ShopClues Deploys Decision Support System At Lower Cost

ShopClues.com, India’s first and largest fully-managed online marketplace, announces the deployment of the Decision Support System (DSS) at the back-end that enables the automatic selection of the most suitable courier partner for delivering a product. This intelligent support system will bring tremendous operational efficiency for ShopClues that services over 70,000 peak orders in a day.   

 

This cutting-edge DSS feature has been built in-house by the ShopClues team with the objective of eliminating the inefficiencies involved in manual selection of the courier partner for each order placed on the site. DSS will help in reducing courier costs and delivery time, since the most efficient and cost-effective courier partner will be selected by an automatic process. 

“The benefits of the augmented efficiency will be passed on directly to customers resulting in better savings and an enhanced shopping experience for them. It will also induce transparency in selection of the courier partner and will allow improved management of the growing business volume on ShopClues.com,” said Sanjay Sethi, CEO & Co-Founder, ShopClues.

“Our network of +12 courier partners delivers to nearly 15,000 destinations across India - which is the largest for any e-commerce site in the country. While the DSS will bring operational efficiency for us, it will allow merchants to offer improved delivery terms to customers on our platform,” he added.    

The system’s weighted decision-making method removes the manual intervention in courier selection and arrives at the best-suited courier partner using a pre-defined algorithm. The system will work at the back-end in alignment with ShopClues Velocity, the best-in-class fulfillment service offered to all merchants selling on this platform. 

For each order placed on ShopClues.com, the most-suitable courier partner is selected by an automated process on the basis of pin code serviceability, minimum delivery time, minimum shipment cost and the capability to service high-value orders. DSS will also enable better service on high-value orders and reduce the number of cases where an order is returned from the courier hub due to value restrictions. 

The system captures the maximum values serviceable, as defined by each courier partner. The DSS will also help ShopClues to handle embargo situations effectively - so, if a courier goes out of service then one can switch them off instantaneously. With this improved efficiency, the patrons of ShopClues.com can look forward to an enhanced experience of shopping from the site.

Dilipkumar Khandelwal New MD Of SAP Labs India

SAP today announced the appointment of Dilipkumar Khandelwal as Managing Director for SAP Labs India. Effective immediately, Dilipkumar will be responsible for driving customer-led innovations and operations across SAP Labs India facilities in Bangalore, Gurgaon and Pune. Based in Bangalore, his role as Managing Director is in addition to his current Global role as Senior Vice President and Head of Suite Engineering at SAP.

 “SAP Labs India has showcased leadership that has driven the organization to excel in innovation and product development. The team in India has contributed significantly to SAP’s products and technologies and plays a key role in the SAP ecosystem,” said Clas Neumann, Senior Vice President and Global Head of the SAP Labs Network. “Dilipkumar’s leadership will be an asset in spearheading the next wave of innovation coming out of SAP Labs India.” 

Dilipkumar has been with SAP for over 13 years in various roles. He began his career as a Technology Consultant and engaged with several large customers to help them realize value out of their IT investments. He has handled roles in Consulting, Development, Quality & Partner Enablement and has been recognized for his business leadership several times. He was conferred the SAP Leader of the Year award.

 “Being a part of a network of 14 Labs in 13 countries, SAP Labs India plays a key role in the SAP ecosystem by contributing significantly to SAP’s products and technologies,” said Dilipkumar Khandelwal, Managing Director, SAP Labs India. “I am excited to take on this additional responsibility and closely work with the team to drive customer relevant solutions by leveraging on the latest technology innovations from SAP Labs.”

 Bridging the gap between local market demands and SAP's development organization, SAP Labs India is SAP's third largest Research & Development and Global Services & Support center in the world. SAP Labs India contributes to all areas of the SAP product value chain- Research & Breakthrough Innovation, Product Development, Global Services & Support and Customer Solutions & Operations.

TE Completes Acquisition Of Raychem RPG India

 

TE Connectivity (TE), a world leader in connectivity, has announced it has completed the acquisition of the telecom business of Raychem RPG (RRPG), a joint venture company co-owned by TE and RPG Enterprises. The acquired business will now become part of TE's Network Solutions segment.

 As part of the acquisition, TE recently inaugurated the new manufacturing facility in Vasai, Mumbai, which will be the hub for telecommunication engineering services supplying the fiber market in the Southeast Asia region. With this acquisition, TE strengthens its local telecom engineering and manufacturing expertise in India. 

