Tech Mahindra to Digitally Transform Supply Chain Networks with Tada Cognitive Solutions

Tech Mahindra has announced a strategic partnership with Tada Cognitive Solutions (TADA), a next generation digital twin-enabled supply chain software provider headquartered in the US. With control tower implementations, the alliance will enable Tech Mahindra’s customers to develop real-time end-to-end visibility across the whole supply chain network and expedite their digital transformation journey.

The collaborative offerings will enable manufacturers, consumer packaged goods (CPG), and retail businesses to realize the full potential of digital technology. It will boost collaboration among ecosystem partners to construct modular decision systems. Tech Mahindra’s deep domain expertise and system integration capabilities will be combined with TADA’s patented Digital Twin of the Supply Chain (DTSC) and Digital Twin of an Organization (DTO). This technology expands on the concept of a Digital Twin to create a Digital Duplicate capable of creating a real-time digital replica of an organization’s entire supply network in the cloud. This will help to expedite supply chain transformation efforts that focus on visibility, supply chain execution level analytics, and scenario building capabilities.

Lakshmanan Chidambaram, President, Americas Strategic Verticals, Tech Mahindra, said, “Control towers are increasingly becoming predominant in the supply chain ecosystem, and is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 16.7 percent from 2020 to 2027 globally. With the ongoing volatility and disruption of global supply-chains, our customers need to be connected by a common digital frame across their complex business networks, along with a control center to effectively identify risk and respond at speed. Our partnership with TADA is in line with our NXT.NOW framework that will enable our customers to drive real-time decision-making across their ecosystem. The partnership will bring a competitive advantage at speed and scale to the control tower solutions market in the US.”

Customers of Tech Mahindra will be able to meet the whole spectrum of business demands, including planning, supply chain, procurement, production, and logistics design, as a result of the partnership. TADA’s Digital Duplicate capabilities will generate a real-time digital replica of the organization’s entire supply network in the cloud, resulting in the development of a common language that links and empowers an organization’s people, processes, partners, and data. TADA’s unique Digital Duplicate technology will assist elevate the Digital Twin software model by building a digital replica of the enterprise’s whole ecosystem using millions of Digital Twins.

Seshadri Guha, CEO and Co-founder, Tada Cognitive Solutions, said, “We are very excited to partner with Tech Mahindra and utilize their deep domain expertise, global reach, and jointly accelerate bi-modal transformation for customers. The partnership will not only help organizations achieve operational results in the short-term, but also deliver sustainable digital transformation in the long-term. Our customers have gained competitive advantages by implementing the next generation Digital Duplicate technology. This approach has proven to be extraordinary successful across multiple customers and industries.”

The collaboration aligns with Tech Mahindra’s DigitALL philosophy for total business transformation. Tech Mahindra’s deep domain expertise in Supply Chain, Strategic Planning & Sourcing, Industry 4.0, Connected Warehousing & Logistics, made possible by new-age technologies such as IoT, Blockchain, RPA, Data analytics, Network security, and Cloud, enables companies across all verticals to reshape their value chains to be more agile and resilient.