TCS Positioned as a Leader in IDC MarketScape for Supply Chain SAP Ecosystems Services

Tata Consultancy Services’ unique, consulting-led approach, contextual knowledge, and supply chain assets highlighted as key strengths.

NEW YORK | MUMBAI, May 10, 2021: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS), a leading global IT services, consulting and business solutions organization, has been positioned as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Supply Chain SAP Ecosystems Services¹.

According to the report, “TCS provides a unique, consulting-led approach that combines human capital, strategic insights, and client-contextualized process knowledge and technological expertise.” Among the strengths highlighted was TCS’ “Contextual knowledge to drive the right-fit SAP solutions to enable a transformation.”

“TCS continues to drive a global consulting-led approach that solves issues of board relevancy. We are helping customers de-risk their global supply chains and build greater resilience. Our SAP-centric SCM transformations harness TCS’ ecosystem and global scale, deep client contextual knowledge, SAP specific experience, and supply chain expertise to deliver adaptive, agile, intelligent and connected supply chains for our clients,” said Dave Jordan, Global Head, Consulting & Services Integration, TCS. “This IDC MarketScape recognition is a reflection of our strategies, capabilities and the resultant market success.”

TCS’ holistic consulting framework, TCS Enterprise Navigator™ drives business value and accelerates client's SAP-enabled SCM transformation journeys. It incorporates TCS Pace Port™, TCS Strategic Insights, preconfigured platforms, and perpetual transformation by leveraging the TCS Machine First™ Delivery Model.

When leading SAP-enabled SCM transformations, TCS’ approach is to leverage industry specific accelerators, organizational change management methods and tools, and its deep contextual knowledge of its clients. This is further enabled by its strong 360-degree relationship with SAP with joint go to market, joint product development and beta testing, co-development around Model Company, and over 30 industry specific solutions. With this industry leading portfolio of intellectual property and one of the largest teams of SAP practitioners globally, TCS has become the preferred partner for enterprises looking to transform their supply chain management using SAP.

TCS’ Supply Chain practice envisions, designs, and builds digital enterprise supply networks which are adaptive, non-linear, omnidirectional, real-time sense and respond networks. TCS is advising, designing, and creating supply chain strategies for customers to operate in today’s environment while thinking and building for the future.

TCS’ SAP-related services include design thinking, advisory, innovation consulting, implementation, and other digital support services. The company helps customers evaluate newer digital offerings such as SAP S/4HANA^®, SAP Customer Experience solutions, SAP SuccessFactors^® solutions, SAP Ariba^® solutions, SAP Cloud Platform, and define their roadmap, architecture and strategy. TCS’ innovation and demo centers in Cincinnati-US, Paris-France, Mumbai-India and Tokyo-Japan help customers gain a first-hand experience of SAP’s new products and global innovations through a digital transformation ecosystem.

About IDC Marketscape

IDC MarketScape vendor analysis model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of ICT (information and communications technology) suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each vendor’s position within a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of IT and telecommunications vendors can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective vendors.

About Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)

Tata Consultancy Services is an IT services, consulting and business solutions organization that has been partnering with many of the world’s largest businesses in their transformation journeys for over 50 years. TCS offers a consulting-led, cognitive powered, integrated portfolio of business, technology and engineering services and solutions. This is delivered through its unique Location Independent Agile™ delivery model, recognized as a benchmark of excellence in software development.

A part of the Tata group, India's largest multinational business group, TCS has over 488,000 of the world’s best-trained consultants in 46 countries. The company generated consolidated revenues of US $22.2 billion in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2021, and is listed on the BSE (formerly Bombay Stock Exchange) and the NSE (National Stock Exchange) in India. TCS' proactive stance on climate change and award-winning work with communities across the world have earned it a place in leading sustainability indices such as the MSCI Global Sustainability Index and the FTSE4Good Emerging Index. For more information, visit www.tcs.com and follow TCS news at @TCS_News.

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1 IDC, IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Supply Chain SAP Ecosystem Services 2021 Vendor Assessment, doc #US47537120, March 2021