The document describes YASH Technologies' Portal Accelerator program for the chemical industry. The 12-week program aims to deliver critical business information through portals to improve manufacturing operational excellence, supply chain collaboration, and customer service. It leverages YASH's expertise in enterprise applications and portals to transform businesses in a short timeframe and predictable costs. The program identifies priority areas for each company and implements portal solutions in iterative 8-week phases using YASH's proprietary methodology.

1. Enterprise Portal Solutions
for the Chemical Industry
YASH Portal Accelerator Programs…
Creating Adaptive Chemical Networks
A New Class of Portal for Every Chemical Company
As chemical industries have expanded from predominantly localized businesses to global corporations, they have
invested heavily in ERP and other enterprise systems, portals, and other E-business applications. These systems have
delivered important benefits, but have often left key management, process owners, plant managers, and staff hungry
for real-time, consolidated, personalized views of key metrics and actionable intelligence to make decisions.
Building on many years of ERP, E-business, and chemical industry experience, YASH Technologies has developed a Portal
Accelerator program for the chemical industry, designed to deliver important benefits through a highly efficient, 12-
week process. Unlike Portal ‘QuickStart’ or ‘JumpStart’ programs of the last 8-10 years, the YASH Portal Accelerator
program is designed to deliver mission-critical information to focused groups of business and operational managers,
partners or customers of your company. The program’s goal is to leverage the speed and ease of portal technology to
deliver critical information that is often buried in more traditional systems.
YASH Portal Accelerator Program - Transforming Business in 12 Weeks
Based on our deep domain knowledge and best practices, we have developed solutions around three challenge areas
that are common among chemical companies: Manufacturing Operational Excellence, Supply Chain Collaboration,
and Customer Service. Each solution area identifies opportunities for improved business performance. Some of the key
features of the YASH Accelerator Program include:
Designed to accelerate realization of measurable business results using our accelerated portal solutions
Time-boxed into 12 week durations by identifying the key priority for your organization and delivering on it,
followed by another 12 week modular solution
Implementation done across four different phases using our proprietary, portal implementation approach
called YASH Approach in an iterative fashion; typically each implementation is realized in eight week
iterations

2. Key Benefits Realized from Evolution of an Adaptive Chemical Network – The Way Forward
the Accelerator Program
are: In today's turbulent economic environment, chemical industries are forced to look
beyond supply-driven efficiencies and create an adaptive chemical ecosystem and
- Delivery of essential and can sense and respond in real time to end-customer signals. Let YASH help your
business transformational company move in the evolutionary direction of an adaptive business network with
functions in shorter cycle small, manageable steps in a continuous cycle of build, execute, and adapt.
times and predictable
costs Our chemical industry solutions, coupled with the Portal Accelerator Program,
- Ability to leverage provide the ideal platform for companies to begin this journey by initially
existing investments on implementing one of the following solutions using a portal as the delivery vehicle,
enterprise applications followed by another solution in each subsequent 12 week cycles.
and IT assets
Manufacturing Operational Excellence
Supply Chain Collaboration
Customer Service
Manufacturing Operational Excellence
Ensures constant innovation in products and services, creates lean and agile manufacturing processes,
enables collaboration across fragmented plant facilities, and retains and motivates workforce.
Plant Operations Management: Integration of data from ERP, process control systems, manufacturing
execution systems (MES), and material safety data sheets (MSDS). Provides support for production
planning and execution, batch/continuous production, predictive/preventative plant maintenance,
and product and process quality reporting
New Product Life Cycle Management: Providing an integrated environment for engineers,
manufacturers, suppliers, sales and marketing to effectively share information, collaborate, and
improving product quality with integration of MSDS and Laboratory Information Management Systems
(LIMS)
Project Portfolio Management: Features include Project Selection using scorecards, Project
Scheduling, Resource Allocation, Progress Tracking, and Project Dashboard
KPIs and Dashboards: Role-based dashboards for access to real-time and event-based data from
production, order fulfillment, supply chain and logistics, and human resources information systems
Collaboration and Knowledge Management: Key features include global collaboration tools like
instant messaging, discussion forums, wikis, blogs, podcasts and enterprise content management
systems
Employee Self-Service: Provides online functionality for performing self-service transactional
services such as recruiting, performance assessment, learning management, travel and expense
management

