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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.

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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​
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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​
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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​
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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​
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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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