TCS drives GHCL’s digital transformation journey
TCS navigates SAP S/4HANA conversion with consulting-led business process transformation
Challenge
Legacy technologies, fragmented processes of core business functions hindered GHCL’s growth.
Gujarat Heavy Chemicals Limited (GHCL) Limited, a large chemical manufacturing company was using SAP ERP Central Component for more than a decade, with semi-manual processes for some of its business functions. GHCL wanted to accelerate growth and modernize its enterprise IT landscape to stay competitive in the evolving digital business world. The company wanted to invest in a futuristic and scalable digital platform to initiate enterprise transformation. It wanted to enable this transformation through process digitization, analytics, automation, and cloud product suites with seamless integration across its landscape.
Solution
TCS enabled a single-step SAP S/4HANA conversion and an advisory-led business process transformation.
To convert GHCL’s aging SAP systems while minimizing the risk and ensuring zero disruption of existing business processes, TCS proposed a brownfield approach for SAP S/4HANA adoption, leveraging TCS’ SAP S/4HANA Conversion Factory and advisory-led business process transformation.
TCS evaluated GHCL’s key drivers, processes and landscape during an initial assessment and proposed a phased roadmap to begin SAP S/4HANA-led transformation. In the first phase, TCS recommended a single-step SAP S/4HANA conversion, optimizing system performance and laying a foundation for subsequent phase of process improvement. In the second phase, TCS transformed GHCL’s core business processes using the latest business solutions from SAP S/4HANA - Embedded Transportation Management and Embedded Business Planning. With analytics on a mobility platform, GHCL users were able to get business information on-the-go through SAP Fiori applications.
We are delighted by the delivery excellence and perseverance demonstrated by TCS team during project execution so far
Raman Chopra, Chief Financial Officer and Executive Director – Finance, GHCL Limited
Benefits
With SAP S/4HANA, TCS improved system performance, enhanced user experience, and transformed business processes.
Thanks to TCS’ SAP S/4HANA Conversion Factory, GHCL significantly improved system performance and user experience, and laid the foundation to transform inherent processes.
Statistics
150%
Performance improvement for 20 business-critical reports
500%
Improvement in average system response time
90%
Reduction in system backup time
59%
Reduction in database footprint