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AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS

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THE RISE OF AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOTS

At the core of Reply’s strength matrix stands the integration of systems and the development and training of ML algorithms that can be deployed to the robots, to the Edge Cloud or to the central cloud and that give robots the autonomy needed to improve businesses.

Autonomous Mobile Robots

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Bringing AI and Cloud on the move

Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMR) are the next evolutionary step for Automated Guided Vehicles (AGV) and are able to move independently from a central infrastructure. Reply and Microsoft have developed a use case for vehicle damage inspection, fully automating the process using Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cloud Computing and state-of-the-art Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR) technology.

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Chatbots

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Chatbot for Automotive

Reply supports customers in the automotive industry by implementing ChatBot applications for Car Configurators, After Sales Services and Customer Interaction Center Support.

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Chatbots

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CIC Chatbot

Cluster Reply supports automotive companies in enhancing the customer service experience by the development of chatbot solutions that are connected with CRM and CIC systems and can seamlessly interact with call center agents. Automotive companies benefit from chatbots as cost-effective way to reduce call center times, increase customer satisfaction and create upselling potential.

01.02.2017 / Bochum

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Car Symposium 2017

Reply will participate in the 17th International CAR Symposium on 1 February 2017. The 1,200 top managers and decision-makers attending the symposium have made it a top-tier meeting place in the automotive industry.​

29.06.2016 - 30.06.2016 / Düsseldorf

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ConCarExpo

Reply participates in the ConCarExpo taking place in Düsseldorf, 29-30 June 2016. The ConCarExpo is the first international trade fair on Connected Car and Mobility.

11.02.2016 / Bochum

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16th International CAR Symposium

Cluster Reply and Riverland Reply attend the 16th International CAR Symposium in Bochum, taking place on 11th February 2016.

10.11.2015 - 11.11.2015 / Rome

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Auto CRM & Marketing Excellence 2015

Reply takes part in the fiftheen edition of Auto CRM & Marketing Excellence which takes place in Rome from 10th to 11th November 2015.

Automotive Cybersecurity

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The automotive industry on the Cyber (Security) curve

In a more than ever connected world, the automotive industry is following the fast pace of the new technology. Cars are smarter but also more subject to cybercrime / cyber vandalism with a possible impact on the physical security of people. Spike Reply can help you.​

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10.03.2016 / Digital Experience

News & Communication

Emotion and Innovation: Alfa Romeo selects Reply as 2016 Partner

Reply consolidates its relationship with the FCA Group, securing a technological, strategic and creative partnership with Alfa Romeo EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa), and confirms its position in the Digital Experience global market with the creation of an International Team, coordinated by Associate Partner Niccolò Magnani and Reply Creative Director Francesco Milanesio.

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04.02.2015 / Bochum

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Car Symposium 2015

Reply will be present as an exhibitor at the Car Symposium 2015. The international automotive congress, which has established itself as a high-calibre meeting place for the automotive industry, will take place on 4 February 2015 in Bochum’s RuhrCongress centre.

Digital Asset Management

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P&S CHANNEL: THE CNH INDUSTRIAL PARTS & SERVICE DIVISION INTERNAL-COMMUNICATION HUB

For the Parts & Service division at CNH Industrial, Reply has created P&S Channel, an internal-communications initiative developed with the contribution of two Reply mainstays, in TamTamy™ and Discovery Reply Multimedia™, supplied in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) guise.

Automotive

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Put your Data at Work: Do cars dream of Big Data?

Big Data presents a huge opportunity for automotive companies to meet the demands of their more challenging and educated customers. Major firms have recognised the importance of data along the entire value chain.

SaaS

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IVECO Defence Vehicles

Reply supports IVECO Defence Vehicles (IVECO DV), market leading manufacturer of defence and civil protection vehicles (trucks, armoured vehicles, protected and multipurpose vehicles), with its logistics management. A SideUp Reply™ solution has been introduced for the management of the military replacement parts warehouse in Bolzano, replacing the custom system previously used.

Public Sector and Automotive

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Reti Amiche on the Job “Worker-Friendly Networks on the Job”

With the signing of the Memorandum of Intent with the Ministry of Public Administration, FIAT now offers its employees the opportunity to use services offered by the Piemonte Region and the City of Turin through the company’s own network, with the solution “Reti Amiche on the Job” (“Worker-Friendly Networks on the Job”), developed in collaboration with Cluster Reply.

Smart Glasses

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Magneti Marelli together with Reply take the Motor Show by storm with "Smart Glasses"

An innovative application has been combined with a sustainable paper design that, in a few simple steps, becomes a pair of 3D glasses. This is the immersive brand experience created by Bitmama and Forge Reply in cooperation with Magneti Marelli.

