Tata Motors : Global Delivery Centre expands...

Key Highlights:

• Inaugurates its state-of-the-art Global Delivery Centre (GDC) facility in Pune that can accommodate over 900 employees.
• New GDC facility developed as per future growth plans, spreading across 50,000 sq ft area.

Tata Motors today inaugurated its Global Delivery Centre (GDC)'s new facility in Pune at the ICC Devi Gaurav Technology Park at the hands of Mr. Guenter Butschek, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, in the presence of senior management from Tata Motors, JLR and other Tata Motors Group companies.

GDC has been set up to streamline business processes and achieve cost optimization goals through conceptualization and deployment of shared services strategies for Tata Motors Group. With an objective to scale up its operations across multiple locations and timezones in 12-15 months, this state-of the art facility, has been built, spreading across 50,000 sq. ft. to capitalize on Pune's rich pool of ITES and automobile industry talent.

With operations primarily based out of Pune, GDC also has footprints in locations including Mumbai, Jamshedpur, Lucknow, Dharwad, Pantnagar and Sanand, supporting 12 Tata Motors Group companies including JLR, Tata Marcopolo, TAL, Tata Technologies, TML Drivelines and Tata Motors Finance.

Commenting on the occasion, Mr. C. Ramakrishnan, Group Chief Financial Officer, Tata Motors, said, 'As part of continuing efforts to stream line our business processes, GDC is a critical function central to the business delivering SLA based transaction services, transforming business processes and analyzing transactional data to develop and deploy data models for better decision support. We are delighted to inaugurate the new state-of-the-art Global Delivery Center in Pune.'

Tata Motors launched Shared Services in 2003 with Finance Function and expanded to GDC in 2013 with a team of 120. Today, the team has grown to a strong pool of close to 600 professionals, delivering to over 160 business processes. It has also filed 2 IPRs for unique process innovations within this short period. Over the last year, GDC has won several awards in the shared services domain in India as well as at international level. These include awards for customer service, process efficiency, entrepreneurship, and process innovation.

About Tata Motors

Tata Motors Limited is India's largest automobile company, with consolidated revenues of INR 2,62,796 crores (USD 42.04 billion) in 2014-15. Through subsidiaries and associate companies, Tata Motors has operations in the UK, South Korea, Thailand, South Africa and Indonesia. Among them is Jaguar Land Rover, the business comprising the two iconic British brands. It also has an industrial joint venture with Fiat in India. With over 8 million

Tata vehicles plying in India, Tata Motors is the country's market leader in commercial vehicles and among the top in passenger vehicles. Tata cars, buses and trucks are being marketed in several countries in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, South East Asia, South America, Australia, CIS and Russia.