The Logistics industry forms the backbone of the Global Supply Chain. In the midst of tough economic conditions and global evolution, Logistics companies are striving to deliver their brand promise consistently throughout the value chain and across all stakeholder groups.

  Client Challenges

The Logistics industry faces numerous challenges including:

• Increasing pressure on top line growth (due to decreasing consumer and business spending)
• Cutting down operating costs
• Managing fluctuations in the supply chain
• Facilitating the supply chain through visibility, velocity and reliability
• Increasing regulatory and security requirements
• Minimizing the impact to the environment
• Maximizing asset utilization
• Maximizing human resources utilization
• Implementing effective strategies to provide a consistent brand experience to customers

What TCS Provides

TCS provides flexible, reliable and efficient suite of Consulting, IT, Infrastructure, Business Process outsourcing, Engineering and Industrial Services and Enterprise Solution Services to help Logistics companies build the capabilities required to address key challenges, and improve process efficiencies, lower their total cost of ownership of IT, Infrastructure, and improve quality in IT delivery.

The key solution enablers from TCS include:

• Experienced resource pool with domain and process skills
• Global Network Delivery Model (GNDM™), a collaborative, best in class framework of people, processes and infrastructure consistently ensures delivery excellence
• Centers of Excellence (CoEs) for Logistics domain and technologies. The CoEs:
• focus on solution accelerators: re-usable assets, tools, best practices, methodologies (for example:  legacy reengineering, enterprise transformation) and development of competency of TCS’ associates that help in providing TCS’ clients with new and effective solutions and aid in achieving high productivity, and significant cost savings from investment
• leverage TCS’ co-innovation network and client partnerships to address business challenges in the logistics value chain
• Partnership with leading product and technology companies such as SAP, Oracle, IBM, Microsoft and i2 among others

Associated Products

Products from TCS’ affiliate company, CMC Limited, for ports/terminal management:

• Cargo Logistics Management System (CALMS) – computerises the Bulk (dry, liquid and gas), break-bulk operations of a cargo terminal.
• Marine Container Handling System (MACH) – is a comprehensive and integrated solution for handling marine and container operations

Related Locations

• Business Intelligence and Process Management expertise to help organizations become agile, adaptable and efficient  
• Business Process Outsourcing to help Logistics companies focus on their core business, increase flexibility, reduce barriers to change, and innovate, improve and transform processes
• Consulting arm with Business and IT experts to help organizations with Business Transformation
• Marine Engineering solutions for marine with emphasis on effective Supply Chain Management, Production Planning and Lean Shop Floor solutions

Alliances

In 2009, TCS and Trade Ship Inc. (TSI) entered into a strategic alliance to offer best in class highly integrated business solution to shipping industry. Trade Ship Inc. is a New York based corporation that has served the container shipping industry for more than 20 years, and have over the past many years developed the comprehensive and fully integrated web based solution, “SeaLiner” to compliment container shipping lines’ business processes.