As your customers become more sophisticated, they are becoming more demanding. They demand improved responsiveness, product quality and yields, while also demanding lower prices. At the same time, your shareholders demand that your technology investments deliver a measurable return on investment.

But how do you retool manufacturing processes and technologies to reduce costs at the same time you improve manufacturing excellence? How do you consolidate and standardize IT infrastructure to dramatically improve business performance and productivity while reducing costs? How do you identify and seize hidden opportunities to apply technology renewal and innovation to drive large-scale improvements and cost reductions across your organization?

From process monitoring and control equipment to maintenance, health and safety and quality-improvement systems, our technology consultants will reduce your costs and improve performance by aligning your technology strategy, technical architectures and business strategy into an integrated whole.

Our consultants offer an average of 15 or more years experience working on shop floors, within warehouses, within engineering centers and all other functional business areas in the Chemical and Energy industries.

They understand the challenges and complexities of manufacturing. They understand how to apply rigorous processes and methodologies to analyze your existing technology, define your business objectives and then design and implement a vendor-neutral technology solution that streamlines, consolidates and dramatically reduces costs while boosting performance.

Our consultants will help you convert your fixed IT costs into variable costs and begin implementing technology strategies that demonstrate how your IT operation will boost your organization’s revenue, as well as bottom-line growth. The end result is a technology solution that delivers an immediate return on investment for your shareholders while enabling your organization to meet the demands of ever more sophisticated and demanding customers.

Our consultants offer a set of core services that we will tailor to your individual requirements:

IT Strategy: We will help you define a strategy that aligns your IT infrastructure with your strategic business goals to maximize your business performance, as well as the return on your technology investment.

IT Architecture: We will identify all the components of your IT architecture and their relationships, then ensure they fit together into an integrated whole that aligns with and advances your business goals.

Value and Cost Review: We will review all of the activities that your IT organization supports to establish the value each delivers to the business.

Because of our extensive experience working with leading Chemical and Energy clients, we’re uniquely positioned to help you identify opportunities, in every functional area of your organization, to advance business goals and solve challenges through technology innovation and renewal.

In designing and implementing technology solutions, we bring proven methodology and documented, repeatable processes that are certified effective against recognized standards, such as the Software Engineering Institute’s (SEI’s) software development and software acquisition maturity models, the System Security Engineering maturity model, and ISO 9001.

To design and deliver technology solutions that meet your business challenges faster and more cost-effectively, our approach includes the use of the following:

CSC Catalyst^SM: Our complete business change methodology draws on the expertise and best practices of CSC teams around the world to address the separate aspects of an enterprise as an integrated whole.

Package-Based Development: As more of our clients opt for the low-risk and controllable costs of commercial-off-the-shell software (COTS), we've designed an approach to make selecting and implementing a package more flexible and efficient, and to integrate it more closely with your total business solution.

Shared Services Model: With customers demanding lower administrative costs and better services, many chemical companies are migrating towards sharing services, such as human resources and IT. We can help you redefine the mission of your systems to benefit from this new industry trend.

Related Information

For related information, learn more about CSC’s approach to business consulting and strategy, IT infrastructure outsourcing, business process outsourcing, and applications outsourcing. Also learn more about cost-effective applications management at CSC World Sourcing Centers.

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