Urconnect India provides outside assistance to the Senior Management Teams of various companies that calls for senior personnel, expertise or management bandwidth that currently isn't available internally. Urconnect India can help you increase your competitiveness by reducing throughput time, reducing lead times, increasing capacity, reducing costs, increasing flexibility, reducing inventory, and increasing quality, through selection and implementation of the right sourcing strategy for your company. At Urconnect India we believe sourcing to be a major facilitator of business transformation. As such, it demands board-level attention. If not, organizations run the risk that individual divisions/departments will make their own sourcing arrangements (mostly due to idiosyncratic interests, biased approach, obligations etc) wasting the opportunity to make sourcing strategic.

For Urconnect India, it is about Clients business agenda, not the outsourcing transaction or software solution that is at the vanguard of our mind. Our advice is genuinely independent, unbiased and is focused on finding the right solution/partner for clients requirements, be it through outsourcing (HR or IT), insourcing or setting up a shared services center. We help clients analyze their business needs/challenges, understand what the market has to offer and make sourcing decisions that are perfect fit for them. We combine our deep understanding of the industry sectors in which we operate, with functional expertise in the HR, IT and banking functions. We put together market-leading sourcing arrangements, which not only help our clients in facilitating the processes but the expected organizational change associated with the sourcing decisions.

Urconnect India has the relevant skills and experience to guide you through the entire sourcing life-cycle - from strategy definition to delivery and beyond. Following are the sourcing consulting services we offer as part of our consulting portfolio:

• Sourcing Analysis/Planning
• Domestic and International Negotiations
• Total Cost Comparisons
• Supply Chain Logistics and Analysis
• Identification/Development of Core Products/Processes
• Product Line/Component Sourcing
• Distribution and Logistics Sourcing
• Outsourcing Assessments
• Supplier Partnership Negotiations
• Procurement Organization Design
• Business Process Reengineering

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Typical assignments undertaken

1. Process and performance improvement

• Supply chain strategy development
• E-supply chain implementation
• Customer service improvement
• Smart logistics solutions for the SME's
• Inventory modelling and optimisation
• Preparation for inspection/Audits
• Optimised distribution infrastructures

2. People and organisational development

• Shared services development
• Culture change programmes
• Training Workshops
• Workforce planning in local authorities
• Outsourcing leadership development and coaching

3. Procurement

• Global sourcing
• Shared services implementation
• Design & Development of procurement policy

4. Programme and project management

• Project management for major software/hardware systems implementation
• Alignment of project teams around project goals and implementation programmes
• Programme management of major change programmes involving technological and people performance improvements

Why Urconnect India?

Proven and Repeatable Process

Our process is proven and adaptable to your unique industry needs. Applied properly, our process will make clients attain fast results than going through the process alone.

Contracts and Deals Database

Extensive reach to database of providers supplies key data points and industry knowledge for each type of deal.

Vertical Industry Expertise

We have extensive experience and knowledge about your industry issues. Our methodology transfers across vertical industry boundaries, and because we work with such a broad range of businesses and industries, our expertise runs wide and deep.

Functional Expertise

Our experts have functional expertise in Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Information Technology Outsourcing (ITO), Finance and Accounting (F&A), and Human Resources (HR) functions.

Flexibility

Our process is proven and adaptable to assist you in developing your sourcing strategy. Urconnect India helps clients with:

• Goals and scope shared by management team
• Communicate with providers and assess the best cultural fit
• Solution and transition process

If client’s procurement policies or regulatory environment require it, we may recommend a more traditional sourcing, non-collaborative approach.

Benchmarking

• Pricing benchmarks using our market knowledge and analysis
• Operational benchmarks to determine if client is using best practices
• Relationship benchmarks to develop a sustainable foundation for your sourcing relationship
• Contract benchmarks to assess if Client are within industry parameters

Our Domain Expertise for Sourcing consultancy services

• Automobile Industry
• Engineering Industry
• Information Technology
• Outsourcing (esp. HR and manpower)
• Educational Industry
• Entertainment & Media Industry
• Pet Industry
• Real Estate & Infrastructure Development
• Logistics & Distribution

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