Digital & Supply Chain Transformation for a Global NVOCC Major

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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

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ECU Worldwide, a Global NVOCC major!

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

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ECU Worldwide, a Global NVOCC major!

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):

  1. Intelligent Document Management
  2. Enhanced User-Experience
  3. Integration
  4. Business Rules for Automation
  5. Workflow Task-Events
  6. MDM
  7. Notifications and Alerts
  8. RPA Implementation

89 To-Be Processes are Designed / Re-imagined. Detailed Workflows are developed for each of the process and got Signed Off.

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