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Our Global Automotive Practice

PwC's global automotive practice leverages its extensive experience in the industry to help companies solve complex business challenges with efficiency and quality.  As accounting and business advisors to many of the world's leading vehicle manufacturers and automotive suppliers, PwC has an insider's view of trends and developments driving the industry.

One of PwC's global automotive practice's key competitive advantages is Autofacts®, a team of automotive industry specialists dedicated to ongoing analysis of sector trends.  Autofacts provides our team of more than 4,600 automotive professionals and our clients with data and analysis to assess implications, make recommendations, and support decisions to compete in the global marketplace.

Whether expanding operations in China or seeking the advantages of transfer pricing expertise in the automotive industry, PwC can help you to achieve your objectives with a practical approach, deep resources, and industry knowledge that sets us apart from our competitors.

Co-maker is a leading European provider of mission critical enterprise software solutions for the automotive market.

Our solutions offer national and international companies active in the leasing, finance, rental, fleet management and other mobility sectors the ability to increase the cost effectiveness of their organisation, optimise their risk management, respond rapidly to market trends, and achieve their revenue growth targets.

For our Co-makers we create a place to be inspired, be creative, seek professional growth and satisfy the needs of our customers. With our solutions we anticipate their changing business environment.

BCA is Europe's largest vehicle-remarketing company, employing 2.300 staff in over 44 vehicle remarketing centres across 12 European countries. The annual sold volume is around 850.000 vehicles (passenger cars and LCV) sold at more than 14000 auctions per year with a value of over 3 billion Euros.

BCA's core activity is the selling of vehicles on behalf of corporate vendors, to used-car professionals. Selling is done both through physical and electronic vehicle remarketing channels. BCA also undertakes a number of related remarketing activities including logistics, storage, vehicle inspection, vehicle preparation and paperwork processing. These operational activities are performed on a cross border scale. One of BCA's core assets is the BCA buyer-base which is composed of franchised and independent new- and used-vehicle retailers. At the end and in the longer term, this will be reflected in the highest possible selling price of the used car vehicle.

MAPFRE WARRANTY is a trademark of MAPFRE ASISTENCIA, a market leader in warranty programmes and credit protection, such as PPI, GAP products and other specialty risks insurances for vehicles. MAPFRE WARRANTY has been working with its partners in the automotive industry for more than 25 years, helping them to boost their turnover and profit with its network of agents and dealers support service worldwide.

MAPFRE WARRANTY offers to its clients comprehensive and easy to integrate services, counts on a direct presence in 44 countries, over 1,550 corporate clients, operates worldwide and has 195 million people benefitting from its services.

Sword Apak has over 30 years’ experience of providing specialist financial systems to the asset-based finance sector.

Our integrated Wholesale Finance and Dealer Loan system (WFS) has been designed to significantly reduce the cost of running an institution’s floorplanning operation by automating its vehicle funding processes. Developed as a global solution, WFS can be implemented worldwide, across different accounting, legal and tax jurisdictions in multiple languages and currencies. WFS has been designed on the J2EE platform for fast deployment and uses SOA web services for easy integration with the finance provider’s business and technical infrastructure.

Key features of the core product include:

• Integrated floorplan finance and commercial loan administration with consolidated credit view
• Multi-company, multi-country and multi-currency operations
• Flexible financial product and plan structure for multi-asset funding
• Flexible credit line and mega dealer group structures (n-tier)
• Automated bill and collect with electronic payments (EFT) and flexible manual payment processing
• True thin-client web browser-based finance company, dealer, manufacturer, auction, sales force and auditor access with configurable portals
• Interface to hand-held audit applications
• Sophisticated stock location and vehicle transfer mechanism
• Automated workflow configurable for key business processes
• Comprehensive operational reporting suite and MI capability

Email: info@sword-apak.com

Tel: + 44 (0) 1454 871000

BenchMark Consulting International is a management consulting firm dedicated to the finance and leasing industry since 1988. BenchMark Consulting has operations in Americas, Europe (including separate UK office), Middle East and China.
BenchMark Consulting possesses an in-depth understanding of the market, the best practices and trends allowing to develop opportunities for its clients to become more competitive and to differentiate themselves. Focus is on improving the profitability of its financial services clients and their vendors by delivering tangible results in form of management decision making information and providing change management services.
BenchMark Consulting has a unique proprietary best practices knowledge base incorporating strategies, organizational structures, policies, business processes, technology support and information about the effect on the business success in the financial services industry. Additionally, the knowledge base consists of operational performance ratios for a wide range of financial services consumer and commercial lending segments. The data comes from 40 markets around the globe. The detail levels and comprehensiveness of assembled best practices and performance values are unparalleled.
BenchMark Consulting has worked successfully for over 150 clients in 39 countries, many of them being well-known global or pan-European players.

