{"id":839,"date":"2022-07-12T12:17:25","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T12:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.skubiq.com\/?p=58"},"modified":"2023-11-22T11:37:12","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T06:07:12","slug":"atmanirbhar-bharat-through-automation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skubiq.com\/es\/blog\/atmanirbhar-bharat-through-automation\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’ Through Automation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Atmanirbhar Bharat vision aims to increase India’s domestic competitiveness and enhance the country’s contribution to global trade. In essence, it drives the penetration of international markets using the strengths of the domestic market.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Improving the supply chain and ramping up operations are crucial to fulfilling this Atmanirbhar Bharat vision. While digital transformation has been a resonating theme to drive these endeavors, the initiatives must be extensively complemented with automation to accelerate production, improve efficiency, and reduce costs.<\/p>\n

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Indian businesses are looking to improve their digital capabilities and adopt digital-first business models and technologies like the cloud. In that light, a focus on automation becomes imperative. That’s because it helps businesses address first and last-mile challenges such as elevated shipping costs, improve returns management, advance inventory, and warehouse management<\/a>, and enhance customer satisfaction \u2014 all through cost-effective supply chain fulfillment.<\/p>\n

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While the prominent players in the market are progressing steadfastly along their automation journey, to help India truly become Atmanirbhar, the SMEs need to improve their automation game.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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With the\u00a0COVID-19 pandemic permanently changing the way many organizations do business, eliminating old manual processes and introducing automation would enable faster results, remove human errors, and support lean assembly lines.<\/p>\n

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Here are some of the challenges that automation alleviates for SMEs:<\/p>\n

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Cost Optimisation<\/h2>\n

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The SME sector has to deal with delayed payments and thin margins. Enabling automation helps SMEs stretch the currency longer by reducing the time and effort spent manually doing tasks. More so, it eliminates human errors, allowing organizations to streamline processes and providing deeper insights into operations. As such, organizations are able to identify and eliminate waste.<\/p>\n

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Moreover, automation helps SMEs gain clear insights into their material master data with multiple views of MRP, S&D, accounting, and warehouse. The right software helps them automate processes to get detailed insights into suppliers, operators’ performance reports, material aging, material replenishment report, expiry, shelf life, subscription alerts, etc.<\/p>\n

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Better Insights = Better Decisions<\/h2>\n

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Detailed insights into operational aspects help organizations identify and remove wasteful processes and make smarter, data-backed decisions to optimize costs and augment organizational outcomes.<\/p>\n

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Automation helps seamlessly connect processes that give organizations a holistic and 360-degree view of the business. For example, clear insights into stock levels with inventory and warehouse automation enables businesses to make inventory management smarter<\/a>. Trend analysis, demand, and rule-based order fulfillment\u00a0and management allow businesses to retain accuracy while creating and managing replenishment optimally.<\/p>\n

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SMEs are categorized into OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) and suppliers. OEMs want to improve operational efficiencies to improve productivity, reduce wastage, and identify ways to drive innovation in product development and quickly accommodate market and customer demands. Suppliers want to expand their customer base and tap into a more comprehensive network while controlling costs.<\/p>\n

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Both these activities need operational enhancements. Automation helps SMEs optimize their operational efficiencies and allow them to handle different customers and multiple markets. Automating the following activities increase operational efficiencies:<\/p>\n

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