Case Study: BorgWarner achieves real-time global supply-chain visibility, faster supplier reporting and $8M in savings with Qlik

BorgWarner - Customer Case Study

BorgWarner, a global automotive supplier, relied on a manual, spreadsheet-based process to report on total spend, supplier performance, and supply-chain risk, which took days per supplier. That approach left the company vulnerable during disruptions—when Japanese suppliers were hit by the 2011 tsunami, BorgWarner had to scramble to determine impacts on parts, products, and customer orders.

By deploying the Qlik platform with geo-analytics, BorgWarner now uses interactive dashboards to analyze supplier spend, quality (e.g., complaints per million parts), and risk, and to run quick what-if scenarios to see which parts and customers are affected by global events. Reporting time dropped from days to seconds, supply-chain visibility and planning improved significantly, and the initiative identified over $8 million in savings.

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