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Modernize automotive IT for what comes next

Modernize the applications, data, and workflows that connect production, inventory, supply chain, and finance—while keeping automotive operations moving.

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OVERVIEW

Modernize around the realities of automotive IT

Automotive IT leaders rarely modernize one application in isolation. Manufacturing execution, materials planning, supplier data exchange, logistics, contracts, and finance depend on shared data and interconnected workflows built up over years. Modernization needs to improve these systems while protecting the processes that keep the business moving.

Production continuity

Plant operations depend on applications and workflows that need to remain available and reliable, even as the underlying technology evolves.

Connected supply chains

Supplier, logistics, order, and partner workflows rely on data moving reliably across complex automotive ecosystems.

Inventory and planning

Inventory accuracy and planning confidence depend on trusted data flowing across plants, warehouses, ERP applications, and reporting environments.

Proven business logic

Automotive applications can contain decades of tested business behavior supporting production, planning, supplier, and finance workflows.

Financial control

Finance, lending, contract, servicing, and reporting systems need to remain consistent, auditable, and available through modernization.

Interconnected systems

A change in one application can affect production schedules, inventory accuracy, supplier commitments, contracts, or financial reporting.

The outcomes automotive IT teams are prioritizing

When asked which outcomes they’re prioritizing in modernization efforts, automotive IT teams highlighted the following initiatives:

62 %

real-time visibility and decision-making

46 %

supply chain resilience

44 %

lower operational costs

The Race to Modernization: How Automotive Leaders Are Modernizing

A UserEvidence survey of automotive IT leaders across the US and EMEA explores what's driving modernization, where legacy systems create constraints, and how organizations are progressing across critical systems.

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KEY PRIORITIES

Address the automotive IT priorities that matter most

Automotive IT leaders rarely modernize one application in isolation. Manufacturing execution, materials planning, supplier data exchange, logistics, contracts, and finance depend on shared data and interconnected workflows built up over years. Modernization needs to improve these systems while protecting the processes that keep the business moving.

Modernize automotive applications without disrupting operations

Automotive applications often support critical manufacturing, inventory, supply chain, and finance processes, making modernization more complicated than simply replacing an aging technology. The challenge is to improve the technology while preserving the business behavior and operational outcomes those applications support.

 

What application modernization needs to account for

Protect plant operations

Modernize manufacturing applications while preserving the business logic and integrations that support production.

Preserve planning logic

Keep inventory, materials, and planning workflows consistent as applications and infrastructure evolve.

Protect supplier commitments

Maintain the application and integration behavior behind supplier, order, logistics, and partner workflows.

Preserve financial controls

Modernize finance and lending applications without compromising business rules, auditability, or reporting.

Modernize development

Give teams more current development, testing, deployment, and runtime options without immediately replacing proven application logic.

Maintain application connections

Preserve the integrations and data flows that connect manufacturing, supply chain, inventory, finance, and other critical applications as systems evolve.

 

How Rocket Software can help

Rocket Enterprise Suite helps automotive IT leaders modernize COBOL and PL/I applications while preserving proven application behavior, choosing the modernization path that fits each workload, and validating outcomes before expanding change.

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Increase trusted access to automotive data

Production, inventory, supplier, customer, contract, and financial decisions depend on data spread across legacy and modern environments. The challenge is improving access to trusted information without disrupting the systems and workflows that depend on it.

 

What modern data access needs to support

Connect production data

Improve access to the data supporting manufacturing, quality, scheduling, and operational decisions.

Improve inventory visibility

Connect inventory, warehouse, plant, and planning data to support more confident decisions.

Unify supplier information

Make supplier, logistics, and operational data more accessible across connected environments.

Protect financial data

Increase access to customer, contract, and financial information while maintaining control.

 

How Rocket Software can help

Rocket Data Modernization helps automotive organizations modernize and unlock trusted data across production, inventory, supplier, customer, contract, and financial environments.

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Orchestrate automotive operations across environments

Automotive operations depend on batch processing, reporting, planning cycles, production workflows, supplier exchanges, and finance processes running in the right sequence. As environments become more distributed, coordinating those dependencies becomes increasingly important.

 

What workflow automation needs to coordinate

Coordinate production workflows

Keep production, reporting, and batch processes running in the right sequence.

Automate planning cycles

Orchestrate recurring inventory, materials, and planning processes across applications.

Connect supply chain workflows

Coordinate supplier, logistics, order, and cross-platform processes.

Keep finance moving

Automate finance, reporting, and servicing workflows across environments.

 

How Rocket Software can help

Rocket Workload Automation helps automotive organizations design, visualize, orchestrate, and automate business workflows across platforms and applications from a centralized location.

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Securely exchange automotive files and data

Automotive ecosystems depend on constant movement of supplier, partner, design, logistics, and operational files. IT teams need to make those exchanges secure, traceable, and reliable without adding friction to connected business processes.

 

What secure file exchange needs to enable

Connect suppliers and partners

Support reliable file and data exchange across complex partner ecosystems.

Protect design data

Securely move CAD and product design information between automotive organizations, suppliers, and partners.

Track data movement

Maintain visibility and audibility as information moves between mainframe and distributed platforms.

Simplify file transfer

Consolidate file transfer mechanisms while supporting the platforms and workflows automotive operations depend on.

 

How Rocket Software can help

Rocket TRUexchange, Rocket TRUfusion Enterprise, and Rocket Outbound Enterprise help organizations securely exchange files and data with customers, suppliers, partners, and other business systems.

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Modernize automotive content-driven processes

Contracts, servicing records, reports, customer communications, and other critical content support automotive finance and operational workflows. Modernization needs to improve how this information is created, managed, accessed, and governed across legacy and modern environments.

 

What content modernization needs to address

Manage critical records

Keep customer, contract, servicing, and reporting information accessible and governed.

Streamline document workflows

Automate document-heavy finance, lending, servicing, and compliance processes.

Connect content and applications

Make critical information available across the systems and workflows that depend on it.

Maintain control

Govern business-critical content across legacy, distributed, and modern repositories.

 

How Rocket Software can help

Rocket Content Automation and Rocket ContentEdge help organizations modernize information-rich business processes and unify and govern critical business content across mainframe, distributed, and cloud environments.

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PROVEN EXPERIENCE

Automotive IT expertise built around real-world challenges

Automotive modernization requires more than technology expertise. It requires an understanding of the operational dependencies between production, planning, supply chain, inventory, finance, and the applications supporting them. Rocket Software brings experience helping organizations modernize critical applications and workflows while protecting the business outcomes they depend on.

As we embarked on a hybrid cloud migration, it was critical for us to ensure no content was lost in the process. Working with Rocket Software gave us the continuity, experience, and tools to ensure there were little to no disruptions every step of the way.

Tom Fox Manager, Infrastruktur und Betrieb Kawasaki Motors Corp., U.S.A.

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