Automobile company centralizes master data management for improved efficiency
1. Automotive the way we do it
Automobile Company Centralizes
Master Data Management for
Improved Efficiency
Capgemini helps build a master data system with
a new configuration engine for cars, reducing
costs and improving data quality
The Situation The Solution
The company is a leading producer of Capgemini helped the company
premium cars and one of the largest implement a system for the
manufacturers of heavy- and medium- centralized administration of master
duty trucks in the world. data by the central sales team and
rationalization of master data by
The company wanted to implement wholesale teams. The system supports
an integrated solution for product the provision of master data via a
and price Master Data Management staging environment for the testing,
(MDM) for its Car division. The approval and versioning functions.
objective was to integrate central sales,
wholesale, retail and its customers’ The system also provides several
systems with regard to master data, central services such as evaluation,
and to use the same master data validation for ordering and vehicle
for product offerings and ordering. configuration, which comprises a new
The company goal was to gain configuration engine called Global
improvements in terms of the effort Car Configurator (GCC).
spent, data quality provided and
time saved.