While automotive companies are focusing on continuously developing and enhancing comprehensive supply chain visibility mechanisms, cost management practices are fast becoming the top priority, as enterprises get globally scattered.

The Wipro Cost Lifecycle Engineering practice offers comprehensive cost management solutions across the product lifecycle.

The global automotive industry is currently facing immense challenges to deliver vehicles "Better", "Faster" and "Cheaper". Accelerated new model launches and shrinking product lifecycles have severely disturbed amortization plans to recover new vehicle development costs which poses an immediate need for the optimization of the product development process. As product development testing plays an important role in the development cycle and constitutes significant NPI (New Product Introduction) time frame, it becomes a crucial component to be considered while streamlining the NPI process.

Due to the growing competition and rapid introduction of new vehicles, the customer is benefitted with increased vehicles options to choose from. In order to meet customer choices and preferences, automotive organizations are following a Build to Order approach to ensure that the customer gets their preferred vehicle configuration.

Wipro has developed a solution accelerator for the automotive industry - "Freeway" - enabling standards-based B2B integration between the Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and Dealer Management Systems (DMSs). The Freeway solution helps you to streamline your business operations and IT processes.

It is an understatement that the global automotive industry is going through unprecedented turmoil. The industry has found its most recent expression in a tightened credit market and declining consumer confidence which combine to stifle demand for new vehicles. In addition, the industry is experiencing stagnant top lines and shrinking bottom lines. In this scenario, one of the most important and imperative tasks for OEMs is to decipher and depict consumer behavior and expectations regarding the products and services so that they can retain their customers longer.

Cost of Warranty is a significant area of concern for the global auto industry. Automotive organizations are focusing on the development of an enterprise quality improvement solution that integrates failure related data from multiple inputs, apart from warranty claims, and offers analytical capabilities for structured and unstructured data.

Wipro automates plants that require system integration across technologies to help streamline their processes and operations in the automotive sector. Our services to these automotive plants includes..

Billions could be saved by the global automotive industry by monitoring greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from ICE vehicles, by monitoring energy consumption patterns from hybrids/EVs and through conscious improvement of driving habits. Innovative solutions in these areas could be leveraged across various sectors of the society to reinforce a greener road transport sector.