Process

Our process manufacturing practice helps companies that convert chemicals, minerals, metals, wood, and other natural resources into materials and products used by industries and individuals throughout the world.

Process manufacturers face a myriad of challenges in an increasingly globalized and competitive industry. They must consolidate capacity, enter new global markets, track constantly evolving international trade policies, and source scarce resources. Fortunately, new technologies, including remote monitoring, RFID materials tracking, plant automation, cloud computing, and virtualized communications can help process manufacturers survive and thrive in the Future of Work.

How Cognizant Can Help

Cognizant offers the skills, insights and capabilities to help process manufacturers successfully harness technology to meet their organizational goals, overcome their business challenges, and capitalize on their market opportunities. We have deep and diverse experience as partners with the world's leading process manufacturers, including many within the Fortune 500.

Every day we help process manufacturers address a broad array of business strategies and technology initiatives. A few examples of our recent engagements include:

• Project portfolio management for a global pulp, paper and packaging company: We partnered with the client to help better manage an extensive IT portfolio and prioritize business support for more effective IT resource allocation.
• Value chain network refinement for a global silicon-based products manufacturer: We applied a five-phase approach based on Six Sigma methodologies to bring about effective and continuous process improvements in the use of SAP applications in its supply chain.
• Strategic partnership with international construction materials manufacturer: We provided order-to-cash managed services, conducted process harmonization for procure-to-pay across 18 business units and 50 brands, and advised on back office systems strategy and trading systems replacement.

Industry Solutions

Through our state-of-the-art labs and technology centers, we make industry-leading investments to develop applications and solutions that fill the white spaces between off-the-shelf and custom-built technologies, helping process manufacturers more quickly and cost-effectively address their specific business challenges.