Solutions

Consumer tastes and trends change rapidly. Regulations on safety, fuel economy and emissions all present trade-offs to vehicle performance and style in automotive design. Deliver a high-quality product, while managing development costs and time to market.

Automotive CRM from IBM provides a single view of customer information accessible across your automotive enterprise. Lower call center operating costs. Increase call center efficiency. Boost customer satisfaction. Improve customer loyalty. IBM can help optimize automotive CRM to bring significant value to your organization.

The automotive design solution can help vehicle manufacturers and suppliers become more innovative to meet industry demands and increase profits. Learn how, through better automotive design processes, you can speed the development of new models more quickly and easily to achieve these goals.

Reduce product lead times and costs, and improve quality through the increased use of computer aided engineering (CAE) analysis and simulation. IBM has developed an integrated solution framework for CAE that can help auto makers reduce design and analysis cycle time, and improve flexibility and efficiency of engineering IT.

Automotive RFID from IBM provides locating systems to help prevent misplaced parts from stalling vehicle production. By enabling easier product identification and traceability, automotive RFID can deliver real insight into all the moving parts of your manufacturing processes to reduce order-to-delivery cycles.

Your automotive supply chain needs to be well connected to keep it running smoothly and efficiently. Lower inventory levels. Speed time to market. The automotive supply chain management solution from IBM can help you optimize asset utilization and create a supply chain that enables innovation.

Today's cars contain dozens of installed electronics components that control everything from air conditioning to keyless entry. IBM offers a software platform for design, development and implementation into vehicles, reducing design errors, controlling labor costs and speeding deployment.

Automotive telematics—traffic and navigation systems, emergency and roadside assistance, improved fleet management. Do you have a long-term telematics strategy in place to profit from new opportunities? IBM can put practical automotive telematics offerings within reach.

Energy costs can consume 30 to 40% of your operational budget—and these costs are projected to double over the next 5 years. Proactively addressing carbon management now can help you achieve compliance before mandates, develop a competitive advantage, strengthen your brand image and attain a high caliber workforce.

From conceptual design to manufacturing simulation, IBM offers solutions based on Dassault Systèmes applications to help improve your automotive product lifecycle management (PLM). Meet new and evolving consumer needs quickly by streamlining your product development with solutions from IBM.

The automotive dealer management system solution can help automotive companies increase productivity with seamless communication between OEMs and dealers to improve order planning, warranty claim, spare parts ordering processes. Now you can build a competitive edge with a single point of access to aftermarket data.

The auto industry is marked by a high degree of customization. Meeting individual customer requirements for enterprise asset management makes for an extremely competitive market for manufacturers, suppliers and dealers. IBM can help you address asset performance, risk and compliance management to stay ahead of the pack.

Improved automotive quality analysis, enabled by the IBM Quality Insight solution, can help automakers implement seamless quality management processes, reduce warranty costs, integrate virtually real time and historical data enterprise-wide and beyond to gain insight into failure pattern and improve quality.

IBM Systems solution for BW accelerator from SAP is an easy-to-deploy, prepackaged solution for near real-time analytics. This solution can help you access and analyze large volumes of business data, providing quicker access to management information for better day-to-day tactical and strategic business decisions.

Can your company produce successful new vehicles during budget cuts and workforce reductions? Do current processes help optimize product development, reduce manufacturing costs and time to market? IBM can help with innovative management tools.

Boost factory throughput. Cut costs. Drive efficiencies across global supply chains. Comply with new regulations. Today's automotive manufacturers must connect information from customers, operations, corporate functions and suppliers. That's why three technology leaders have teamed to offer powerful productivity tools.

The processes at work on your plant floor can make or break your automotive rollout. Out-of-date, disparate systems mean higher costs and slower output. IBM can help you with shop-to-enterprise integration and bill-of-material data integration as part of an overall manufacturing execution system. Learn how.

To enable automotive design collaboration, speed time to market, streamline business operations and foster innovative product development, you need to eliminate application silos that hinder communication with designers, partners, suppliers and distributors. The PLM integration and collaboration solution from IBM can help.

Automotive OEMs can increase asset visibility with accurate, timely information on container location and status throughout the supply chain. Our solution includes automatic identification (AutoID), such as radio frequency identification (RFID) to automate container check-in, checkout and accounting processes.

Changes in consumer behavior, continued pressure to reduce costs and growing complexity in supply chain management increase the need for a tighter link between suppliers and automotive manufacturing. Our solution facilitates data sharing to decrease miscommunications, while enabling you to sense and respond to change.

Address the product design and lifecycle management process by providing your engineers and analysts with a simulation and analysis framework. Our solution can include product and process engineering analysis, simulation data management, CAE, integration and optimization, deep computing capacity and storage virtualization.

Gain a view of your entire business operations—from product development to manufacturing to service after the sale—with consistent data, regardless of where it resides. The flexibility of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) can help you extend the value of PLM from engineering to your core business processes.

Are your inventory costs too high? Do you have transparency on your spare parts inventory along the end-to-end delivery chain? IBM can help you reduce inventory expenses, improve customer service, decrease expediting costs and increase technician productivity with the spare parts inventory management solution.

Supplier management has become crucial as auto makers increasingly depend on the supply chain for parts and services to manage products. Supplier management for parts quality solution from IBM enables a steady flow of information to and from suppliers to keep costs down, speed time to market, and ensure the highest quality.

Efficient supply chain collaboration in the automotive industry is the key to improving product profitability and innovation while cutting supplier costs. IBM can help leverage powerful new collaborative technologies that can shorten development cycles, reduce costs and improve resource utilization.

To build business relationships, you often need to travel, which can mean lost time, reduced productivity and increased expense. The telepresence meeting solution from IBM and Cisco provides an in-person experience, empowering you to interact more effectively with colleagues and customers in many locations.

Globalization, individualization, digitization and increasing competition are changing the automotive landscape. And new safety requirements and voluntary environmental commitments by the industry signal curves in the road ahead. Size no longer guarantees success. Companies must find new ways to create value to prosper.

Are your warranty costs higher than one percent of your revenue? Do you have a high number of recalls? Do you have problem identification and resolution processes in place? We can help you improve warranty and quality management processes across the enterprise with early warning systems and remote diagnostic telematics.