“We aspire to become the market leader in the telecommunications sector and the acquisition will further strengthen the foundation of our company, which is admired for outstanding customer service, technology leadership and product innovation,” said KK Shetty, director, India and SAARC, Network Solutions, TE India.

 RRPG was established in 1989 by Raychem Corporation and RPG Enterprises, and has completed 25 successful years in India. TE acquired Raychem Corporation in 1999, and the operations were run as a 50-50 joint venture between TE and RPG Enterprises. The joint venture company manufactures and markets cable joints, transformers and insulation products in the energy space which will continue and remain unaffected.

Leaders Discuss Role Of IT In Powering Future Growth

Microsoft India today organized the first ever MNC IT Summit in Bangalore. The Summit brought together over 70 leaders of India-based IT organizations of multinational corporations (MNCs), in an endeavor to shape their collective vision for the industry and identify areas for collaboration. The attendees represent Fortune Global and Forbes 1000 companies with combined annual revenues in excess of $2 trillion, employing six million people globally including more than one million in India.

The Global In-house Centers (GICs) of these multinational corporations provide a range of services to their parent multinational corporations – IT services, Business Process Management and Engineering Research & Development. India’s GIC exports are expected to reach $17 Billion in 2014.

The theme of the summit was “What will it take for the MNC IT Community to increase its impact ten-fold in five years?” The MNC IT leaders articulated their vision, approach and path forward for their community. They committed to work together in enhancing India’s IT brand to attract more MNCs to set up IT centers in India, and called for sharing of best practices to help expand existing centers and enable them move up the IT value chain by doing mission-critical work from India. 

The Summit included keynotes, panel discussions and focused workgroup sessions by prominent speakers from academia, business, government and media including Adil Zainulbhai (Senior Advisor, McKinsey) Prof. Anil Gupta (IIM Ahmedabad), Dr. Pramath Raj Sinha (Founding Dean of ISB, Founder Managing Director 9dot9 Networks), Dr. Raghunath Mashelkar (Former Chairman, CSIR), Rajesh Dalal (Senior Consultant – Healthcare & Former MD – Johnson & Johnson), Prof. S. Sadagopan (Director, IIIT Bangalore) and Som Mittal (ex-Chairman, NASSCOM).

The Microsoft MNC IT Summit 2014 was kicked off by Microsoft India Chairman Bhaskar Pramanik who said, “The IT-GICs have been playing an important role in adoption of cutting edge technology by their organizations. At Microsoft we are committed to strengthen the ecosystem with future-ready productivity and platform tools for the mobile-first, cloud-first world.”

Microsoft CIO Jim DuBois said, “It has been amazing to watch the IT industry grow and evolve in India. Cloud is the next big trend that is driving the next wave of IT growth and transformation, not just for large enterprises but also for SMBs, governments and citizens.”

Microsoft IT India Managing Director, Raj Biyani said, “By collaborating closely, the leaders of the MNC IT units can boost India’s IT ecosystem exponentially in the next five years.” He touched upon key insights from the three-year journey that fundamentally transformed Microsoft’s own IT-GIC into a talent hub. This transformation has been documented in recent case studies by Harvard Business School and the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta.

A documentary “Inventing the Zero, Reaching for Infinity: The Story of India and its IT Industry”, directed by Emmy Award winner Rafeeq Ellias, was unveiled at the summit which puts the spotlight on the role of MNC IT ecosystem’s symbiotic relationship with India and features perspectives of its leaders from the IT industry.

Dr. Sadagopan pointed out that IT centers in India are playing a leading role in establishing centers in other countries, including Vietnam and Argentina. Adil Zainulbhai, of McKinsey & Company, and editor of “Reimagining India: Unlocking India’s Potential” emphasized the vast untapped potential of India’s youthful economy.  In a panel discussion titled “Innovating and Winning from India”, Pramath Sinha, Dr. R.A. Mashelkar, Rajesh Dalal and Prof. Anil Gupta shared inspiring examples of successful innovations in India, what Dr. Mashelkar labeled as “affordable excellence.”

Som Mittal highlighted the contribution of the overall IT industry to India’s economy creating 3.2 million jobs and generating over $100 billion in exports. IT-GICs make a substantial contribution in this impact. He appreciated the spirit of collaboration among Indian IT organizations stating “there is no place elsewhere in the world where competitors collaborate so fiercely."

