Information technology major Tata Consultancy Services is planning to scale up its SAP practice and would be recruiting at least 1,000 professionals over the next six months.
Currently, the SAP practise within TCS has a team of around 300 people, but the equation is set to change drastically over the next few months.
The huge recruitment for this purpose could see TCS overshooting its recruitment target for the year which it had pegged at around 3,000 people. TCS currently has about 21,000 professionals on its rolls.
"The huge scaling up of this practise follows the new ERP-II solution by SAP which requires all vendors to develop industry specific modules based on the original package. TCS, as a key vendor for SAP, would have a major role to play within this space since SAP has 23 different industry solutions," a senior TCS executive said.
The recruitments by TCS for this initiative would be in the nature of lateral hiring since the recruits would require to have a certain level of expertise to be exposed to implementation of solutions of this kind.
"The importance that the company is placing on the development of this division can also be gauged from the fact that it is providing its current employees an option to shift over to this division," the official added.
Due to the magnitude of the scaling up of the practise, which would see an almost fourfold increase in the head count of this division, TCS is creating a special training unit comprising experienced professionals who would train the new recruits in SAP technologies.
The SAP practise, a part of the e-business practice at TCS, which contributes almost 40 per cent of the company's approximately $1 billion revenue, would target opportunities in the Asia-Pacific region, China and Latin America besides India.
In India, the small and medium enterprise segment and the public sector undertakings and other government agencies offer a vast potential for the deployment of these technologies.
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