Jagdish Khattar's venture on TCS tarmac

MUMBAI. INDIA: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has been chosen by Carnation Auto, a Jadish Khattar initiative, to provide end-to-end system integration services. The multi-year agreement envisages TCS as the full service

provider responsible for enterprise IT solution implementation and includes business consulting, technology implementation &  support.

Carnation Auto is promoted by Jagdish Khattar, the former Managing Director and CEO of Maruti Suzuki, India's largest passenger car company selling one in two cars in the domestic market. Carnation Auto is setting up a chain of multi brand auto solutions and sales "hubs" with services like maintenance, insurance, CNG/LPG retrofitment, body and paint,

accessories, DC Design etc. under one roof for various auto brands.

Carnation will also retail new and certified pre-owned vehicles. It plans to set up approximately 100 multi-brand auto solution hubs in the next four years.

Carnation would be heavily banking on technology to retain its key differentiation and reduce time-to-market. The IT infrastructure TCS is setting up would be scalable and integrated to include all aspects of auto retail and repair business like forecasting, inventory management, sales, HR, CRM, payroll, etc.

Jagdish Khattar, CMD, Carnation Auto said, "We are a young company but have eleven locations already operational, and another eight in the pipeline, so an accelerated rollout and rapid scalability of our services is critical for success. TCS was the partner of choice, with its technical expertise and proven track record for innovatively compressing project timelines."