Sourcing SolutionsEngineering and Industrial Services

With increasing global competition, organizations need to look at newer avenues to retain leadership through a combination of high quality innovative products and a strong focus on reduction of costs. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), with strengths in product engineering, sourcing and supply chain management, provides strategic sourcing solutions to organizations. These solutions help organizations in global sourcing and in the reduction of product development lead times and total cost of ownership, bringing in continuous improvements in supplier performance and adherence to delivery, cost and quality requirements.

Overview

TMOur Global Network Delivery Model , a collaborative, superior framework of people, processes and infrastructure, makes it possible for us to consistently ensure success of your initiatives anytime, anywhere.

For a global sourcing initiative to be successful, companies need to find the right trustworthy suppliers and collaborate effectively with them. It is also essential for organizations to have execution support, maintain a dedicated sourcing organization, and steer the engagement in the right direction in spite of initial challenges. At TCS, we have excellent supplier market knowledge and can tap the ideal supplier base to cater to your needs. With our cross-industry experience in procurement and supplier quality assurance areas, we bring to you advantages of a leaner supply chain and assure quality products from cost effective sources.

Solutions

With an emphasis on processes, technology and strong program management abilities, we ensure the success of your global sourcing initiatives. Well-established strategic sourcing assessment methodologies and supplier assessment processes, along with our experienced sourcing and quality assurance consultants, enable our customers to choose the right strategies and suppliers. Strong supplier development capabilities and program management skills ensure that our customers receive quality goods in a timely and consistent manner. We also have a strong focus on continuous improvement in supplier performance. We support potentially merging organizations by identifying synergy in spend behavior and sourcing strategies that can lead to substantial savings. Our strategic sourcing solutions are provided to aerospace, automotive, hi-tech, medical equipment and other industries.

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Identify sourcing strategies

Create operational plans

Analyze spend profile

Prioritize targetcommodities

Leverage supplier network

Pre-qualifypotential suppliers

Obtain costestimates

Comprehensiveevaluation

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Compare totalcosts

Facilitate contractcreation

Facilitatenegotiations

QMS / OEMcertification

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Supplier qualityassurance

Pilot lotqualification

Operational &Logistics support

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Why TCS

Our engagements result in on-time deliveries and realization of savings for our clients. Apart from efficient services and qualitative deliverables, the benefits from engaging us include:

Range of services. We offer a complete range of services, from product design and prototyping to supporting volume production including high end consulting and implementation of strategies, making us a single partner for all your needs. We can ramp up or ramp down resources at short notice based on requirements, reducing risks and fixed cost commitment.

Domain knowledge and experience. Our consultants have got strong supplier market and domain knowledge along with rich experience in procurement and supplier quality assurance areas. Our competencies in product engineering and our Art to Part offering* adds value by helping customers to shorten their New Product Development cycle times and costs without compromising on quality.

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n Strong focus on Process and Technology. Our consultative sourcing assessment and program management capabilities ensure a lean supply chain resulting in timely deliveries at desired quality levels and help establish strong supply networks in global markets. We have got best in class methodologies for spend analysis and sourcing assessment which help customers in achieving substantial savings in spend.

* - The Art to Part offering is aimed at supporting customers with end-to-end capabilities right from design to prototype development to volume production.

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How we helped our customers

Sourcing Program Management for sheet metal parts helped in improving cost efficiency

Manufacturing of prototypes for surgical equipment manufacturer helped in shortening the design cycle.

An aerospace tier-1 supplier was in need of achieving capacity enhancement and cost reduction through sourcing from low cost country sources for sheet metal parts. One of the major challenges was to develop a local supply chain that could meet stringent criteria on quality, cost and schedule adherence. TCS was involved from the start in the process of identification, qualification and selection of suppliers. TCS provided the solution by ensuring continuous risk identification and mitigation planning, effective First Article Inspection, non conformity identification and corrective action planning and monitoring. Implementation of TCS sourcing program management solution helped the customer in meeting all the quality parameters at a significant cost advantage.

A US based OEM manufacturing surgical equipments wanted to value engineer one of its products to improve functionality at a reduced cost. One of the key challenges was to quickly and cost effectively prove the value-engineered design with a functional prototype. TCS provided an end-to-end solution through its Art to Part offering. TCS provided program management services integrating multiple suppliers. The product involved several critical manufacturing process capabilities and tolerances. TCS adopted its proven prototype development methodology that includes use of detailed process sheets, quality assurance plans and inspection reports. The solution provided by TCS helped in delighting the customer with quality functional prototypes with superior finish, cost savings and timely delivery.

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About Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)Tata Consultancy Services is an IT services, business solutions and outsourcing organization that delivers real results to global businesses, ensuring a level of certainty no other firm can match. TCS offers a consulting-led, integrated portfolio of IT and IT-enabled services delivered through its unique

TMGlobal Network Delivery Model recognized as the benchmark of excellence in software development.

A part of the Tata Group, Indias largest industrial conglomerate, TCS has over 100,000 of the world's best trained IT consultants in 50 countries. The company generated consolidated revenues of US $5.7 billion for fiscal year ended 31 March 2008 and is listed on the National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchange in India. For more information, visit us at www.tcs.com