Linedata is a global solutions provider with 900 employees across the globe and 700 clients operating in 50 countries. Linedata is committed to the asset finance and lending community with two global front-to-back software solutions: Linedata Ekip 360 and Linedata Profinance. 150 lending and leasing companies, in 32 countries, chose Linedata Software platforms for managing the entire life cycle of their contracts, from the first customer contact to the end of the contract. Our solutions manage more than 8 million contracts on a daily basis.

NetSol Technologies is the leading global provider of leasing and finance software and services to the Asset, Auto, Insurance Premium and Wholesale finance markets.

With over 21 years experience, NetSol Technologies is at the forefront of enterprise software development as one of the few software providers with the Software Engineering Institute’s CMMi Level 5 rating.  The company embraces new technologies allowing them to continually build on its highly successful LeaseSoft product suite, the core of its product strategy through its offices in Europe, USA, South East Asia & Asia Pacific. 

The company’s industry knowledge and experience are widely acknowledged and integral to the advice it provides to its clients around the world.  Their ability to provide tailored software and services that streamline end-to-end processing, integrate the broker/vendor network, automate documentation and enhance customer services, singularly translate into measurable ROI for their customers.

Teleperformance, the worldwide leading provider of outstanding customer experience at every single opportunity, has been serving companies around the world, providing superior results in managing their customer care, technical support and debt collection operations. In 2010, the Teleperformance Group achieved €2.058 billion revenues (US$2.738 billion - average exchange rate at December 31, 2010: €1 = US$1.35).

The Group operates about 83,000 computerized workstations, with more than 128,000 employees across 263 contact centers in 50 countries and conducts programs in more than 66 different languages and dialects on behalf of major international companies operating in various industries.

The White Clarke Group is a world-leader in software solutions and consultancy to the automotive finance sector – Retail, Fleet, Wholesale. It is a worldwide organisation employing around 500 professionals, with offices in the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, Austria and Germany.

The company’s CALMS² end-to-end platform provides a flexible workflow approach that automates the entire business process from origination through contract to portfolio management. CALMS² helps finance companies around the globe to drive down costs, improve efficiencies and boost profits.

Tried, tested and proven in global organisations such as Ally Bank/GMAC, Ford Credit, FGA Capital, Volkswagen Financial Services, Toyota Financial Services, Mercedes-Benz Financial Services, Raiffeisen Leasing, Leaseplan, BAWAG PSK Leasing, John Deere Financial, Lombard Business Finance etc.

To find out more about CALMS² technology, please contact us:

Brendan Gleeson
Global Sales and Marketing Director
Email: bgleeson@whiteclarkegroup.com
Phone: +44 (0)1908 576605 (PA)

Banqsoft is a leading provider of mission critical financial software to companies providing vehicle, equipment and consumer financing. The company operates out of offices in Oslo, Stockholm, Helsinki, Warsaw and Gdansk.

The core business is software solutions for management of credit portfolios including leasing, fleet management and floor planning. Banqsoft strives to offer our customers the advantages of the latest technology available in the market in combination with the rich functionality achieved through a long partnership with several world leading financial service providers.

Genpact Limited (NYSE: G), a global leader in business process and technology management services, leverages the power of smarter processes, smarter analytics and smarter technology to help its clients drive intelligence across the enterprise.  Genpact’s Smart Enterprise Processes (SEPSM) framework, its unique science of process combined with deep domain expertise in multiple industry verticals, leads to superior business outcomes. Genpact’s Smart Decision Services enables clients to grow their business through targeted analytics, customer research, media monitoring, reengineering, and advanced risk management. Making technology more intelligent by embedding it with process and data insights, Genpact also offers a wide range of technology services.  Driven by a passion for process innovation and operational excellence built on its Lean and Six Sigma DNA and the legacy of serving GE for more than 14 years, the company’s 55,000+ professionals around the globe deliver services to its more than 600 clients from a network of 57 delivery centers across 16 countries supporting more than 25 languages. For more information, visit www.genpact.com.    Follow Genpact on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.