Automotive

Overview

To stay on the fast track to success, integration of OEMs, suppliers, dealers, and customers is essential.

These companies use Cognos to: 

• Improve operational performance
• Improved revenue opportunity, by managing and controlling costs, improving quality, and accelerating time to delivery.
• Real-time information about projects, processes, operational performance, and markets gives you early warning of shifts in demand, customer requirements, and economic conditions.
• Reduce total cost of ownership by providing best-of-breed functionality and eliminating the need for the costly interfaces required by point solutions.
• Identify precisely where you're incurring product and production costs, enabling you to increase efficiencies across all assets.
• Locate-to-order, make-to-order, and make-to-stock processes provide insights into demand, inventory, and capacity -- enabling you to respond to customer needs.

Improve sales and Marketing performance

• Manage the entire value chain, communicating through enterprise portals and enabling global collaboration among employees, partners, and customers.
• Anticipate and adapt to market needs, identify new business opportunities, and explore new ways to grow market share, revenues, and profits.
• Accelerate time to market by enhancing communication, improving collaboration, and maintaining consistent data across all processes.

 Improve service

• Understand customer needs, enhance customer service, and provide superior support to maximize revenues in the high-margin aftermarket business.

Benefits and Value

Cognos integrated performance management software and services deliver value to the world’s leading automotive companies.

Reporting, analysis, and business intelligence

Cognos offers the most comprehensive reporting coverage in the industry. Identify important business issues, manage performance, and improve decision making.

You can use BI software to:

• Identify which processes and operations generate unfavorable variances and why.
• Identify under-performing suppliers.
• Reassess and optimize product mix for a specific region.
• Report on performance by department, employee, machine, customer, supplier, and operation.
• Automatically send email alerts to supply chain managers when a pre-determined business situation or unusual event occurs.
• Share information with key partners and suppliers through a BI extranet.

Planning, forecasting, and consolidation.

You can use planning and consolidation software to:

• Augment or replace cumbersome spreadsheet-based systems.
• Enable driver-based planning to streamline and focus efforts around HR plans, manufacturing requirements, or sales resources.
• Use rolling forecasts to increase forward visibility into financial performance.
• Reduce consolidation, close, and reporting cycles by days or weeks.
• Conduct what-if scenarios for different revenue projections or changes in business lines.

Learn more about Cognos planning and consolidation software.

Scorecarding

Track your key corporate performance indicators from your desktop.

With Cognos scorecarding software, you can:

• Link all performance indicators to model your annual business strategies.
• Monitor supply chain performance in terms of efficiency, utilization, quality, cost, and throughput.
• Identify variances in material usage, downtime, labor, and overhead by shift, operation, and supplier.
• Create and monitor key performance indicators, such as shipment performance, supply chain cycle time, inventory, quality, cost-to-serve, and supplier responsiveness.

Learn more about Cognos scorecarding software.