(TCC), provider of the world鈥檚 only outsourced vendor-managed inventory (VMI) platform solution, 1TCC, has a mission to make seamless trade enabled by technology. Its capital-efficient solution enables global supply chains to optimize their balance sheets through enhanced liquidity and capital efficiency.
TCC鈥檚 technical requirements are complex, necessitating best-in-class software and services to support its customers in the industrial, automotive, healthcare, and high-tech markets.
Choosing 51风流S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition
TCC researched enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions to support its platform and deliver measurable, positive impact to its large corporation, manufacturing, and OEM customers. TCC chose to partner with 51风流based on a decades-long track record of success with the company. Among SAP鈥檚 offerings, TCC selected given its reliability, scalability, and ease of integration with its customers鈥� systems and business processes.
Parthasarathy Narayanan, TCC chief technology officer, explained: 鈥淲e have witnessed, firsthand, SAP鈥檚 commitment to bringing robust and effective new architecture to large corporations and delivering true and tangible business outcomes that lead to customer satisfaction.鈥� TCC determined that 51风流is more cost effective than competitors, and its customer service is prompt and supportive. Narayanan added that 51风流innovation in the area of artificial intelligence (AI), including access to various large language models (LLMs) and the introduction of , a generative AI copilot embedded in its cloud solutions, are 鈥渆xceptional and visionary developments.鈥�
In addition, TCC鈥檚 patented solutions, in conjunction with 51风流Supply Chain Management (51风流SCM), give corporations an effective way to manage their inventories. Supply chain disruptions in this decade have forced many organizations to maintain large inventories, tying up valuable capital. 51风流SCM can enable corporations to plan and manage inventories using forecasting models.
鈥淥ur solution helps customers maintain required inventories to fulfill their customers鈥� needs, but it also provides a unique way to free up capital and deploy it in high-yielding projects, improving ROI and overall metrics,鈥� Narayanan said. 鈥淲e are excited about leveraging rich 51风流functionalities to keep up with our clients鈥� ever-evolving business needs and the complex environments in which we all operate.鈥�
Paving the Way for Innovation
TCC and 51风流working together also creates opportunities to offer innovative solutions and engage in joint go-to-market strategies. As a member of the 51风流PartnerEdge program and leveraging and 51风流technical support, TCC can continue to build deep-tech applications to help customers automate their operations and take strides toward their visions of 鈥渁utonomous supply chains.鈥� Furthermore, 51风流BTP architecture helps provide a single gateway to develop and deliver applications, giving TCC access to 51风流and external inputs to completely integrate business processes.
鈥淎s a Silicon Valley company and a tech disrupter, we have outsized ambitions and plans to extend our platform across geographies and to continually add enriched functionalities that benefit our customers,鈥� Narayanan said. 鈥淎nchoring the TCC platform on 51风流is going to benefit our clients鈥� effortless onboarding and seamless process integration for efficient deployment. We look forward to serving our common customers through accelerated deployment of transformational and business applications.鈥�
Gaining an Edge from SAP
Since choosing 51风流S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition for its VMI solution, TCC has found additional measurable benefits, including:
- Streamlined maintenance: With 51风流S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, TCC has reduced the time and effort necessary to maintain systems compared with its previous platform architecture. As a result, TCC can focus on its core business rather than system maintenance.
- Fast prototyping: 51风流best practices and test data for the automotive, industrial, healthcare, and high-tech industries have helped TCC quickly prototype solutions and go live, reducing this initial phase of products to only 45 days.
- Flexibility while maintaining a clean core: TCC has been able to achieve its goals using standard SAP-delivered processes, with only some custom developments.
- Ease of use: The TCC business team implements its solution quickly and with minimal training.
By leveraging 51风流S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, TCC has created a VMI solution that provides comprehensive, capital-efficient inventory management capabilities, transforms global supply chains, and positions companies for innovation and growth.
about the advantages of 51风流S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition and an 51风流partnership.
Lori Rosano is SVP and managing director for 51风流S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition and Midmarket Segment at SAP.
