How TCS helped Mother Dairy save on sourcing in its plants?

MUMBAI, INDIA: The dairy products major, Mother Dairy Fruit and Vegetable Private limited, a subsidiary of the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) has started leveraging  TCS’ solutions and services to deliver sustainable savings on sourcing and procurement.

TCS helped Mother Dairy to consolidate and standardize sourcing across its 18 plants in India for categories such as Transportation, Packaging, Refrigeration Equipment and Travel.

This includes consulting on strategy and design of centralized procurement cell, spend analysis for enhanced visibility, as well as deployment of Sourcing and Procurement Platform for streamlined operations.

TCS' Sourcing and Procurement Platform has helped digitize and streamline RFX and Auction processes at Mother Dairy. This has helped reduce cycle-time and bring transparency in the supplier selection process.

Buyers now have access to a centralized contract repository which ensures that the negotiated savings are identified and realized across plants.

Additionally, TCS has enabled a sell-side auction capability to help Mother Dairy get maximum gains out of scrap materials.

Meghnad Mitra, CFO, Mother Dairy Fruit & Vegetable Pvt. Ltd. said, “Implementation of Electronic procurement platform (e@SETU) was the first step towards automating the procurement process with the help of TCS. This was followed up with a Strategic sourcing initiative along with creation of a Centralized Procurement Cell. This has significantly helped in sourcing of prioritized categories and consolidated procurement operations."

Annie Mathew, CIO, Mother Dairy Fruit & Vegetable Pvt. Ltd. added, “Strategic Sourcing project has enhanced the transparency in tendering and procurement. This resulted in bringing more vendors’ participation as well as competitive offers from vendors.”