Participate in the report playback sessions
DELIVERABLES
Tools & Techniques Used:
- Outside In View
- Benchmarking
- Secondary Market Research
- Primary Market Research
- Functional Deployment Map
Discovery and Blueprinting Phase Deliverables:
AS -IS Business Capability Matrix & Value Stream
AS-IS Process Flows
AS-IS operational KPIs
Input for Domain model
Comparison of AS-IS process against industry standards/best practices
Country specific localization requirements
Reporting requirements
Legal and statutory requirements
POV on avenues for improvement/automation
TO-BE Business Capability Matrix & Value Stream
TO-BE operational KPIs & business metrics
Prioritized high level functional requirement
BRD and key controls
Transactions flows
Inputs for identifying modules that would be required for meeting the desired business capabilities
Business capability /value stream clusters for individual MVPs
Inputs for creating MVP plan
Risks from execution standpoint
RESULTS
Discovery Workshop
- Lead 4-weeks workshop in India with 40+ participants
- Design thinking approach: 3Ws, Application & Process Disruption Appetite & Process Importance (Evolution vs Revolution)
- AS-IS process, Applications, Integrations,
- MDM, Architecture, ECU360
- Transformation Themes
As-Is processes are mapped, reviewed and presented; A total of 41 Clusters and 150+ As-Is processes are reviewed and Signed off.
Outside In View:
- 15+ Market SMEs and Leaders are reached out to through Primary and Secondary Market Research
- 77 Benchmarking Best Practices are documented as Outside In View
- The Areas are Customer Experience, Operational Efficiency, and Cost Efficiency
To-Be Design (Key Themes):
- Intelligent Document Management
- Enhanced User-Experience
- Integration
- Business Rules for Automation
- Workflow Task-Events
- MDM
- Notifications and Alerts
- RPA Implementation
89 To-Be Processes are Designed / Re-imagined. Detailed Workflows are developed for each of the process and got Signed Off.