Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India Pvt. Ltd.: Enabling better executive decision-making with a single source of truth
Explore Honda Motorcycle & Scooter’s journey with SAP
As one of the largest manufacturers of two-wheelers in India, Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India (HMSI) Pvt. Ltd. needed a better way to produce management reports. As a long-term SAP customer, HMSI decided to use SAP Datasphere and other SAP solutions to consolidate companywide data into a powerful management dashboard for near-real-time reporting.
| Industry | Region | Company Size |
| Automotive | Manesar, Haryana, India | 15,000 employees |
months to go live with a datasphere and digital cockpit.
months to go live with a purchasing-model costing solution.
CIO, Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India Pvt. Ltd.
Creating an innovative, efficient solution for data collection and reporting
Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India Pvt. Ltd. (HMSI) is the wholly owned subsidiary of Honda Motor Company, Japan – the world’s leading two-wheeler company. Commencing its Indian two-wheeler operations in May 2001, Honda has grown to become India’s second-largest two-wheeler company in the last two decades with over 60 million happy customers.
As a future-ready organization, HMSI has been at the forefront of innovation, quality, and customer satisfaction, consistently delivering a vast lineup of world-class products tailored to meet the diverse needs of its customers. The company has won more than 200 prestigious awards for manufacturing and product excellence.
The company recently transformed its operations in Manesar and consolidated its corporate functions to achieve greater efficiencies within the company’s verticals and across all teams. Productivity has improved enterprise-wide, and various new digital initiatives for daily operations are enhancing the work-life balance of the company’s employees.
One of HMSI’s digital initiatives was to find a better way to provide its management team with insights and intelligence for better decision-making. Within its manufacturing and retail operations, there was a large volume of enterprise-wide data that resided in various disparate sources. This made it difficult to manage and integrate the siloed data, and reporting had to be manually executed in Microsoft Excel spreadsheets and then summarized for management in Microsoft PowerPoint presentations. These processes were very time-consuming and error prone and, therefore, difficult to credibly rely on.
HMSI wanted to find a more efficient way to collect and analyze the data from each area of the company’s operations in a way that provided a high-level single source of truth. HMSI also wanted to create a digital cockpit to present the data to executive management so they could see in near-real time how the company was performing against its business-critical key performance indicators (KPIs).
CIO, Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India Pvt. Ltd.
Providing near-real-time visibility into business KPIs
To transform its management reporting, HMSI choose to implement the SAP Datasphere and SAP Analytics Cloud solutions and SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP).
The company now uses SAP Datasphere to harmonize data management, drive insightful analytics, and assist with intelligent planning. With SAP Analytics Cloud on SAP BTP, the company built the digital cockpit it envisioned with a reporting dashboard that could be customized and tailored to the needs of the people on the management team. Like a pilot’s cockpit, HMSI’s cockpit gives users insights into how the company is performing, the direction it is headed, and how key objectives are being achieved.
Through a visualization layer in SAP Analytics Cloud, HMSI can now provide decision-makers with near-real-time insights into its operations and related KPIs. The data driving the insights is consolidated data from the company’s solutions for ERP and HR from SAP, as well as other production, inventory, dispatching, customer experience, and sales systems.
Additionally, the company is taking advantage of SAP BTP’s planning capabilities to do model costing in its purchasing operations.
CIO, Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India Pvt. Ltd.
Achieving greater future-ready results with smarter management insights
HMSI’s new datasphere is a key part of its digital transformation, and now, with its digital cockpit, the company has deep visibility into the performance of the company against its KPIs. In addition to enterprise-wide access to the operational efficiency of its data across functions, the company can better manage inventory for its factories, which is creating greater efficiencies while saving time and money.
Managers have enhanced control over their departments and can make decisions in the moment based on near-real-time analytics. Customer service has also improved as the result of insights that were not previously available.
HMSI has just begun tapping into the full capabilities of SAP BTP, but it is already seeing successes in its purchasing department through the model costing, which is helping the company more efficiently forecast the costs of its manufacturing processes.
CIO, Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India Pvt. Ltd.
Preparing for continued success with further adoption of SAP solutions
HMSI plans on extending its datasphere capabilities to include more data intelligence with real-time data and a data digital boardroom, both of which will help improve decision-making for management.
With its recent success launching model costing in purchasing with SAP BTP, the company wants to start using the planning component of the platform for its entire budgeting process. In addition, HMSI intends to begin using AI for application development as well as to improve focused forecasting.