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TCS Helps ABB Digitize IBP
Alain Huillet, Program Manager – ABB FACE Integrated Business Planning, shares his experience of how TCS helped connect front end sales with efficient back end to improve the ability to plan, promise and deliver across business units.
“ABB was looking for a partner to cover all aspect of the implementation [of IBP solution]. TCS had a long lasting partnership with ABB and strong manufacturing sector expertise.”
Alain Huillet, Program Manager – ABB FACE Integrated Business Planning
ABB initiated the program by a global business blueprint and process design, then a thorough Architecture definition and application selection process. TCS was engaged into the program to implement the solution from summer 2016 onwards.
TCS helped ABB with the implementation of an enterprise solution for end-to-end supply chain visibility and internal collaboration, inventory optimization, demand and supply planning, financial reconciliation.
In this engagement with ABB, TCS has delivered results in the form of:
Alain explains how challenging it is to run a global program in a de-centralized organization like ABB. Alain says that TCS management demonstrated great leadership in particular to make the most of ABB experts’ collective intelligence and align business representatives under a global core design, the strong foundation of future implementation in the group.
Highlighting the strengths of partnering with TCS, Alain says that TCS showed resilience and provided the extra effort when needed, as well as complementary expertise to re-enforce the weak areas. Alain adds that the good partnership TCS developed with JDA enabled to resolve implementation issues.
