TDSG transforms core business and HR functions
India’s first lithium-ion battery manufacturer partnered with TCS in its digitization journey.
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Highlights
- TDSG, in partnership with TCS, embarked on a three-year journey to digitize and transform core business functions.
- TCS helped TDSG set up a future-ready and scalable digital core to streamline its cash management, logistics, and finance processes.
- Through an HR transformation program, we also improved the employee experience, enhanced learning, and simplified HR operations for TDSG.
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Challenge
Addressing the need to digitize core business functions.
TDSG, or TDS Lithium-Ion Battery Gujarat Private Limited, is India’s first lithium battery maker and supplier. As a joint venture between TOSHIBA Corporation, DENSO Corporation, and Suzuki Motor Corporation, it had a unique set of challenges. It needed to maintain data integrity between the three companies, while enhancing core business operations from supply chain to finance. Addressing compliance issues, building a sustainable business, and fostering a fulfilling working environment for its employees were also top priorities for the company. TDSG realized that tapping the digital advantage by adopting an integrated, digital, and scalable enterprise resource planning platform was the way forward. This was critical to:
Improve cash management processes and ensure on-time availability of funds for financial requirements and payment obligations.
Enhance key logistics processes and expedite time to market for products.
Integrate finance and logistics processes to increase productivity and time to market.
Additionally, TDSG wanted to deploy an integrated HR platform to:
Automate and streamline performance and learning processes as the existing processes were manual, disintegrated, and lacked transparency.
Drive better decision making with key data insights.
Solution
Building a future-ready digital core and empowering the workforce.
TCS defined an incremental transformation journey for TDSG through a holistic approach that focused on building a strong digital core, transforming key HR processes, and driving automation across different business areas.
We started with a clean slate, implementing an entirely new IT landscape leveraging SAP S/4HANA to help TDSG optimize their supply chain process to gain a 360-degree view of the inventory, and integrate the procurement, logistics, and finance processes. Throughout, the focus was on ensuring efficiency and creating a foundation fit for the future.
For TDSG’s HR transformation program, we adopted an interactive, human-centric approach to elevating the employee experience, enhancing organizational agility, and encouraging employee collaboration. We transformed TDSG’s core HR, learning, and performance management processes using the latest innovations in SAP SuccessFactors. We leveraged TCS’ Crystallus™ to build a centralized, integrated core HR platform that served as the single source of truth for all users with HR data needs.
Further, with 25 SAP Fiori-based applications for different business areas—all seamlessly integrated with the SAP enterprise system—we enabled secure anytime, anywhere access to business processes for employees, while helping meet specific business needs.
Benefits
Driving operational excellence and sustainable economic development.
Working with TCS, TDSG was able to continuously improve its business processes, reinforce rigor in its operations, and build a more sustainable business. Over a three-year period, TDSG could create value from its strategic investments in technology innovations. Key benefits:
Decreased manual intervention by 80% through intelligent automation in supply chain and finance. Reduced man hours significantly by integrating a bank API-based payment facility that allowed automated reconciliation.
Enabled real-time insights for preventive maintenance, ensuring seamless procurement and ready availability of spares. Simplified all plant maintenance activities using SAP Fiori mobility applications.
Enabled early identification of defects with 100% defective cell traceability; drove 100% compliance to hazardous waste disposal norms under ISO 14001.
Streamlined HR processes; reduced existing HR operational processes by 20%.
Enabled an efficient review process through an optimized performance and goal management system.
Facilitated employee learning using a homogenous learning management system across divisions.
Boosted data confidentiality and privacy across divisions by implementing SAP SuccessFactors.
What the Client Says
TDSG has created value from its strategic investments in technology and innovation by integrating core business functions into a digital future-ready processes, strengthening our commitment towards sustainable socio-economic development. As a business transformation partner, TCS was instrumental in shaping and accelerating our business transformation journey leveraging TCS Crystallus™ and domain capabilities. A holistic transformation approach along with TCS’ contextual knowledge and expertise in SAP S/4HANA and SAP SuccessFactors have enabled TDSG to achieve scalability, resilience, and operational excellence.
The journey of transformation of various functions at TDSG was partnered with TCS. We look forward to a more proactive and enjoyable journey ahead.