EINDHOVEN, THE NETHERLANDS: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India's leading IT services, business solutions and outsourcing firm has announced a five-year contract worth $100 million to deliver end-to-end global IT applications services to NXP Semiconductors BV.

TCS will provide high end consulting services as well as application management, development and support services across NXP’s supply chain operations.

Through this engagement, TCS will consolidate and ensure the integrity of NXP’s complex application landscape, delivering considerable operational cost savings and enabling the Eindhoven-based manufacturer to focus on its core business activities. TCS' R&D teams will also develop innovative and specialist applications to deliver competitive advantage to NXP across all stages of the product cycle.

The deal will be implemented through multiple centers in India, Asia and the US, which are part of TCS’ Global Network Delivery Model. These centers will be supported by a High Tech Centre of Excellence based in Eindhoven.

Louis Luijten, Senior VP and CIO, NXP said: "The engagement with TCS reflects NXP’s commitment to optimizing our processes and driving business value from all aspects of our operations.  We were looking for a partner who has a holistic understanding of our core business and not just the technology behind it and in this respect TCS is ideally placed to help us drive growth over the next five years."

N. Chandrasekaran, COO and Executive Director, TCS added: "The engagement with NXP is a perfect demonstration of our business credentials in a specialist sector and enables TCS to develop a deep relationship with NXP, a company founded by Phillips. As well as technical support, TCS will be working with NXP at a strategic level to optimize their operations and remain one step ahead of the competition," he added.

Girish Ramachandran, Director, TCS Europe noted, "This engagement shows clearly that TCS is able to offer end to end services from consulting, management, development, innovation and be a trusted partner to NXP."

TCS will also support NXP’s entire technology infrastructure globally covering ERP, CRM applications in addition to the company’s portal-based applications.  This support, together with consultancy, professional services and maintenance will be delivered via TCS’s Global Network Delivery Model.

TCS’ Global Network Delivery Model is a collaborative, best-in-class framework of people, processes and infrastructure. The model taps on TCS’ global intellectual assets of tools, methodologies and products to help customers reduce implementation time, realize benefits quicker and achieve business goals.