Multinational automotive distributor accelerates its global expansion with support from bit2bit Americas

A multinational automotive distributor, in collaboration with bit2bit Americas, has implemented Atlassian Cloud to centralize project management and enhance visibility and efficiency across its global operations. This initiative has accelerated its digital transformation and optimized resource utilization.

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This distributor is one of the leading automotive trading groups, offering a high distribution capacity for premium, luxury, and commercial vehicle brands in 36 countries. With operations on five continents, it faced the challenge of effectively investing in digital analytics and data to provide better value to its partners, customers, and local teams. This distributor notes that its team receives up to 500 IT initiative requests annually, making it essential to track demand to deliver projects efficiently. The tools they were using did not provide the real visibility needed to accelerate their analytical capabilities and ensure that all projects had the appropriate resources.

To overcome these challenges, the multinational automotive distributor decided to transform its portfolio and project management processes with bit2bit Americas. In alignment with industry best practices, the implementation was executed on the Atlassian Cloud platform, using Jira, eazyBI, and Tempo as the management platform and Confluence as the knowledge base. This approach facilitated knowledge sharing between regions and provided visibility and connectivity across portfolios, projects, and resources. The centralized platform enabled the distributor, which manages over 500 initiatives in 36 countries, to launch projects remotely, saving time and reducing duplicated activities.

Why bit2bit Americas?

This company chose bit2bit Americas for this implementation based on its proven experience as an Atlassian Platinum Enterprise Solution Partner, which ensured expert integration of Atlassian solutions. bit2bit Americas provided the visibility and efficiency needed to coordinate projects at both global and regional levels, optimizing resources and improving planning. Their approach allowed the distributor to undergo a significant cultural shift and effective standardization with Jira and Confluence, facilitating smoother collaboration and accelerated value delivery across the organization

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