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32    Automotive Lighting  Bernhard Winkler automotiveIT 2012 processes in Brazil France or India or the company headquarters and a research and development department with sever al hundred engineers here in Reutlingen Germany How many IT employees handle the daily operational issues I work with approximately 80 employees worldwide Compared to the entire workforce of about 14 000 employees that may seem to be a very manageable size But it exactly reflects our attitude as we move ahead Effi ciency and flexibility play a very big role in corporate IT at Automotive Lighting and Magneti Marelli We are used to reinforcing the capacities of our lean regular staff when necessary with our external partners who have worked with us for a long time How much can you increase your division s strength this way You can assume that our IT department s can respond quickly whenever there are changes to business requirements The right relationship between business and IT must be maintained in every situati on Over the last few years we have gone through a disciplined cost management program very successfully with the result that our IT budget is the benchmark in the auto industry Our costs are below the in dustry average and we expect them to re main there Are you ready to accept declines in quality in exchange On the contrary We have oriented oursel ves to added value Our declared goal is to be as close as possible to the departments and to exhaust all the opportunities to use information technology We want to further increase the quality of our business processes with our systems and solutions Every pro ject that we support is expected to deliver clear added value to the business It is our job to provide a dynamic contribution to Automotive Lighting s business success But don t you need greater vertical integration to do this No We give careful consideration to who can best handle an issue This hybrid model has always worked well for us For exam ple we operate parts of our infrastructure ourselves here at our site in Reutlingen Germany Other central computers are at our parent company Magneti Marelli in Italy and are managed from there This ap proach to dealing with the SAP system is an outstanding example of the synergy effects within Magneti Marelli We have rolled out the existing SAP template with our own resources in extremely different countries and product lines over the last six years We have also been taking advantage of the op portunity to outsource selected computing center services It all comes down to the right mix