Services for the Automotive Industry: South Africa

The automotive industry is an important growth driver in South Africa, but it faces specific challenges because of the small domestic market and overseas competition.

The most pressing need for automotive manufacturers is for collaboration with suppliers and dealer networks to reduce costs, increase efficiency and ultimately provide better service to customers. This need is especially pressing for local manufacturers because the South African market is relatively small and exports are inhibited both by tariff protection and the strong rand. Another driver for performance improvement is the planned phasing out of government subsidies for automotive manufacturers.

The Gauteng Automotive Cluster, a Blue IQ project, is one of several that demonstrate this need. It is an aggregation of automotive assemblers, component manufacturers and material suppliers in the same location that together are responsible for some 40 percent of South Africa's automotive production. The project is designed to help them cooperate with each other, so strengthening the local industry's ability to compete globally.

High performance in the automotive industry means being able to innovate both design and business processes. Accenture has the skills and experience to help the industry achieve high performance and so become more globally competitive.

Accenture leverages global best practice effectively through its profound knowledge of local conditions to help South African automotive clients achieve high performance.

Understanding what lies behind high performance will help automotive companies succeed despite market conditions, creating both current and future business value. Accenture is a preferred partner in delivering innovation to drive change and enable high performance.

Our Automotive industry group works with auto manufacturers, suppliers, dealers, retailers and service providers. Professionals in this industry group help clients develop and implement solutions focused on customer service and retention, channel strategy and management and integrated supplier partnerships. We are particularly well placed to help local automotive manufacturers transform their business and manufacturing processes to increase competitive edge, and to strategise for the all-important export market.

Accenture also provides outsourcing and consulting services to leading automotive original equipment manufacturers and Tier One suppliers. We help our automotive clients with strategy; systems integration delivery, as well as owning, administering and managing critical business processes and services.

Related Research & Insights:

Explore how Accenture can help automotive manufacturers develop the neglected aftersales market in Accenture Aftersales Innovation Centre: Opportunities for High Performance in the Aftersales Market.

Accenture has a range of services which will deliver bottom-line benefits now:

• Services for the Automotive Industry: An overview of Accenture services specifically geared to helping automakers outperform.
  
  
• Outsourcing and Infrastructure Delivery Services for the Automotive Industry: Accenture has a total solution for automotive executives seeking to find alternative ways to handle non-core, but often critical, business functions and processes.