AgenciesTata Consultancy Services has deployed a blockchain-based digital supply chain platform that will help the Government of India’s Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms (C-CAMP) to scale up indigenous Covid-19 diagnostic test-kit production capacity to a million test kits a day.
C-CAMP’s newly launched project, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, is called Indigenisation of Diagnostics (InDx), and aims to build a scalable supply-chain ecosystem of Indian MSMEs capable of producing large quantities of reagents and other components needed for RT-qPCR-based and other diagnostic test kits for Covid-19.
As a technology partner to C-CAMP, the IT service provider has developed and deployed a digital supply-chain platform to manage the MSME ecosystem, based on its TCS Data Marketplace solution.
The platform aggregates test kit supply data of Tier 2 and 3 manufacturers of kits, enzymes, primers and antibodies, and provides visibility to Tier 1 suppliers as well as to C-CAMP on supplier-specific quality levels, capacities and inventories across the ecosystem, allowing the latter to respond to the demand for those test kits from the Government as testing programs are ramped up across the country.
The platform facilitates standardized, controlled data exchanges across ecosystem participants using blockchain at the back-end to ensure the immutability of audit logs. Due to the blockchain-based framework, TCS said that the security and privacy protection aspects are also ensured.
“We are delighted to partner with C-CAMP in this bold new initiative to scale up India’s testing capacity, and make Covid-19 testing accessible to every Indian who needs it. The TCS Data Marketplace solution is the lynchpin that anchors InDx’s supplier ecosystem of micro, small and medium enterprises, democratizing supplier data, enhancing supply chain visibility, and driving superior outcomes for all stakeholders. The success of this initiative sets an example for how ecosystem-based partnerships can be put to work for other mission-mode programs of national importance,” said Dinanath Kholkar, Global Head – Analytics and Insights, TCS.
C-CAMP’s newly launched project, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, is called Indigenisation of Diagnostics (InDx), and aims to build a scalable supply-chain ecosystem of Indian MSMEs capable of producing large quantities of reagents and other components needed for RT-qPCR-based and other diagnostic test kits for Covid-19.
The goal of the project is to eliminate supply-chain bottlenecks, and to handhold MSMEs to help bridge capability gaps, meet necessary quality standards and expand capacities to indigenously produce a million test kits a day.
As a technology partner to C-CAMP, the IT service provider has developed and deployed a digital supply-chain platform to manage the MSME ecosystem, based on its TCS Data Marketplace solution.
The platform aggregates test kit supply data of Tier 2 and 3 manufacturers of kits, enzymes, primers and antibodies, and provides visibility to Tier 1 suppliers as well as to C-CAMP on supplier-specific quality levels, capacities and inventories across the ecosystem, allowing the latter to respond to the demand for those test kits from the Government as testing programs are ramped up across the country.
The platform facilitates standardized, controlled data exchanges across ecosystem participants using blockchain at the back-end to ensure the immutability of audit logs. Due to the blockchain-based framework, TCS said that the security and privacy protection aspects are also ensured.
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“We are delighted to partner with C-CAMP in this bold new initiative to scale up India’s testing capacity, and make Covid-19 testing accessible to every Indian who needs it. The TCS Data Marketplace solution is the lynchpin that anchors InDx’s supplier ecosystem of micro, small and medium enterprises, democratizing supplier data, enhancing supply chain visibility, and driving superior outcomes for all stakeholders. The success of this initiative sets an example for how ecosystem-based partnerships can be put to work for other mission-mode programs of national importance,” said Dinanath Kholkar, Global Head – Analytics and Insights, TCS.
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