“Innovation is the change that unlocks new value!”

Digitization of the supply chain is not a choice but an imperative. Emerging technologies have been constructive in enabling holistic analyzing and streamlining of the supply chain operations. The digitized supply chain empowers organizations to apprehend opportunities and overcome potential roadblocks.  Supply chain technologies promote agility that satisfies the customers’ demand, reach an accurate decision, increase efficiency and improve operations and business processes.

Along with a digitized supply chain, sustainability and resilience is the key to achieving competitive advantage! It is time we conceptualize innovations and strategies to fortify supply chains, making them resilient enough to thrive in the present and the future. Exploring and adopting Industry 4.0 solutions will certainly simplify supply chain processes, eliminate redundancy, track the entire process in real-time and reduce the imminent risk within the discipline.

Overview

NASSCOM CoE’s Enterprise Innovation Challenge-a first-of-its-kind initiative focused on The Digital Supply Chain Imperative (“The growing shift to smarter supply chains”) is dedicated to industry engagements and developing collective capabilities. Through this CoE aims to leverage the innovations created by the Indian entrepreneurs and to foster sustained engagement between Enterprises & Innovative Startups. The initiative has brought together the best minds from industry, academia, startups, and government to understand the pressing challenges/opportunities that exist in the supply and logistic sector. This episode of Enterprise Innovation Challenge witnessed deliberate on building an innovative platform for solving challenges in the supply chain. The object of the exercise is to endorse Supply Chain 4.0 for ennobling dexterity, enhancement, and competitive advantage in the industry!The theme of this event revolved around the growing shift towards Smarter Supply Chain. The EIC platform zeroed on the innovative approaches, trends, and technologies that are playing a crucial role in shaping the future of the supply chain.

Our various discussion topics and the expert panel shed light on how the supply chain industry has undergone a sea of change in the past few years & how the deep tech companies are rethinking their way to design to build future-fit supply chains.

Partners

A horde of budding and innovative startups have participated in the challenge. There was intense brainstorming, confabs, and anatomizing of thought-provoking ideas in the house for two months. The shortlisted startups set forth their groundbreaking technology solutions that could address the problem statements identified by Jubilant Food Works, Diageo & ABinBev.

We were fortunate to have great minds from academia, industry, and business who joined our journey supported us in evaluating the use-cases that helped startups in moving in the right direction in terms of developing the right technology that fits best to the proposed use-cases. Their inputs have extremely helped us in successfully paving the way for the Enterprise Innovation Challenge.

Partner Usecase

Problem Statement

Computer vision-based road and driver analytics platform to reduce vehicle breakdown and improve the distribution process compliance and reduce food safety risk

Description

Computer vision-based road and driver analytics and alert systems to keep the driver awake while driving. The camera feed used for driving analysis for better feedback and training. The video of road and driver available for post-accident analysis. Along with this, Temperature monitoring and deviation alerts along with Computer vision based real-time monitoring of vehicle loading/unloading process, any deviations against process are highlighted.

Problem Statement

Asset Register through bar code / RFID sensor to capture asset presence / movement across sites

Description

The company has fixed assets like Packaging Machines, Utility equipment, Tanks, Material handling trucks, Lab instruments etc. at various sites. All these fixed assets are to be labeled and mapped to a bar code and Sensors (e.g., RFID) to create a master list. This should enable for the easy traceability within and across sites. The bar codes should be enabled to link the asset in the SAP system

Problem Statement

Analysis and reduction of in-transit breakages by 50%

Description

Packed beer FG (bottles/CANs) are pressurized containers which if exposed to extreme handling, temperatures (or any other factor coming from analysis) may tend to burst/leak. This could also have a cascading effect on the carton damage in vehicles, leading to further breakages. An analysis of factors therein is hence imperative to understand what transpires enroute, determining actions for reducing/eliminating such losses.

Speakers & Mentors

Winners

Road Ahead!

We are looking forward to furthering events as such which will allow us to share the platform with great leaders and promising startups from the supply chain domain. This technology and innovation rendezvous will unlock new possibilities to overcome the challenges and enrich the supply and logistic industry!

Team Members

Navratan Katariya
Director-Innovation, Entrepreneurship-IoT&AI

Sushant Bindal
Head of Innovation Partnerships

Vasuki Kashyap
NASSCOM CoE (IoT & AI)

Mithilesh Waghmare
Deputy Manager

Kunal Kulkarni
Associate

Aparna Roy
Senior Associate for CoE IoT at Bangalore

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