The Results

Toyota Australia's new IBM solution is already deriving cost and time savings, according to Scott. "Since the migration, we have lowered our TCO and estimate that over the next four years our IBM eServer platform can help us save up to AU$7 million in hardware and facilities management costs," he says. "We have also measured faster run times for many important jobs." Scott reports that these time savings included cutting down to three minutes a supply chain job that previously required two hours, and reducing the time to complete a material costing job that typically had lasted ten hours down to only two hours.