Magneti Marelli together with Reply take the Motor Show by storm with

Storytelling

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Sharing strategy through the power of storytelling

Michelin’s UK MD needed to bring the three-year strategy to life in such a way that his people could be inspired to work together. Reply delivered a four-phased approach as a solution, combining behavioural analysis techniques with organisation strategy intervention and a tried and tested communication approach to storytelling using ‘The Big Picture’.

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Digital Strategy

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Alfa Romeo MiTo 'Live Rock'

Powered by a modern restyling and fresh infotainment content, Alfa Romeo MiTo is back with a new and compelling campaign and a new slogan: ‘VIVI ROCK’ (cf. live like a rock star). Bitmama, the digital communication company set up as a joint venture between Armando Testa group and Reply group, has conceived an innovative communication venture to support the ATL effort. It is among the first on the digital scene to unite the most popular social network, Facebook, and the music player of the moment, Spotify.

Product Manufacturing System

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PMS. MES Project

PMS (Product Manufacturing System), a system that can be classified into the MES (Manufacturing Execution System) area, allows supervision, control and Management of manufacturing activities and field systems.

Automotive

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Activity Tracking for increased business efficiency

Activity Tracking is the application designed by Fiat Group Automobiles (FGA) and developed by Cluster Reply in order to manage events tracking mostly concerning requests for evolutive, corrective and support activities between the IT departments and the Client and/or the Help Desk teams managed by third parties.

26.02.2014

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Manufacturing Innovation Summit 2014

Cluster Reply attends the Manufacturing Innovation Summit in Stuttgart on February 26, 2014. The Manufacturing Innovation Summit 2014 focuses on the interaction of customers of the high-tech, automobile and manufacturing industry.

24.09.2013 - 26.09.2013

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CRM Expo 2013

Cluster Reply and Syskoplan Reply took part in the CRM Expo 2013, the leading Trade Fair for Customer Relationship Management, that was held in Stuttgart from 24 to 26 September 2013.

Supplier Relationship Management

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SAP SRM: Piaggio Group's choice

Piaggio & C. S.p.A. implemented the SAP ERP platform for the management of the main business processes. The solution identified by the Piaggio Group together with Syskoplan Reply is the SAP SRM platform.

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Television meets Internet

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Lancia InteracTV, the first Italian case of second screen communication

The App that rewards those who watch TV. The App 'Lancia InteracTV' combines the 'Digital Product Placement' with the interactive features offered by new technologies revolutionizing in one fell swoop both the concept of television viewing that the receipt of the message.

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29.01.2013 - 30.01.2013

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13th International CAR-Symposium

Reply Deutschland joined the 13th International CAR-Symposium which took place from 29 to 30 January 2013 in Bochum. The CAR - Center Automotive Research’s 13th international symposium has already been acknowledged as a high-ranking branch meeting in the automotive industry.

Mobile for Automotive

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Lancia Mobile project

A site that speaks 16 languages at the same time and is accessible by all portable devices on the market? A portal that is global and also hyper-local? Today it exists. Its name is Lancia Mobile, and it confirms the desire for innovation that permeates every move of the Turinese brand. Bitmama has created the first corporate portal specially designed for the fruition on mobile devices, and not a simple “make-up” of the desktop version. The Lancia Mobile project is supported by the GAIA Reply™ platform.

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Into the Black(&Red) with Lancia Ypsilon

“Non Monotonous vs. Monotonous”. It’s the leit motiv of the communication strategy that Bitmama has created for the presentation of Lancia Ypsilon Black&Red.

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Lancia New Thema

Sometimes they come back. And that’s good. Lancia New Thema and Lancia New Voyager have fixed an appointment in their websites to present their new soul, a synthesis of the best of two industrial cultures: elegance and strength, ecology and power, style and functionality.

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Lancia Chrysler Experience

Lancia and Chrysler are online together. A site created by Bitmama to tell of the merger of two big companies and their industrial project.

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Blue&Me™ Portal

Blue&Me™ is online with www.blueandme.net, a multibrand portal (Fiat, Alfa and Lancia) created by Bitmama.​

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The new Lancia portal

Bitmama presents the new Lancia institutional website, for a virtual experience full of innovations. The new Lancia engine designed for the web is born, a real search engine in Google style.

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iFMS Starter Kit for SAP RE-FX

The graphic SAP complementary system iFMS optimizes the processing of SAP-based business processes in infrastructure, technical and commercial facility management and expands SAP’s range of functions through supplementary iFMS software modules. To make getting started with CAD integration as easy as possible for you, we are offering you an “iFMS starter kit for SAP RE-FX“. This starter kit lets you optimise the data management quality and the visualisation of the architectural view by means of a CAD/SAP system integration. Also benefit from cost savings!

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iFMS Starter Kit for SAP PM/CS

The graphical SAP complementary system iFMS optimises the processing of SAP-based business processes in infrastructure, technical and commercial facility management and expands SAP’s range of functions through supplementary iFMS software modules. To facilitate the introduction to infrastructural facility management, we offer an iFMS Starter Kit for SAP PM/CS. The Starter Kit allows you to optimise the quality of your area and occupation management and achieve cost advantages.

