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BANGALORE, NOV. 2. Tata Motors Limited (TML) would have the "largest integrated information technology application for any auto company in the country," in two years, a key company official said here on Tuesday. Once ready, the project for which TML was working with three outside vendors in addition to Tata Technologies, would connect every function of the company with every other, from board room strategising to customers' access to dealerships, the official said. V. Sumantran, Executive Director of TML's passenger car business unit and engineering research centre, told an audience of design and manufacturing technologies specialists that the project represented a "major investment in information technology" for the company. Mr. Sumantran was delivering the keynote address at an international conference on `Total engineering, analysis and manufacturing technologies' at the Indian Institute of Science here that concludes on November 4. While declining to give a figure on the investments, he told The Hindu, that "We are working with Tata Technologies (an `end-to-end' engineering and design firm owned by the Tata group), German company SAP for the ERP (enterprise resource planning) part, UGS PLM Solutions for the (product life cycle management) part and with Siebel on the CRM (customer resource management) part of the application". The motivation for this project, building "the largest single server application for an auto company," was the large improvement in efficiency it was expected to yield, he said. From hiring FreeMarkets that helped boost its `e procurement' to a fifth of all purchases last year, to hiring a top notch IBM official to head operations at Tata Technologies, TLM has taken various steps in exploiting IT. Tata Technologies' website says some 200 staff were working on the SAP projects alone.
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