The implementation of BMW Group's strategy leads to a transformation towards a mobility tech company. This impacts customer experience, shareholders, stakeholders, partners and employees. BMW Group IT is organized in a worldwide network across 60 nationalities in 29 countries. All main departments work within BizDevOps structures in close collaboration with business units. Process mining helps BMW Group improve products/services, achieve data-driven production, and bring the agile transformation to the next level, though challenges remain in transparency, quantifying value, and scaling the process mining team.
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BMW Group IT Transformation with Process Mining
1. BMW Group IT | 3rd April 2019
BOOSTING EFFICIENCY @ BMW GROUP.
#ENJOYIT
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IMPLEMENTATION OF THE STRATEGY NUMBER ONE > NEXT.
LEADS TO A TRANSFORMATION PROCESS TOWARDS A MOBILITY TECH
COMPANY.
IMPACT ON:
• Customer experience
• Shareholder / analysts
• Stakeholder / partner
• Employees / attractiveness
Vision
Competitive
Advantage
Strategic
Approach
Corporate
Culture
PRODUCT
S
MOBILITY &
SERVICES
SOFTWARE &
SERVICES (TECH)
"Value shifts from hardware to software and
services."
Harald Krüger, 16.03.2016, BMW Group Annual Accounts Press
Conference
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THE BMW GROUP IT ORGANIZED IN A WORLDWIDE NETWORK.
form the global BMW Group IT network in headquarters, in
markets, in shared service centers and in innovation
locations (tech offices).
SAP Shared
Service Center ZA
Shared Service
Center USA
BMW Group IT
Europe
BMW Group IT
APAC
BBA IT (Joint Venture)
Tech Office
Silicon
Valley
Tech Office Asia
BMW Group IT
Americas
60 Nationalities in 29 Countries
optimize existing business processes and enable new
business areas.
230 products and a complete product
orientation
are connected with the BMW Group ConnectedDrive
Backend.
~ 12,200,000 Vehicles
to the BMW Group backend through ConnectedDrive are
processed daily.
~ 1,000,000,000 Requests
(Sales cooperation, offices, …) are connected through the
global network infrastructure.
694 Locations
BMW GROUP
IT.
SSC PORT.
CTW
(Joint Venture)
5,500 employees
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ALL MAIN DEPARTMENTS WORK WITHIN BIZDEVOPS STRUCTURES IN
CLOSE COLLABORATION WITH OUR BUSINESS.
Infrastructure and
Technology Management
EMEA EMEA
Governance
• Proximity to local markets and the business
• Integration of Application Management in autonomous
product teams
• Reduction of interfaces
• Minimum Governance
Business
Processes
(Prod.)
Business
Processes
(Sales &
Marketing)
Enabling
Processes
Business
Processes
(Develop.)
Financial
Services,
BMW EU
Bank
Markets
NSC,
NFSC
Connected
Vehicle,
Digital
Backend,
Big Data
Region
EMEA
Region
Americas
Region
APAC
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WE CAME A LONG WAY SINCE 2015.
Our Journey
01.07.2015
Integration of
Design & Build
functions
04.05.2016
Start IT Strategy
implementation
25.10.2016
Initiative 100%
Agile
01.06.2017
Group IT DevOps
structure
11.07.2017
Back2Code
Strategy
Preparatio
n
100% Agile
BMW Group IT
20.07.2018
Product Portfolio
1.0
01.09.2018
Critical
TechWorks
20.07.2018
Start
BizDevOps
Implementatio
n
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WE WORKED INTENSIVELY ON OUR 4 DIMENSIONS AND TOOK OUR
100% AGILE TRANSFORMATION TO THE NEXT LEVEL.
100% AGILE
WATERFALL
From
plan-driven to value-driven
software development
FLEXIBILITY & SPEED
BMW GROUP
IT
Strategy
IT IN THE
PRODUCT &
IN
SERVICES
DIGITALIZATION
(ltO,OtO,OtD,DtCC, BM/RM)
BUSINESS
INNOVATION
CUSTOMER-
CENTRIC IT
SERVICE-
DELIVERY
PEOPLE &
CULTURE
#enjoyIT
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TARGET VISION: A COMBINED PRODUCT WITH ONE BUDGET FOR
BIZ, DEV AND OPS.
Embedded Teams with end-to-end responsibility and BizDevOps skills.
„We want
the optimal
business value!“
PRODUCTPROJECT
WALLOFCONFUSION
WALLOFCONFUSION
Software
Code
Duties
„I want
Requirements
and Flexibility“
„I want
Change“
Product
Owner
prioritize
s
Backlog
„I want
Stability“
IT Software
Development
Business BIZ DEV
OPS
IT Software
Operations
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PROCESS MINING HELPS TO BRING THE AGILE TRANSFORMATION
TO THE NEXT LEVEL.
STARTING POINT TARGETPROCESS MINING
Visualiz
e Benchmar
k
Standardi
ze
Optimize
& speed
up
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PROCESS MINING HELPS US TO IMPROVE OUR PRODUCTS AND
SERVICES.
