Gestamp Information Running Smoothly Due to QlikView

Technology Category

Analytics & Modeling - Data-as-a-Service

Applicable Industries

Automotive

Applicable Functions

Discrete Manufacturing
Procurement

Use Cases

Manufacturing System Automation
Supply Chain Visibility

Services

Data Science Services

The Challenge

Gestamp Automoción, an international group dealing in the development and manufacture of components and metal assemblies for motor vehicles, was facing a challenge with its data management. The company had a large amount of information, a large number of users, and disparate, international information coming from eight different enterprise resource planning systems (ERPs) across its production plants. The information wasn’t unified and there was no way to achieve this automatically with the legacy system. Reports were prepared using macros and in presentations or spreadsheets. Gestamp Automoción needed a complete, efficient reporting system. The company was looking for an application to complete its FULLSTEP GS purchasing platform and integrate information from that platform with data from the company’s various ERPs.

About The Customer

Gestamp Automoción in Spain is an international group dealing in the development and manufacture of components and metal assemblies for motor vehicles. Gestamp Automoción and Grupo Gonvarri, specialising in flat steel service centre activities since the end of the 1950s, constitute the two main lines of business of the Gestamp Corporation. Today Gestamp Automoción based in Abadino, Spain, has a presence in 18 countries, with 57 production plants, and 13 research and development centres employing a total of more than 13,500 people. Its principal customers are the major automotive industry manufacturers including companies such as Volkswagen, Renault-Nissan, Peugeot-Citroen, Daimler, GM, Ford, and Chrysler. Gestamp Automoción has invested in high calibre staff committed to providing its customers with products that ensure weight and pollution reduction in motor vehicles, together with safety improvements for both automobiles and passengers.

The Solution

Gestamp Automoción decided to implement QlikView to unify its information. The deployment began in 2007, starting with a scorecard for the purchasing department. Following its success, it was decided to deploy QlikView in other business units: the human resources department in 2008 to monitor travel expenses as well as telephone use. And in 2009, it was extended to the quality control department for incident control. QlikView Server was deployed, providing instant access to information from anywhere in the world for any authorised user. And the “zero footprint” and Windows client were selected to provide access for anyone in the company with only the need for occasional use of the system. The Multi-idioma (multi-language), MultiERP, and MultiDivisa (multi-currency) functions that Sand implemented in the QlikView scorecard was of great benefit to the company.

Operational Impact

Fast, easy access to a large amount of management information in an accessible, manageable way for a large number of users.
The agility of QlikView technology in integrating information in such a diverse, international environment, with eight different ERPs and an attached purchasing and negotiation system validated the choice of QlikView.
The Multi-idioma (multi-language), MultiERP, and MultiDivisa (multi-currency) functions that Sand implemented in the QlikView scorecard was of great benefit to the company.

Quantitative Benefit