Tata Indica: The Making of the Small Car

            
 
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Case Code : OPER002
Case Length : 08 Pages
Period : 1990 - 2001
Organization : Telco
Pub Date : 2003
Teaching Note : Available
Countries : India
Industry : Automobile

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Background Note Contd...

The first commercial vehicle was produced in 1977. In 1983, Telco started producing heavy commercial vehicles.

In 1986, the company rolled out its first light commercial vehicle - TATA 407 that had a completely indigenous design. In 1991, Telco produced indigenously - designed passenger cars - Tata Sierra and Tata Estate and in the same year it started its assembly and training plant at Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh). The product range of the company included passenger cars, heavy commercial vehicles, trucks and buses (Refer Table II).

By the late 1990s, Telco had emerged as a leading name in commercial vehicles, passenger vehicles, construction equipment, metal cutting and grinding machines, industrial shutters, high quality steel, alloy castings and other related products.

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In 2000, commercial vehicles accounted for 94% of its gross revenues; vehicle spare parts accounted for 5%; and hire purchase income, 1%.

The Story of Indica

In the early 1990s, Telco's Chairman Ratan Tata (Tata), was flirting with the idea of developing a small car. By mid-1994 a rudimentary design was in place. In 1995, Telco announced that it planned to build a car which would be priced close to the Maruti 800, shaped like the Zen, and spacious as an Ambassador. Producing the new small car - Indica - represented a different kind of challenge for Telco. Should Tata succeed, he would change the face of Telco.

As a truck-maker, Telco was so integrated that it even made it own castings and forgings.

As an automaker, it would have to focus on the value chain that stretched between raw materials and after-sales service as well as assembling the parts into the complete automobile.

For its new venture, Telco outsourced 80% of the components (1,200 of its 1,500-plus parts), from 200-odd vendors. To develop the Indica, Telco had to combine the learnings from its predecessors with its own unique supply chain management strategies to ensure a sustainable low-cost platform...

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