Reduce throughput
times & rework rates.
Improve transparency
& product quality.
Reduce development
cycles & increase
standards.
Improve compliance &
increase automation
rates.
Get rid of unused
system functionalities &
increase
ticket solution quality.
Understand how to best
add
value for our
customers.
Get better insights how
customers use our
products.
Faster and more
reliable financing
decisions.
Purchasing
& Finance
Development
Change
Management
Production
Leasing
User
Experienc
e
Aftersales
IT
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PROCESS MINING HELPS US TO ACHIEVE DATA DRIVEN
PRODUCTION.
Better analysis of
process bottlenecks
& rework efforts
Evaluate and quantify
effectiveness of process
changes immediately
Combine quality and
process information
to identify process
weaknesses easier
Improved daily
reporting
possibilities
High usability of Celonis
allows plant employees to
generate
ad hoc reports whenever
Support new production
plants and model starts by
additional process
benchmarks
Perfect overall process
transparency in near real time
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GREAT FIRST STEPS – BUT WE STILL HAVE A CHALLENGING ROAD
AHEAD OF US.
Transparency can cause pain and adversities!
Naming (quantitative) business value for analytics is not always popular and easy!
Scaling the Process Mining team fast enough to support all requests within the
BMW Group is challenging – but it‘s all about people!
One size does not fit all – different business units need different solutions!
The process mining world is fast changing. We need to stay open minded for new ideas!
Learning from each other helps us all to get better – we‘re looking forward
to great discussions with all of you at Celosphere and in the future!
On the way to the next level of our agile transformation - for the whole BMW Group, not only for IT - Process Mining plays an important part.
The starting point is similar for a lot of our processes – and might sound very familiar to all of you:
Processes are often highly complex and slow.
They affect multiple departments and various IT systems.
Users of a process often become „creative“ in using it and the number of process variants increase over time. Some of these variants are not as planned and in some cases not even fully compliant.
The level of process transparency is often low and sometimes noone has a complete overview of them.
But how can Celonis Process Mining help to improve this situation?
With Process Mining we can for the first time visualize in its full complexity how we really live our processes and not only how we would like them to be. Hereby even process owners can win completely new insights and transparency.
We then benchmark their performance within our company but also towards industry standards. This helps to gain insights into the quality and cycle times of all our key processes.
By standardizing we reduce unnecessary complexity of our processes and therefore become faster and more flexible for challenges ahead.
We identify optimisation potentials and see the underlying reasons, why some processes might not yet be perfect in reality. KPIs can be good first indicators of problems, but can sometimes also lead to narrowly minded attempts to just achieve the KPIs without having the real optimisation target in mind. Process Mining goes deeper and really helps to bring our company‘s performance to a new level. Only companies with fast and efficient processes will have a chance to be successful in the future!
The automotive industry needs to become more agile to be able to react better to increasingly faster changing market conditions and to new competitors:
Shorter cycle times and higher automatisation rates bring agility by speed.
Less rework and higher process conformity bring agility by standardisation and quality.
New process insights bring agility by transparancy.
With Process Mining we enable our business units to regain full control over their processes and thereby reach better agility levels fast!
On the way to the next level of our agile transformation - for the whole BMW Group, not only for IT - Process Mining plays an important part.
The starting point is similar for a lot of our processes – and might sound very familiar to all of you:
Processes are often highly complex and slow.
They affect multiple departments and various IT systems.
Users of a process often become „creative“ in using it and the number of process variants increase over time. Some of these variants are not as planned and in some cases not even fully compliant.
The level of process transparency is often low and sometimes noone has a complete overview of them.
But how can Celonis Process Mining help to improve this situation?
With Process Mining we can for the first time visualize in its full complexity how we really live our processes and not only how we would like them to be. Hereby even process owners can win completely new insights and transparency.
We then benchmark their performance within our company but also towards industry standards. This helps to gain insights into the quality and cycle times of all our key processes.
By standardizing we reduce unnecessary complexity of our processes and therefore become faster and more flexible for challenges ahead.
We identify optimisation potentials and see the underlying reasons, why some processes might not yet be perfect in reality. KPIs can be good first indicators of problems, but can sometimes also lead to narrowly minded attempts to just achieve the KPIs without having the real optimisation target in mind. Process Mining goes deeper and really helps to bring our company‘s performance to a new level. Only companies with fast and efficient processes will have a chance to be successful in the future!
The automotive industry needs to become more agile to be able to react better to increasingly faster changing market conditions and to new competitors:
Shorter cycle times and higher automatisation rates bring agility by speed.
Less rework and higher process conformity bring agility by standardisation and quality.
New process insights bring agility by transparancy.
With Process Mining we enable our business units to regain full control over their processes and thereby reach better agility levels fast!
Our business units and our Process Mining team have identified a huge range of potentials for Process Mining for the BMW Group.
Hereby we do not limit ourselves to „standard“ use cases like Purchase-to-pay, Order-to-cash, etc. but also very much focus on our value creating processes like development and production.
