Manufacturing Industry in Europe

IT Market Assessment

Publication Date	October 2008
Publisher	Infiniti Research
Product Type	Report
Pages	19
ISBN Number	not applicable
Product Code	INF00251

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Summary

Driven by the high fuel prices and increasing euro value, manufacturers in Europe have begun to enter strategic partnerships and collaborations with suppliers overseas to improve responsiveness across their supply chain. Further, deregulation and new stringent norms in the EU are driving manufactures towards collaborating and partnering, taking advantage of free trade flows in low-cost countries such as Romania and Netherlands, increasing capacities at reduced costs and entering new markets. In addition, pharmaceutical manufacturers have begun to look at collaboration and partnerships as a part of expanding their R&D activities.

Further, health and safety compliance and energy cost constraints have pushed manufacturing organizations towards innovative products with a strong technological content and value add. In addition, changing customer demands and increasing competition especially in consumer goods and pharmaceutical manufacturing segments are driving manufacturers to introduce new innovative products.

The report forecasts the IT spending of the Manufacturing Industry in Europe over the period 2007-2010. It is meant for IT vendors and intends to help them identify selling opportunities in the Manufacturing Industry in Europe. The report identifies key business issues being faced by the Manufacturing Industry in Europe.

Further, the identified sales drivers can be used to penetrate these accounts or increase current share of the customer's wallet. Also, the report lists leading IT buyers and provides their brief company profile, along with their IT spending.

TechNavio Insights is a set of reports based on TechNavio - a market intelligence platform for the IT industry. It builds on the intelligence available within TechNavio, and leverages on the custom research experience of the 'Technology Navigators'. TechNavio is built on years of experience of Infiniti Research in deep dive custom research and consulting for over 30 Fortune 500 companies and numerous large and mid-sized companies.

Content

1. IT Spending and Forecast
2. Criticality Score
- 2.1 Evaluating Criticality Score
2. IT Sales Drivers
- 3.1 Being Environment Friendly
- 3.2 Collaboration & Partnerships
- 3.3 Global, Integrated Supply Chain
- 3.4 Information & Knowledge Management
- 3.5 Mergers & Acquisitions
- 3.6 Offshoring & Outsourcing
- 3.7 Online Sales & Marketing
- 3.8 Product Mix Expansion
- 3.9 Relocating Manufacturing Capacity to Low Cost Countries
- 3.10 Time-to-market
4. Key Customers
- 4.1 ArcelorMittal
  - 4.1.1 Business Overview
  - 4.1.2 Key Figures
  - 4.1.3 Corporate Headquarters
  - 4.1.4 IT Spending
- 4.2 Nestl SA
  - 4.2.1 Business Overview
  - 4.2.2 Key Figures
  - 4.2.3 Corporate Headquarters
  - 4.2.4 IT Spending
- 4.3 Siemens AG
  - 4.3.1 Business Overview
  - 4.3.2 Key Figures
  - 4.3.3 Corporate Headquarters
  - 4.3.4 IT Spending
- 4.4 Sanofi-Aventis
  - 4.4.1 Business Overview
  - 4.4.2 Key Figures
  - 4.4.3 Corporate Headquarters
  - 4.4.4 IT Spending
- 4.5 Novartis AG
  - 4.5.1 Business Overview
  - 4.5.2 Key Figures
  - 4.5.3 Corporate Headquarters
  - 4.5.4 IT Spending
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List of Figures
- Exhibit 1.1: Europe Manufacturing IT Spending and Forecast 2007-2010 (In $ million)
- Exhibit 2.1: Calculations for Estimating Criticality Score
- Exhibit 2.2: Criticality Scores for Various Software Applications
- Exhibit 2.3: Criticality Scores for Various Hardware Products
- Exhibit 2.4: Criticality Scores for Various IT Services