Registrations Now Open For Papers Of SUSECon 2014

SUSE is now accepting session proposals and attendee registrations for its annual global end-user conference, SUSECon 2014. To be heldNov. 17-21 at the Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress in Orlando, Florida, SUSECon will feature in-depth information on Linux plus the latest open source technologies such ascloud computing, big data and software-defined data center platforms. In addition, SUSE certification exams will be provided to conference attendees at no additional cost.

“Organizations today are having to deal with decreasing IT budgets alongside increasing demand for always-open enterprises,” said Kent Wimmer, director of global strategic events for SUSE. “SUSECon provides solutions and ideas to effectively address those competing priorities. A few days filled with keynotes by industry leaders, expert-led technical sessions, demos, case studies, technology showcases and opportunities to interact with other open source technology users and providers will pay valuable dividends in real-life implementations following the conference.”

Breakout sessions will address a wide variety of new and existing technologies, customer scenarios and deployments, and how-to guides for implementation of the latest open source technologies. To submit a session proposal, review the topics atwww.susecon.com/call-for-papers.html and follow the submission link.

For more information or to register for SUSECon as an attendee, visitwww.susecon.com. Early bird pricing is available through August 31.

Altem Technologies Wins India SME 100 Award

Altem Technologies, a Bangalore-based 3D printing Technology Company, was awarded the prestigious India SME 100 Award for 2013-14 in the IT / ITES segment. It is the first time that a company that is involved in 3D printing has been recognized for its efforts to promote the technology in the country. 

Altem Technologies is among the 5 award wins from the state of Karnataka and the only one from the IT / ITES segment for the state. There were several evaluation parameters, such as growth performance, innovation, financial soundness and international outlook for the award.

Speaking on the milestone, Prasad Rodagi, Founder Director – Altem Technologies (P) Ltd., said, “We’re elated on Altem Technologies being chosen as among the top 100 SMEs in the country. The award is a testament to our success thus far and to the growing 3D technology market in India. We believe that Altem’s efforts to promote and educate the people about 3D technology through efforts like printmyCAD.com, an experience platform for 3D Printing was one of the factors behind this award.” 

Sharath Chandra, Director, Sales – Altem Technologies (P) Ltd., said, “The wide applications of this technology can soon be predominant in various fields such as consumer goods, electronics, engineering, medical equipment, automobile, architecture, education, aerospace, defense, and design and art.” We hope we can continue to build this industry and contribute to development of manufacturing and design in India with 3D printing.” 

3D Printing is bringing about the next industrial revolution, and Altem is leading the change by innovating new ideas to enable manufacturers and designers to realise their products faster and in an economical way. 

Altem’s initiative, printmyCAD.com is an attempt to help people experience the benefits of 3D printing in various designs without any charges. It helps highlight how 3D printing technologies have accelerated the design process and helped achieve new dimensions in creativity and manufacturing.

Altem’s clients include leading Indian and Global companies across diverse segments viz automobile, architecture, aerospace, defense, medical, consumer durables, electronics, academia etc. For these organizations, happiness comes from bringing new ideas to the market faster and continuing to grow while keeping their teams productive. Altem passionately unites with these teams to take on today’s challenges for our customers and help them in achieving their innovation goals faster.

Laurels For JDA Soft At Puma Urban Stampede Race

JDA Software Group, Inc., the leading provider of Supply Chain Management solutions worldwide, announced that it has won yet again at the Puma Urban Stampede, held today at the Bhartiya City, Thanisandra Main Road Bangalore, organized by PUMA and Runners for Life.

The 2nd Runners Up prize was bagged by Pratibha Jose, Soundarya Singh, Reshma Deshpande, and Nikita Mokhariwale at the 4 X 5km corporate relay race in the women’s category. This is the 7th consecutive year win for JDA Software in the corporate category.

JDA has also been consistently bagging the Pulse of the Stampede award, given to the organization with maximum number of participants. This year, there were 120 associates (30 teams) who won it for JDA.

“We are once again delighted to participate in the PUMA Urban Stampede corporate relay race. With JDA’s support for our training and participation at this event, we have been able to bag another win.” said Nitin Gupta, who is heading the JDA Runners Club.

“Our participation in this run is since its inception in 2008 and we have been consistently winning. The win by women’s team this year adds yet another feather to JDA’s cap. In JDA, we not only provide opportunities to each of our associates to grow professionally by empowering them, but we also believe in supporting and promoting various wellness programs to groom their physical and mental health. Moreover, this also helps in demonstrating the value of teamwork amongst associates.” said Vinok Sequeira, group vice president of human resources, JDA Software.