Product Profitability Project for ŠKODA AUTO a.s.

Case Study

The project was part of another company initiative of the Integrated Planning Platform that has the goal of optimising ŠKODA AUTO’s processes and supporting IT solutions for strategic, operational, and financial planning activities.

PwC’s approach

The main goal of the product profitability project was to replace the manual or semi-automated calculation of product profitability based on MS Excel files, which had already reached it limit, with an automated product profitability calculation to make related processes more robust and efficient, outputs traceable and repeatable.

Project deliverables

Following phases of the project can be identified:

Implementation of the automated profitability calculation of Base Projects
Integration with other tools from the Integrated Planning Platform
Continued development of other features / reports and post-implementation services

What are the benefits?

ensures standardised and auditable transfer of input data
features touchpoints to all relevant interfaces
supports continuous calculation of the product profit and loss statement (PER) and provides analysis of the results
ensures the possibility of processing and saving calculations in greater detail
provides a central storage possibility of continuous calculations and data inputs with exact versioning
allows for simulation of various scenarios and alternatives
ensures data transfer from/to other application from the planning platform