Tata Steel to accelerate steel solutions growth in Europe

Tata Steel has chosen CA Technologies to help accelerate the innovation of new steel solutions to drive top-line growth. The company, which supplies steel and related services to many demanding markets worldwide, will use the CA Clarity? Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) to manage the entire new product and service lifecycle from innovation and product design through production and delivery. As a result, Tata Steel expects to achieve a structured approach to innovation which will help drive profitability and competitive differentiation, and enhance customer satisfaction.

Tata Steel has been transforming its European operations into a more customer focused organisation by realigning its internal resources to industry sectors, such as automotive, lifting and excavating, energy and power, packaging, construction and rail.  This new organisational structure enables Tata Steel to better support customers for success in their markets. By gaining better insight into customer needs and emerging market opportunities, Tata Steel can quickly innovate in ways that better drive company growth. CA Clarity PPM will be used to better manage this process. By overcoming silos of innovations that previously resided in each business unit, the PPM solution will help optimise Tata Steel's time-to-value and return on investment, by aligning the portfolio of innovation initiatives with the steelmaker's business strategy. Every possible innovation will come under the microscope, ranging from ways to expand and improve the quality and performance of the company's steel products and related service to facilitating new products to be tested on an industrial scale, such as can making, automotive solutions, parts for lifting and excavating equipment and for various construction applications.

CA Clarity PPM will provide Tata Steel with a single, unified "decision engine" which will capture and hold information about the portfolio of steel products and development projects, and the people and resources that support the innovation activities. This centralised decision engine will enable the company to prioritise the right opportunities, collaborate on developing the right products, and track and optimise the innovation portfolio at every stage. In the renewable energy market, for example, Tata Steel will be uniquely positioned to capture, prioritise and accelerate steel innovations used in the manufacture of wind farms.