Wins Global Agreement with PSA Peugeot Citroen 11 /02 /

incadea Germany, a wholly-owned subsidiary of incadea plc - a leading provider of software solutions and services to the global automotive retail industry, today announces that it has won a significant collaboration agreement with the car manufacturer PSA PEUGEOT CITROËN, which appoints incadea as a global DMS software vendor to cover Peugeot and Citroën Automobiles networks.

Under this agreement, incadea will develop a full integration layer based on its next generation Dealer Management Solution (DMS) incadea.myengine. Designed to meet the needs of today's modern automotive businesses and based on the latest Microsoft Dynamics platform, incadea.myengine is a comprehensive, flexible and role tailored DMS solution allowing car manufactures, dealerships and importers to increase business agility and streamline key business processes. It is expected that incadea.myengine will enable PSA PEUGEOT CITROËN to achieve accurate and centralized visibility of key dealership processes while improving customer service and increasing customer satisfaction and dealer profitability. With the state of the art business intelligence and reporting capabilities included in the solution, PSA PEUGEOT CITROËN and dealerships will be able to monitor and control instantly vehicle sales, parts management, service management as well as financial reporting. The project is focusing on 12 European countries with possible extension across the world.

Phillipe Uny, PSA PEUGEOT CITROËN Director Information System for Sales and Marketing stated: PSA PEUGEOT CITROËN has decided to collaborate with incadea and appoint incadea.myengine as a global DMS solution to cover Peugeot and Citroën Automobiles networks methods and business processes as well as integration to PSA Central Systems that supports these methods. PSA seeks to provide for its Automobiles Peugeot and Automobiles Citroën networks, the best possible complementarity between the DMS and its in-house information systems for our dealers around the world, with 2 stakes: satisfy our clients and maximize the dealers' profitability. Our project is focusing on 12 European countries with about 2000+ dealer sites and about 30000+ DMS users.

Commenting on this new win, Patrick Katenkamp, COO of incadea group , stated Future success of automotive retailers will lay in their ability to create consistent consumer experiences throughout the whole sales cycle with more focus on aftersales than dealers used to have in the past. A comprehensive dealer management system will be the foundation for creating consistent processes that will meet customers' needs and maximize dealer profits.

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