​MANN+HUMMEL is provided with data at regular intervals from both manual and automated sources to assist them in controlling activities using key performance indicators (KPI’s). Due to the need to periodically review, adapt and extend the KPI’s the existing report solution no longer addressed the company’s diverse requirements or fulfilled the needs of the Group Controlling department.  Above all, the existing application was extremely complex and required a great deal of maintenance. MANN+HUMMEL decided on the need for a more simple, effective and efficient process. 

​When choosing the system, the primary solution was to generate KPI’s automatically for global and controlling activities. This enabled the specialist department to define the calculation formulas and attributes of the KPI’s using a web-based tool of similar format to Excel which are subsequently read using reporting tools. The result meant that each individual KPI is automatically generated in the data model before the data is prepared and made available to all end users in clear, interactive reports, updated on a daily basis.

​The Group Controlling departments are better able to manage the administration of the KPI’s and the maintenance and complexity of the system have been significantly reduced. The resultant effect has been a guarantee in unambiguous results and a decrease in the response times in the KPI reporting system leading to a high level of acceptance amongst the end users. The system also provides the option of subsequent expansions at a minimum cost lowering costs overall and increasing efficiency and effectiveness.