Some exciting areas where we already use Process Mining are:
In Purchasing and Finance we use Process Mining to ensure and monitor full compliance of our processes. Furthermore our Process Mining team works in close cooperation with our Robotics Process Automation team to increase automation rates and therefore reduce cost and improve process quality.
Our Development departments face the challenge to reduce development cycles to stay competitive to small and very agile new competitors while still keeping our high quality levels. We can achieve this for example by increasing standardisation and reducing unneccesary complexity.
BMW‘s Change Management also needs to react extremely fast and reliable. Since many departments are involved in these processes, Process Mining is essential to achieve full transparency here and to avoid delays in the start of production, quality issues and product recalls later.
In Production we need to be fast and efficient. Process Mining helps to reduce our throughput times significantly and to minimize the rework rates, i.e. improve quality of our production processes.
But BMW Group is more than just producing premium quality cars. We also help you to customers to finance their cars and Process Mining helps us to achieve faster and more reliable financing decisions.
Process Mining also helps us to better understand how our customers use our products. We get transparency into how certain functionalities, for example our navigation systems, car entertainment, etc. are used and how we can improve user experience. Process Mining also helps to get rid of unneaded and expensive features or model variants.
BMW wants to support our customers after they have bought their car and Aftersales therefore plays a very important part for our business model. Process Mining helps us to improve interaction with our customers in this phase and to give them premium support.
Last but not least we use Celonis Process Mining to improve our IT landscape.Process Mining helps to get rid of many unused IT system functionalities by better understanding how our business users really use IT systems and the underlying processes. This reduces opertions and maintenance costs, but also system migration costs significantly and frees resources for more value adding tasks.Furthermore Process Mining helps us to improve our ticket solution processes and thereby make our customers more happy and to support them faster and better.
In the past 2 years we have learned that there is almost no process where Process Mining can‘t add value and the main challenge therefore often is to decide where the business value of Process Mining is highest.The potential is huge!
To give you a better understanding on how we use Process Mining, let‘s have a closer look at Production.
Our target is to achieve a fully data driven production and we therefore analyze and monitor our Production Processes in near real time (in 15 minute intervals) with Celonis.
By doing so…
We get complete overall process transparency for production processes with more than 1000 activities.
We can identify quality issues in the production processes and inform the responsibles in the plant immediately.
We can therefore reduce process bottlenecks and rework efforts immediately.
Next to these analytics aims, Celonis also helps to produce daily reports for the plant managers to inform them about the performance of the production process. We can hereby monitor, if production process targets are really met.
Finally Process Mining helps to see fast and reliable, if process changes are effective or if they maybe cause some new problems.
To achieve these targets it‘s important to emphasize that BMW IT only provides the data model, some first basic dashboards and expert support to our colleagues from production.
The process responsibles from the plants then generate their own ad hoc reports and detailed dashboards – based on their specific needs. The high usability of Celonis is great for business users to achieve this!
Next to optimising existing processes, we also support new production plants and model starts. Process Mining hereby helps to avoid or at least reduce initial problems and to get production up and running as soon as possible.
But let‘s have a look into BMW plant Regensburg to see how Celonis is used there…<Video from plant Regensburg>
You can see: We have already achieved great first steps to make BMW processes better!
There is however a challenging road ahead of us.
Some of these challenges currently are:
Challenge #1: While transparency is great for the company overall, it is not always popular with everyone, since it very clearly and honestly shows all existing process issues and pain points. Getting rid of these problems can bring work and long discussions why these necessary improvements have not been adressed earlier.
Challenge #2: To see, if Process Mining is really of significant benefit for a certain process, it is important to quantify its business value. Naming potential business values for analytics however is not always easy and/or popular. In some business areas we therefore have to develop complex estimation methods together with the process experts.
Challenge #3: The big success of Process Mining at BMW also brings the challenge with it to scale our Process Mining team fast enough to meet all business needs and to support all rollouts. Since the topic is still very new and not very many experts for it are available on the job market, we are in competition with many companies the get the best employees. We therefore have to stay an attractive employer – because success is all about people!
Challenge #4: Doing process mining with so many different business areas and users means listening to our customers to be able to deliver them the service they really need. While some business units only need a quick, one time analysis others require complex, long term monitoring and optimisation possibilities. Some business users only need consulting and then want to work with Celonis and create dashboards themselves. Others however are not keen on building any analysis and need full implementation support from IT.
Challenge #5: The Process Mining world is very fast changing and we need to stay open minded. Celonis tries to bring Process topics even closer to the process users by introducing the Action Engine. Cloud possibilities, connections with Robotics Process Automation (RPA) and links to Machine Learning and Simulation Abilities are just some other examples of new possibilities ahead of us.
Challenge #6: Events like Celosphere are a great platform to exchange with many other users of Process Mining, but also with experts from Celonis and Celonis partner companies. Our 6th and final challenge therefore is to use this great plattform to talk to each other and to learn from each others experiences.Let us therefore all use this conference for this exchange and let us improve our processes!There is still a long and very exciting road ahead!