Vodafone Business Smart Operations

Work faster and smarter by synchronising your people, data and technology

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In a competitive market, upgrading technology isn’t enough. To stay ahead, your operating environments need to be smarter, more efficient and more productive than ever. And all too often, infrastructural barriers can hold you back.

Vodafone Business Smart Operations can help take your operation environments to the next level by increasing your productivity, making more of your existing tech and readying you for the hyperconnected future. Drawing on our Mobile Private Networks, Edge, IoT and 5G solutions, you can take your operations from fast to frictionless — and from smarter to truly smart.

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Accelerating digital transformation

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90% of Europe’s FT500 will incorporate new digital KPI sets - product/service innovation rates, data capitalisation, and employee experience - by the end of 2022 (IDC).
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39% of businesses say they have accelerated their digitalisation plans after the pandemic (Vodafone Future Ready Report).
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84% of companies say they are able to do things they couldn’t do before as they digitalise their business (Vodafone IoT Spotlight).

Can fast be even faster?

Microseconds can make all the difference for businesses. But could operations move even faster? With Vodafone Business Smart Operations, your organisation could reach new speeds.
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Your supply chain will be shortened and better connected, enabling you to get new products to market faster.


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Your components across your production lines will be rapidly reconfigured to capture emerging opportunities more quickly and ahead of your competition


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With real-time data you can make informed, better and faster decisions to take the organisation forward.

Can insight be more insightful?

Data is the currency of the future for enterprises, and yet it is only as valuable as it is insightful and actionable. With Vodafone Business Smart Operations, the insights your business relies on could be even more valuable.
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Your customer insights will be more valuable and actionable by drawing from a greater range of data sources and putting all this in the hands of your people in real time, creating more loyal and engaged customers.


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Your insights into your assets and operating environments will be more accurate and timelier, so that maintenance and replacement can be predicted and prevented.


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Your insights into your own workforce will be deeper, so that you can better understand how they work now and how they could work better in the future.

Can adaptive be even more adaptable?

The speed and skill with which enterprises adapt to changing environments is a key determiner of success. With Vodafone Business Smart Operations, your organisation could reach a whole new level of adaptability.
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Analyse critical information and anticipate hazards before they occur with more accessible and actionable data.


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Make your workforce more adaptable to new technologies with smart training and re-skilling technologies.


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Be the disruptor, not the disrupted, by rapidly adapting your production and distribution processes to capture new opportunities and new markets.

Smart Operations in your industry

Manufacturing

Hyper-adaptive and hyper-performing production lines.

Smart Operations can enable manufacturing organisation to pivot to new product opportunities in the moment, as well as be ready for a future of ever-evolving production. And through our network of specialist partners, we are able to help create operating environments where imperfections, hazards and delays are ever rarer.

Transport & Logistics

Smarter reactive and proactive decision making.

By storing, analysing and sharing data instantly, Smart Operations can help transport and logistics businesses to be smarter in how they react to sudden disruptions and to be more proactive in anticipating future ones. And by unleashing the full automated and frictionless potential of every operating environment – from fleets to distribution centres - human intervention can be minimized whilst safety and productivity is maximised.

Manufacturing

Manufacturing

Hyper-adaptive and hyper-performing production lines.

Smart Operations can enable manufacturing organisation to pivot to new product opportunities in the moment, as well as be ready for a future of ever-evolving production. And through our network of specialist partners, we are able to help create operating environments where imperfections, hazards and delays are ever rarer.

Transport & Logistics

Transport & Logistics

Smarter reactive and proactive decision making.

By storing, analysing and sharing data instantly, Smart Operations can help transport and logistics businesses to be smarter in how they react to sudden disruptions and to be more proactive in anticipating future ones. And by unleashing the full automated and frictionless potential of every operating environment – from fleets to distribution centres - human intervention can be minimized whilst safety and productivity is maximised.

Explore the Factory of the Future

Vodafone is combining IoT, Mobile Private Networks, 5G and Edge Computing to help manufacturers go to market faster, by ensuring tools, parts and people are synchronised, giving them access to real-time data to make informed decisions.

To see how this is faster, more secure, reliable and flexible connectivity can transform your operations, we invite you to explore our interactive 3D model of today’s smart factories.

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Smart Operations in Action

Vodafone enables Ford to revolutionise manufacturing processes through a private 5G network.

Benefits

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Better quality control

Take your production and distribution ever closer to zero imperfections. Timely and accessible data can catch every error, and predictive analytics will identify hazards before they occur.
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Boost productivity

Close the value gap by adapting to new customer challenges. As well as raising productivity, you can refine decision-making and improve organisational behaviour.
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More efficient use of your Operational Technology

Modern operating technologies are intelligent, but they can be even more efficient. With Smart Operations, your technologies can be more secure, collaborative and reliable.

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Why Vodafone?

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A future-proof portfolio of solutions

  • Our expertise in 5G, MPN, MEC and IoT helps you build smarter operations.
  • Our solutions aim to eventually hyperconnect whole enterprises.
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Access to our best-of-breed partner ecosystem

  • Our ecosystem of partners gives you access to the best solutions and tech.
  • We provide sector-expert services and support whoever you work with.
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A global reach without weak links

  • We have the global reach to deal with remote workforces and assets.
  • Our always-on connectivity covers over 184 countries.
  • We’re a global leader in IoT.

Edge Computing, Mobile Private Networks & 5G change the game

Mobile Private Networks

Revolutionise how you do business by bringing the cloud closer to the devices that need it. By moving computing, storage and management to the “edge” of the network, you’ll see faster speeds and near real-time decision-making, unlocking new possibilities.

Multi-Access Edge Computing

Revolutionise how you do business by bringing the cloud closer to the devices that need it. By moving computing, storage and management to the “edge” of the network, you’ll see faster speeds and near real-time decision-making, unlocking new possibilities.

Internet of Things (IoT)

Vodafone Internet of Things (IoT) combines the world's largest mobile network, outstanding technology and a long track record of success.

5G for business

5G offers faster speeds and with this brings more business opportunities and benefits. Find out how 5G can benefit your business.