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Key management with iFMS and SAP

iFMS is a graphical complementary system for SAP RE-FX and SAP PM/CS. iFMS optimizes the execution of SAP-based business processes in infrastructural, technical and commercial Facility Management and expands the range of functions of SAP through complementary iFMS software modules. Together, iFMS and SAP form a holistic CAFM with a high level of system integration. The key management module supports companies in managing locking systems as well as the issue and return of keys to employees, students and third parties.

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Cleaning Management with iFMS and SAP

iFMS is a graphical complementary system for SAP RE-FX and SAP PM/CS. iFMS optimizes the execution of SAP-based business processes in infrastructural, technical and commercial Facility Management and expands the range of functions of SAP through complementary iFMS software modules. Together, iFMS and SAP form a holistic CAFM with a high level of system integration. The cleaning management module supports companies in tendering, realisation and auditing cleaning services.

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Graphical variant planning with iFMS and SAP

The graphic SAP complementary system iFMS optimises the processing of SAP-based business processes in infrastructure, technical and commercial facility management and expands SAP’s range of functions through supplementary iFMS software modules. The ’graphical variant planning’ module allows you to plan and execute area and occupancy optimisation, as well as workplace equipment and transfers.

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Presentation and marketing plan with iFMS and SAP

iFMS is a graphical complementary system for SAP RE-FX and SAP PM/CS. iFMS optimizes the execution of SAP-based business processes in infrastructural, technical and commercial facility management and expands the range of functions of SAP through complementary iFMS software modules. Together, iFMS and SAP form a holistic CAFM with a high level of system integration. The “Presentation and Marketing Plan” module supports companies with the automatic creation of plans through the graphic display of CAD data in combination with key figures, diagrams and annotations.

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Syskoplan Reply Center Facility Management: Facility Management with iFMS and SAP

Our customers benefit from excellent business processes with a high ROI and solutions that offer secure investments.

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NOAH: Network Objects Administration Handlers

Technology and Business Integration creates competitive advantages for IT providers

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SLAM: Service Level & Accounting Manager

The integration of technology and business offers IT providers a competitive advantage.

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CLAAS: Joint Planning and Reporting Platform

The planning processes of CLAAS are optimally supported by the implemented planning tools as well as the reporting.

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ZF Friedrichshafen AG: IT asset lifecycle management with SAP ERP for Friedrichshafen factories

The new user-friendly system offers ZF Friedrichshafen AG a high level of automation in its procurement process, thus improving throughput times and better data quality.

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PUTTING THE CUSTOMER IN THE FRONT SEAT: VOLKSWAGEN drives customer satisfaction with SAP CRM implemented by syskoplan

Quality customer service means the many parts of Volkswagen need to collaborate and share information through an integrated application architecture. SAP CRM fits neatly into that concept.

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AUDI: Innovating the Customer Experience and amplifying the Return on Investment

Audi believed redefining the customer experience through Customer Relationship Management (CRM) would unlock customer retention.The company’s vision is to recast Audi’s face to the customer by creating a more holistic relationship among manufacturer, dealer and customer. The result: a premium ownership experience that boosts customer satisfaction and repurchase.

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Volkswagen Financial Services - Driving Sales and Service by integrating People, Information and Processes

Volkswagen Financial Services AG is Europe’s largest automobile financial services provider and a major consumer bank. The company needed to replace the customer facing process to provide full visibility of customer data. Volkswagen Financial Services chose SAP CRM, SAP NetWeaver and syskoplan for the integration.

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Volkswagen FS - Multi-Brand CRM at Volkswagen Financial Services AG

Volkswagen Financial Services pursues a consistent CRM strategy in customer care. Processes and company organisation structure have been organised according to customer groups and aligned to customer requirements. This customer-oriented IT architecture requirement was met with the implementtation of SAP® CRM for a standard customer care and SAP® NetWeaverTM as a systems integration platform. Syskoplan Reply designed and implemented major parts of the over-all architecture. Thanks to the intelligent integration using state-of-the-art integration tools and incorporating existing banking systems, a service-oriented platform for innovative customer processes with high investment protection value was created.

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DRS. Dealer Rendering System

The Dealer Rendering System, identified with the acronym DRS, is an application which, within the Automotive industry, makes it possible to request, manage and analyse materials returned by the sales, dealers and repair-shops network, optimising the reverse logistics process and automating processes for identifying responsibilities for faults.

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IAS/IFRS accounting standards: problems and solutions

The necessity to implement the IAS/IFRS standards results from the need to adopt clear rules at European Union level aimed at ensuring comparable and transparent financial information.

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A supply chain intelligence system to monitor and control distribution times and costs

For a large enterprise operating in the Automotive industry Technology Reply has implemented a new Business Intelligence system aimed at monitoring the Key Performance Indicators of the Logistics area.