Manufacturing

In actual globalised competition, boosting productivity and flexibility has become even more crucial to manufacturers. In a sector where consolidation is widespread and rising, relocating or outsourcing production sites became increasingly common practice. Manufacturers are also working to accelerate their new product turnover by reducing the time spent on development and production in addition to adapting products to local cultures and applications.

Tackling environmental and public health issues is a further challenge for these companies, which are under consumers' pressure to provide more ethical and eco-friendly products, while ensuring compliance with tighter international regulations.

Manufacturers are therefore looking for IT partners that can provide innovative solutions and services to allow them to reconciling performance to eco-friendly design and compliance to standards. Information systems must facilitate traceability and knowledge sharing for all the parameters involved in producing and delivering products (choice of materials, production sites, subcontractors, human resources, etc.). The goal is twofold: to guarantee that quality control is maintained from the design stage to recycling of products and to ensure that the entire industrial chain can be audited.

Steria engineers apply their RFID and M2M(1) expertise worldwide to roll out collaborative solutions and services for knowledge sharing between manufacturers and their subcontractors, supply chain optimisation and traceability management. The Group can also run all or part of its manufacturing customers’ information systems, as part of its managed services offer and within a secure environment.


Product Lifecycle Management and Product Information Systems
As product design data (materials, toxicity, functions, etc.) are relevant to all company departments, from marketing to after-sales services, Steria has developed an innovative integration offer that facilitates the convergence of PLM(2) management systems and corporate information systems.

Integrating PLM data into a company’s vertical applications allows it to accelerate the time-to-market of higher quality products and makes updating these products a much faster process. Simulations can also be created for market research purposes, developing competitive price strategies and drawing up technical or regulatory instructions. Steria’s teams play a role in integrating key PLM systems, providing technical and operational consulting, project integration and change management services.

Manufacturers can also call on Steria to simplify the process of integrating ERP systems with other applications with a view to rolling out highperformance Business Intelligence solutions. Steria is building on its ERP expertise in a European skill centre, which offers tool-based methodologies for implementing services in line with best practices.


(1) M2M: Machine-to-Machine.
(2) PLM: Product Life Management.