Spotless and Tata Consultancy Services announce SAP Go-Live

MUMBAI, India, May 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS), a leading IT services, consulting, and business solutions firm announced today that the Spotless Group, an international services company specialising in outsourced facility management, has gone live with the first phase of its SAP transformation program.

Spotless selected SAP business management software to assist with its business and IT platform transformation program. To date, the project's scope of work has covered SAP Finance, Procurement, Service Asset Management, Sales and Distribution, Portal, Process Integration, Reporting, and Human Resources. TCS is providing Spotless with SAP focused implementation expertise, consulting and ongoing support for the SAP solution.

Spotless Cleaning Services and corporate divisions are the first operations benefitting from the IT platform transformation which has been designed to improve business agility as well as deliver net financial benefits in the medium-term and beyond.

Josef Farnik, Spotless Managing Director and CEO, said the SAP solution is expected to streamline Spotless' business operations as well as enhance information sharing and business administration efficiencies. Josef Farnik said: "The Spotless business and IT transformation project has been designed to standardise core business processes across the organisation enabled by a common technology platform, thereby unlocking substantial recurring financial benefits.  Other benefits include centralising the management of client and supplier data.  To date, the Spotless implementation team has conducted over 10,000 tests, and migrated 125,000 data fields into SAP."

The next implementation will go live in 2013. This will involve moving other core Spotless businesses - Managed Services, Laundry Services and Food Services - across to the SAP platform.

Deborah Hadwen, Chief Executive Officer, Tata Consultancy Services – Australia and New Zealand said: "TCS has extensive implementation experience with SAP technology and is one of the largest providers of SAP services in Australia. Our strong global alliance relationship and delivery model allows us to provide global experience locally to ensure delivery quality to clients, as we have with Spotless.   We have been delighted to assist Spotless with this major technology transformation program."

About Spotless
Spotless is a leading international services company comprised of two distinct business operations, Facility Services and Retailer Services. Spotless Facility Services supplies single, multi and integrated facilities management, asset maintenance, catering, cleaning and laundry services across a broad range of industry sectors. Spotless employs approximately 40,000 people, supplemented by a network of skilled sub-contractors to deliver over 125 Facility Services. For more information, visit us at www.spotless.com

About Tata Consultancy Services
Tata Consultancy Services is an IT services, consulting and business solutions organisation that delivers real results to global business, ensuring a level of certainty no other firm can match. TCS offers a consulting-led, integrated portfolio of IT, BPO, infrastructure, engineering and assurance services. This is delivered through its unique Global Network Delivery Model™, recognised as the benchmark of excellence in software development. A part of the Tata Group, India's largest industrial conglomerate, TCS has over 238,583 of the world's best trained consultants in 42 countries. The Company generated consolidated revenues of US $ 10.17 billion for year ended 31 March, 2012 and is listed on the National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchange in India. For more information, visit us at www.tcs.com

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