Jaguar Land Rover accelerates digital transformation with Tata Technologies partnership

Jaguar Land Rover accelerates digital transformation with Tata Technologies partnership

(IN BRIEF) Jaguar Land Rover has partnered with Tata Technologies to accelerate its digital transformation strategy. Tata Technologies will provide an integrated Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system to streamline and consolidate information across JLR’s core business areas, including manufacturing, logistics, supply chain, finance, and purchasing modules. This will improve operational visibility and agility, helping JLR respond to issues and opportunities more efficiently. The partnership will also integrate SAP S/4 HANA and SAP BTP with existing software to upgrade JLR’s architecture as part of the company’s digital transformation strategy.

(PRESS RELEASE) GAYDON, UK, 14-Mar-2023 — /EuropaWire/ — Jaguar Land Rover Limited, also known as JLR, a British multinational automobile manufacturer, has announced its partnership with Tata Technologies, a global engineering, product development, and digital services company, to accelerate its digital transformation. The partnership aims to streamline and consolidate information across JLR’s core business areas, including manufacturing, logistics, supply chain, finance, and purchasing modules.

The first phase of the partnership will focus on JLR’s UK core production facilities, with solutions subsequently deployed to other global locations. Tata Technologies will deliver an end-to-end integrated Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system to transform JLR’s operations, bringing data and knowledge from multiple departments into a single source. The intuitive new user interface of Tata Technologies’ award-winning software will drive stability in operations, improving visibility both between teams and for suppliers.

The integration of the ERP system will provide a more agile and faster-to-market capability for new vehicles, helping JLR respond to issues, challenges, and opportunities in an agile and timely manner. ERP systems are also capable of aggregating, storing, and interpreting data to provide insights instantly, making them an essential tool for businesses looking to stay ahead of the curve.

The agreement between JLR and Tata Technologies furthers JLR’s alignment with the Tata Group of companies as part of its Reimagine strategy. Tata Technologies has more than 30 years of experience in product and digital engineering, with a global network of over 11,000 employees and clients across multiple countries.

In addition to establishing a standard operating model, Tata Technologies will integrate SAP S/4 HANA and SAP BTP with existing software to upgrade JLR’s architecture as part of the company’s digital transformation strategy. The SAP S/4 HANA software package represents a shift from legacy ERP solutions to a modern cloud-based system, driving operational efficiencies and stability.

Overall, the partnership between JLR and Tata Technologies aims to transform the automaker’s industrial strategy by digitizing its core business functions, providing a single source of data and knowledge across departments, and enabling faster and more efficient decision-making.

Speaking on the collaboration, Barbara Bergmeier, Executive Director of Industrial Operations, Jaguar Land Rover, commented:

“The partnership with Tata Technologies will allow us to accelerate the transformation of our core ERP infrastructure to deliver the efficiency and usability we require for the future and our transformation objectives. It also demonstrates the power of being part of the Tata Group to help us to achieve targets for our supply chain and wider industrial operations.”

Warren Harris, MD and CEO, Tata Technologies, commented:

“The ERP transformation collaboration with Jaguar Land Rover is another milestone in a nearly two-decade relationship with Tata Technologies. The trust awarded by Jaguar Land Rover reaffirms our long-standing expertise in automotive engineering and digital solution offerings. We believe this collaboration will help Jaguar Land Rover to build innovative and sustainable vehicles and achieve faster time to market using new-age digital technologies. We are delighted to strengthen our existing engagement with Jaguar Land Rover and are fully committed to deploying our digital engineering capabilities and assisting with the launch of their new generation of vehicles.”

Anthony Battle, Chief Digital & Information Officer, Jaguar Land Rover, commented:

“Jaguar Land Rover’s digital transformation will play a pivotal role in the business becoming more agile as part of Reimagine and fulfilling its potential as a tech leader. As part of our Digital 2024 programme, we are transitioning to a cloud-native digital landscape and the partnership with Tata Technologies enables us to take another important step on that journey.”

NOTES TO EDITORS

Through its Reimagine strategy, Jaguar Land Rover is at the forefront of the rapidly changing automotive industry with a focus on electrification, digital services and data. The company is focused on enhancing its in-house data capability, which is crucial to its digital transformation to deliver clients a modern luxury, connected experience.

About Jaguar Land Rover

Jaguar Land Rover’s Reimagine strategy is delivering a sustainability-rich vision of modern luxury by design.

We are transforming our business to become carbon net zero across our supply chain, products, and operations by 2039. We have set a roadmap to reduce emissions across our own operations and value chains by 2030 through approved, science-based targets. Electrification is central to this strategy and before the end of the decade our Range Rover, Discovery, Defender collections will each have a pure electric model, while Jaguar will be entirely electric.

At heart we are a British company, with two design and engineering sites, three vehicle manufacturing facilities, an engine manufacturing centre, and a battery assembly centre in the UK. We also have vehicle plants in China, Brazil, India, Austria, and Slovakia, as well as seven technology hubs across the globe.

Jaguar Land Rover is a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Motors Limited, part of Tata Sons.

About Tata Technologies

We’re a global product engineering and digital services company focused on fulfilling our mission of helping the world drive, fly, build, and farm by enabling our customers to realize better products and deliver better experiences. We’re the strategic engineering partner businesses turn to when they aspire to be better. Manufacturing companies rely on us to enable them to conceptualize, develop and realize better products that are safer, cleaner, and improve the quality of life for all the stakeholders, helping us achieve our vision of #EngineeringABetterWorld.

To find out more information about our engineering services please visit our About us section and our website – www.tatatechnologies.com and also follow us on Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube for the latest updates and innovations.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Media Enquiries Jaguar Land Rover:

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T: +44 7467 448 310

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SOURCE: Jaguar Land Rover