When Will Jaguar Land Rover Restart Production? "no One Knows."
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Jaguar Land Rover's production halt has sparked concerns among suppliers, with the company seeking government support, while commenters criticize the company's management and IT partner TCS.
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The support is going to suppliers, who are the true victim, but it's privatize the gain, socialize the cost. JFR screwed up, so they should be the first to step up to assist the suppliers.
Other companies take notice and maybe actually take action.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/sep/16/jaguar-land...
Guess who was taking care for JLR's IT system? That's right, TCS.
https://doublepulsar.com/the-elephant-in-the-biz-outsourcing...
I know their systems and I can well imagine there's conversation about a greenfield rebuild for the essential manufacturing systems happening or taking place. I can't imagine some of the old processes still being viable after this shocker.
Perhaps they will do the same here but after some highly publicized security incidents sooner or later people will be calling a thorough independent audit of their systems.
[1] India's TCS says none of its systems were compromised in M&S hack:
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/indias-tcs-sa...
Wipro would call up our tech support and declare "it's not working fix it, and you need to explain to our customer why it's not working". Basically they would outsource their own work to our support teams by reporting everything as a technical problem. In truth they just rack mounted equipment and connected cables and did nothing after that.
Wipro got real mad when on a few occasions in front of their clueless customers I said "this has never worked and has never been configured to work, can't fix it if it was never right...". After a while they stopped putting me on conference calls. Boy did they try to get me in trouble with my bosses a lot, never worked as I was good at documenting things.
Lots of their customers had backup systems that never backed up a thing, for years (if ever) ... but the customers also had nobody employed who would know better.
It was a shocking thing to witness. These companies were totally dependent on their outsourcing and they had no idea what was going on. A few of their customers were "critical infrastructure" type companies.