to 2020
Ford’s global Business Technology Renewal program for its Customer Service Division has seen the carmaker replace 30-year-old legacy systems and work practices with new, optimized processes running on a state-of-the-art integrated SAP Service Parts Management (SPM) platform. The carmaker now successfully runs all four components of the SAP SPM Solution worldwide: Service Parts Planning (SAP SPP), warehouse management (SAP EWM) and commercial and finance processes (SAP CRM and ERP). Westernacher Consulting has assisted Ford in this business transformation for almost 10 years with the implementation of SAP SPM throughout their European, North American and Asia Pacific markets.
Objectives
- Provide dealers with easy-to-use self-services
- Customer centric design
- Real-time availability check
- Backorder processing
- Full marketing integration
- Full finance and controlling integration
- Integrated document flow
Dieter Schönhofen, IT Supervisor at Ford Customer Service Division
Benefits
- Customer experience is much simpler
- Real–time transparency of entitlements
- Document flow is consistent and transparent
- Real–time transparency of cost
- Traceability of cost changes
- Automated booking of entitlement expirations
- CRM pricing and billing
- General ledger accounting and profitability analysis
- Claims and returns management
Highlights
- CRM Order Management with gATP check in a BOD for four markets
- Entitlement manager integration
- Integration of manual investigation workflows
- End-to-end integration and process flow
- Harmonization of complaint structure
- Automatic business rule framework integration
- Trade promotion management integration
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