BMW Group and Celonis strengthen their cooperation and accelerate Process Mining and Process Intelligence

The partnership between the two companies aims to enable new standards within the automotive industry and beyond. By combining our leadership and expertise in global innovation, the two companies aim to bring about significant progress in reform digitally. The BMW Group’s relationship with Celonis is characterized by the pioneering use of Process Intelligence Graph and the continuous development of AI-based innovations.

The main pillar of the BMW Group’s success, which began more than eight years ago with the adoption of the Mining Process, has been. establishment of a Mining Center of Excellence (CoE). This center, located within the main IT department, has brought together the company’s valuable expertise in the field of Mining, with the aim of driving the development and implementation of innovative solutions. The CoE, due to its focus and combined expertise, has played an important role in supporting the continuous evolution of the company’s processes, and contributing to the continuous improvement of the BMW Group’s operations.

Digitalization strategy with Celonis

So the big car company has chosen Celonis to increase its speed plan Of digital enhancement, to make found for all employees of the Group their own technology and allow them to analyze business processes and identify and eliminate inefficiencies. The main areas of cooperation include:

– continuous data-driven process improvement to increase efficiency, productivity and sustainability;

– the use of Celonis process Intelligence Graph for excessive optimization of processes;

– improvement of the user experience of the program to make it easier for users even for those with limited IT skills;

– continuous development of innovative solutions.

Innovation also in software development

The BMW Group Center of Excellence for Mining and the Celonis development team have strengthened their partnership to accelerate the joint development of innovations in the field of Process Intelligence. This includes optimization of cross-company processes through better supplier integration, for example by automatically transferring data through CatenaX, and the complete planning of the customer journey. Additionally, the partnership will focus on the integration of new AI technologies, such as information processing for production workers. This approach will increase operational transparency, allowing everyone involved in the process get any important information at any time and locationsuch as production or logistics.

«The BMW Group aims to be pioneers in the quality and efficiency of its business processes and this goal is particularly relevant during our current transformation, which is the most important in the history of the BMW Group, as it embraces electronic capabilities, digitalization and circulation. Continuous analysis and improvement of our end-to-end processes – which we implement thanks to Celonis – they are important factors to increase productivity, reduce the use of resources and make supply chains more stable,” he says. Alexander Buresch, i.e. BMW Group. «The ease of use of the software, thanks to the integration of Artificial Intelligence, gives us new opportunities to make the Process of Mining available to a large number of users within the company, and thus to fully use the potential of this technology» .

“Our long-term partnership with the BMW Group represents a combined success story and we are excited to continue to strengthen our strategic partnership,” he says. Bastian Nominacher, co-founder and co-CEO of Celonis. «BMW is recognized as a pioneer in the adoption of new technologies: the company has adopted Process Mining since 2016 and also uses our recently introduced Intelligence Graph to get a complete overview of the entire supply chain, from vehicle design to. delivery to customers, to after-sales service. Our platform provides companies like the BMW Group with unprecedented process analysis, making it an important decision-making tool to implement targeted actions, create added value quickly and improve overall efficiency.”