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TVS Motor Company to look at IT as profit centre
Ramnath Subbu
| Initiatives include digitising new product development based on market research and customer feedback |
MUMBAI: TVS Motor Company is planning to look at IT as a profit centre by providing IT and IT-enabled services (ITeS) to external customers. TVS’ IT team, which comprises around 100 people, has over the years, developed domain competencies in niche areas like Just-in-Time (JIT) management, Kanban (replenishment inventory based on ‘pull’ system) and Total Productivity Management (TPM) and manufacturing execution systems. “Having developed the competency for implementing IT projects in-house, we are looking at the possibility of providing services for external business partners, particularly in areas where we have developed core competence,” T. G. Dhandapani, Chief Information Officer, TVS Motor, told The Hi ndu.
The in-house IT team has implemented projects at TVS’ Himachal Pradesh plant, its Indonesia unit and at the company’s three-wheeler plant in Hosur. “We have six group companies and once the IT projects at all our units are completed, we do not mind helping external customers. Once the thirst of all our group companies has been fulfilled over the next one year, then we will look at external assignments. IT for us has been a cost centre and we would also like to look at it as a profit centre.”
Several companies have sought solutions for specific IT-related problems and have approached the TVS IT team which has been helping them and providing clarifications purely on an informal basis. The company’s initiatives include digitising new product development based on market research and customer feedback.
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