Vendor Analysis
published on May 30, 2025
Report Overview:
This vendor assessment analyzes Tata Consultancy Services' offerings and capabilities in procurement services
Who is this Report for:
NelsonHall’s Modernizing Procurement Through Digitalization profile on Tata Consultancy Services is a comprehensive assessment of Tata Consultancy Services’ procurement offerings and capabilities, designed for:
- Sourcing managers monitoring the capabilities of existing suppliers of procurement transformation services with a focus on outsourcing and digitalization capabilities and identifying vendor suitability for procurement RFPs
- Vendor marketing, sales, and business managers looking to benchmark themselves against their peers
- Financial analysts and investors specializing in procurement transformation services focusing on outsourcing and digitalization capabilities.
Scope of this Report:
The report provides a comprehensive and objective analysis of Tata Consultancy Services’ procurement transformation offerings, capabilities, and market and delivery strengths, including:
- Identification of the company’s strategy, emphasis, and new developments with a focus on transformation and digitalization capabilities within procurement
- Analysis of the company’s strengths, challenges, and outlook
- Analysis of the profile of the company’s customer base, including the company’s targeting strategy and examples of current contracts
- Analysis of the company’s offerings and key service components
- Analysis of the company’s delivery organization, including the location of delivery centers.
Key Findings & Highlights:
TCS has a mature service offering across the source-to-pay value chain. The company provides master data management services that cut across source-to-pay offerings. The company focuses on embedding sustainability solutions as a key enabler alongside mature core procurement offerings.
The company’s procurement offering aims to deliver client outcomes such as:
- Reduction in cost per PO
- Identify savings opportunities and reduce risk
- Improve spend under management
- Reduce TAT and improve accuracy
- Navigate through the buying channel compliance
- Access to specialized expertise.
TCS uses technology such as GenAI for cognitive buying support, contract summarization, vendor panelling and onboarding, RFQ creation, quote validation and tabulation, spend data classification, smart negotiation and vendor normalization. Advanced and predictive analytics are leveraged in spend analytics, catalog inclusion and adoption, material price prediction, and demand aggregation.
Examples of some of their recent client success stories include:
- $32m margin improvement for a global cruise holding company
- ~10-15% reduction in COGS for a Brazilian oil refinery
- ~40% reduction in procurement ops cost for a U.S. chip manufacturer
- 100% compliance in sourcing processes and RFx events for an Australian transport operator.
Digital transformation is also an integral part of TCS’ procurement offering, with ~25 customers, ~60 deployed use cases, ~30 process mining and SCM experts, ~$300m savings opportunities identified, and ~100 apps and solutions as part of the overall digital enablers and ecosystem that TCS leverages to deliver client outcomes.
TCS is positioning its procurement services as a strategic growth lever, underpinned by an end-to-end transformation, consulting, and platform-led innovation with an ecosystem of digital value builders. TCS positions its procurement services as a consult-to-operate, technology-integrated model aligned with the evolving expectations of CPOs.
