New Delhi, Nov 6 (IANS): Leading global professional services firm EY on Monday announced "EY Catalyst" -- a new Cloud-based platform that can help businesses in India enhance their performance in supply chain and manufacturing.

"EY Catalyst" allows round-the-clock access to businesses to an extensive IP database that contains tens of thousands of supply chain and manufacturing operational capabilities in multiple languages.

The platform has been in use for more than 20 years in major companies across Europe, the US, Latin America, Asia-Pacific and Australia.

"The 'EY Catalyst' platform is yet another way we are working in India to help businesses transform their end to end supply chains into strategic assets and valuable sources for competitive advantage, with advanced capabilities to help increase sales, reduce risk and raise cost competitiveness," explained Ashish Nanda, Partner and India Leader-Supply Chain Advisory Services, EY.

With this, businesses will be able to tap into a database that includes self-assessments, custom-built operational excellence journey maps, leading practices, training tools and analytics capabilities to help manage and monitor their operational improvements.