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TCS TAP™
TAP™: A Cloud-based AI-powered Source-to-Pay Platform
Highlights
- Drive smarter buying with AI-powered catalogs, budget control, and policy enforcement.
- Reduce procurement cycle times with faster requisitions, streamlined approvals, and supplier self-service.
- Maximize control and visibility through real-time purchasing insights.
Overview
Disparate purchasing processes lead to non-compliance, increased maverick spends, and poor user adoption across procurement. Organizations need to enforce budget control, standardize purchases, and deliver faster, user-friendly experiences across geographies.
TAP’s Purchasing digitizes and simplifies every step of the buying cycle from catalogs and requisitions to PO creation and supplier collaboration, so procurement becomes faster, more controlled, and intuitive for everyone. It blends automation, compliance, and user-centric design to streamline everything from catalog requisitions to purchase orders and goods receipts.
CAPABILITIES
Create, maintain, and publish goods/service catalogs; punchout catalogs, and shopping cart functions.
Catalog and free-form text requisitions with easy spot-buys, budget checks, and workflow-based approvals.
Generate auto POs/manual POs, track status, make amendments, and manage PO approvals.
Capture goods/service receipts, handle rejections and returns, etc.
Manage spot buy events, acknowledge POs, maintain catalogs with buyer approval, create ASNs, and query management.
Dashboards for PO/PR summary, cycle time, GRN status, total spend, supplier performance, etc.
Intelligent suggestion of GL code and AI-powered supplier suggestions on supplier search (Free text requisition, manual PO)
Benefits
- Reduced cost of operations with automation and digitization
- Improved PO compliance and fraud detection
- Reduced maverick buys via catalog enforcement and budget controls
- Improved turnaround time with faster approvals and anytime, anywhere access
TAP’s Purchasing empowers organizations to buy smarter, faster, and always in control, making procurement a strategic force for efficiency and value.