Case Study: Mazda halves five-year TCO and boosts performance 70% with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Mazda cuts costs 50% and boosts performance 70% with Oracle Cloud

Mazda, the Hiroshima‑based automaker that sells 1.5 million vehicles in 130 countries, faced a challenge managing roughly 240,000 service parts across decades of models. Its global Inventory Management (G‑IM) system ran on shared on‑premises servers, limiting processing speed for thousands of monthly order records and preventing frequent demand‑forecast runs—reducing forecast accuracy and risking interference with other critical systems.

Mazda migrated the G‑IM system to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, using Oracle Bare Metal Servers and Oracle GoldenGate in a hybrid setup without changing applications. After a three‑month proof of concept, Mazda cut five‑year total cost of ownership by 50% and achieved up to 70% better performance, allowing daily forecasts with finer regional and country parameters and materially improving inventory‑management accuracy.

Mazda

Masahiko Tamura

General Manager, Supply Chain Systems Department