In the current scenario, organizations are constantly looking to strategically reduce costs or improve organizational productivity and service deliveries to its customers. While large organizations may have internal excellence teams to execute such drives, they often require specialist professional firms in aiding specific objectives. Medium and small organizations look for professional services firms who can aid end-to-end as it is difficult for them to have internal resources for such specific objectives. During 2006, straight out of college when Nikhil Joshi planned to take the road to entrepreneurship, he strongly felt the need to integrate fundamental concepts of Industrial Engineering, operations & supply chain with systems engineering to provide solutions to the complex problems of organizations. With this idea in mind, Nikhil started SNic India to provide consulting advisory with an ambition to find out technologies available to convert advisory into solutions.

Headquartered in Bangalore, SNic India is a consulting and technology solution firm. Its solutions help its clients identify business areas/decisions that can be optimized, predict the outcomes of business decisions, experiment & compare business decisions and hand-hold for execution. “Over the last few years SNic India has developed consulting and implementation expertise primarily in the area of Lean Industrial Engineering, Simulation Modelling & Analytics, Advance Planning & Scheduling and Optimization,” says Nikhil. The firm has its clients in the Airports, IT/ITES, Distribution and manufacturing sectors covering the entire spectrum of discrete, continuous and Life science processes. “Our solutions portfolio adds value to organizations which have had the need to improve operations & supply chain productivity, on-time delivery & service delivery and take a strategic advantage against competition by optimizing overall costs,” he adds.

The Craftsmanship
Industrial Engineering no more is limited to only manufacturing but has its application in every sector today. Continuous improvement has become an important area of focus for organizations to scientifically study existing systems and continuously strive to improve profitability by reducing wastages and input costs. SNic India’s consulting advisory has proven expertise and tools today to study complex and dynamic business processes, identify areas for improvement and hand hold organizations until execution. The firm aids its clients to understand and visualize the effects of change and the resulting costs prior to implementation which provides confidence to the customer on potential outcome, commitment required from its own team and ROI. SNic India specializes in Industrial Engineering, Lean Simulation Modelling & Predictive Analytics, Advanced Planning & Scheduling and Optimization. Using these specializations, engineers at SNic India provide Planning & Scheduling System design & Software Implementation, Capacity Assessment & Optimization, Manpower Assessment & Optimization, Engineering Labor Standards & Incentive Design, Ergonomics Design, Plant Layout Design & Simulation, Network Optimization, Transport Optimization to name a few professional services of the firm.

The Road Ahead
The USP of SNic India is their ability to combine consulting and technology to provide end-to-end solutions. The firm has a totally young industrial engineering workforce passionate about adding value to organizations with new ideas and building sustainable relationships. “We are currently in the process of expansion by placing front offices in Baroda and Delhi. Also, we are currently building our first product to aid our clients in workforce optimization,” explains Nikhil. In the coming days, SNic India also has subsequent plans to strengthen its international presence which is less than a year old.