OREANDA-NEWS. May 16, 2012. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS), a leading IT services, consulting, and business solutions firm, announced today that Spotless Group (Spotless), an international services company specialising in outsourced facility management, has gone live with the first phase of its SAP transformation programme.

Spotless selected SAP business management software to assist with its business and IT platform transformation programme. 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-focussed 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, MD and CEO, Spotless, said that the SAP solution is expected to streamline Spotless’ business operations as well as enhance information sharing and business administration efficiencies. Mr 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, Australia and New Zealand, Tata Consultancy Services, 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 programme.”