Case Study
Interim CIO at international Automotive supplier
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Tier-1 automotive supplier
Support for SAP S/4 implementation and development of a strategy for the entire application landscape following the spin-off of the automotive division as an independent company.
Company Details
- Tier 1 Supplier Automotive. Development and production of innovative, design-defining and functional products for automobiles: exterior systems, bumper systems and polymer functional systems
SE & Co. KG, approx. €1.2b turnover, approx. 7,000 employees, 25 locations (production, assembly, logistics, sales) in 9 countries
Situation and Challenge
- Spin-off of the Automotive division as an independent company, followed by conception of the IT target organization for the Automotive company
- Heterogeneous system landscape with a high proportion of in-house developments, ongoing implementation of SAP S/4, IT services (software, platforms, infrastructure) in local/central group units, tight budgets and resources, non-transparent IT project portfolio
Objective and Tasks
- As interim CIO of the outsourced automotive company (reporting to the CFO):
Design, implementation and disciplinary leadership of the IT organization (change and people management) - Development of a service-oriented stakeholder management system
- Support of SAP S/4 implementation as well as strategy development for the entire application landscape
- Participation in the further development of Business Process Management
- Participation in the recruitment of the CIO successor and his onboarding
Measures and Approach
- Inventory, Design Target Organization
- Participation in the definition of process house, roles, committees and framework formulation as a member of the BPM board
- Presentation of the target IT system landscape including organizational and technical measures
- Realignment of IT project portfolios and IT roadmap according to current profitability and risk aspects
Results and Achievements
- IT service orientation has been significantly improved
- The current state of the IT system landscape is transparent. Initial stabilization measures show effect
- Realization of the IT target organization
- Training of the successor
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