Nissan Europe
Nissan Europe is an international operation with a logistics partner network that encompasses western and eastern Europe. The company employs approximately 12,000 people in its European design, research and development, manufacturing, logistics, and sales and marketing operations.
The Challenge
Nissan Europe is responsible for ensuring vehicles are delivered on time to the customer via each dealer across Europe. The company wanted to optimize its supply chain process with partners in Europe and provide direct access to Nissan dealers to order and update inventory – all while leveraging existing data and logic from Nissan back-end systems.
The Solution
Software AG helped evolve a mainframe environment into a state-of-the-art Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)-based supply chain. This was done via a cost-effective, multi-phase modernization process. A data exchange solution provides online vehicle ordering and inventory availability that’s automatically routed to integrated back-end systems for processing and delivery. Existing functionality was made available to trusted external partners via a secure, scalable and standards-based interface.
The Benefits
- Critical business information provided in real-time.
- Improved vehicle pipeline forecasting.
- Accelerated formation of productive commercial partnerships.
- Enhanced development agility. Faster response time and better service.
- Increased customer satisfaction.
- Contributed to an overall vehicle inventory reduction of almost 35 percent within three years.
Customer Statement
“We spend less time on the mechanics of integration and can remain more focused on business requirements.”
Steve Guss, Manager Systems Development - Nissan Europe