3. Supply Chain Collaboration
Enables collaborative business processes across the extended supply chain to
improve business agility and better respond to changes in supply and demand.
Supply Chain Visibility: Integration with existing systems for Global
Inventory Visibility, Logistics Management, Inbound and Outbound Visibility,
and Supplier Management
Supplier Management: Features include Supplier Sourcing, Procurement,
Supplier Collaboration, and Supplier Performance Management
Transportation Management: Features include Driver and Vehicle
Allocation, Route and Fuel Optimization, and Driver Management
Warehouse Management: Features include Inbound Processing, Outbound
Processing, and Facility Layout Optimization and Storage
Inventory Management: Features include Global Inventory Management
across multiple locations, supplier integration for better inventory
Customer Comments replenishment, and demand forecasting
“YASH has become an Order Management: Features include order consolidation across all
indispensable part of channels, real-time inventory visibility, dynamic sourcing of inventory across
Terra's IT infrastructure. locations, and real-time visibility into the status of order
With their extensive
knowledge and quick
response to Terra
Industries' needs we have
met our users' requests in Customer Service
a timely manner with
limited IT staff. You Helps you execute on the B2C strategy by building brand awareness, enabling
couldn't ask for a more online transactions and service delivery, and promoting sales.
knowledgeable team than
YASH”
Sales Order Management: Features include order entry, order fulfillment,
-Director - IT pricing and billing, and historical data analysis and decision support
Terra Industries Inc.
Opportunity Management: Helps track customers across different channels
(web sites, dealer network, and overseas agents) to gain visibility into
opportunity history, progress, and key decision makers and includes features
like customer segmentation, profitability analysis, and lead and opportunity
analysis
Service and Complaint Management: Allows resolution of customer
complaints to better manage product returns, recalls and billings by providing
access to product and service information sources such as MSDS, TDS or CoA
Customer Self-Service: With features like searching products, checking order
status, providing online help and FAQs, live chat, email and phone support
Online Product Catalog: Providing information about product and service
category, detailed specifications, images, pricing information
Sales Report and Web Site Statistics: Features include sales reports, viewing
web site statistics, repeat orders, click trials and frequent searches

4. YASH|Approach
YASH|Approach is the methodology that makes the 12-week Accelerator process real. It brings the rigor of YASH’s
extensive expertise in ERP, E-business implementations and software process maturity to the 12 week Accelerator
program.
Synergy Design Implement Go-Live
Rapid, highly interactive, Establishment of architecture Solution Development and Deployment of the solution
deployment goals definition of the solution Testing process and steady state
process
Client Workshops for road Establish the roll out Iterative approach Successfully deploy the
map development schedule and capacity plan breaking the project down portal solution for usage
into manageable pieces
Definition of shared vision Ascertain the architecture Training session for the end
and enterprise fit Establishment of change users
Creation of a collaborative management organization
framework of engagement Setting up development and for project management Preliminary evaluation of
test environments key performance metrics
Use of standard testing
Prototyping, if required rigors
Deliverables
Define measurable business Information Architecture Implementation of one or Usage Analysis Reports
results and vision more scenarios identified
Usage Analysis Metrics during the synergy phase Training Modules
Feature Priority Matrix
Implementation Plan Test Reports
Opportunity Scorecard
Analysis
How to Get Started
YASH Portal Accelerator Program is designed to revolutionize a part of your company’s manufacturing ecosystem
in short, 12 week cycles. The key to getting started is having the right business and IT sponsors in place to help set
goals – YASH can help you through this process and assemble the right team. To get started, our Accelerator
experts perform a preliminary assessment and provide recommendations to make your evolutionary journey to an
adaptive manufacturing ecosystem a success.
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