Case Study: Global Microcontroller Manufacturer achieves faster financial reporting, integrated planning and $10M annual savings with Teradata

Global Microcontroller Manufacturer Finance and Performance Management in Action

Global Microcontroller Manufacturer (GMM), a $4.5B, 20,000-employee maker of microcontroller technology, faced fragmented legacy systems and scattered data after a corporate spin-off. Finance led the push for modernization—coordinating a global SAP ERP rollout and advocating an enterprise data warehouse to replace inconsistent, siloed reporting and give end users faster, trusted access to information.

GMM implemented an Enterprise Business Intelligence platform (Teradata EDW integrated with SAP, Oracle Hyperion and IBM DataStage) as a single source of truth. The new architecture delivered daily refreshed views, cut reporting from days to hours, enabled driver-based planning and pricing analytics, improved manufacturing costing, and tightened cash-forecast accuracy to within 2–3% (a 75% improvement); finance now does more analysis with 30% fewer staff, equivalent to roughly $10M in annual value.