Mercedes-Benz AG has positioned the Mercedes-Benz Automotive organization in Turkey as the Global IT Solutions Center as well as the Purchasing Units Support Center. Mercedes-Benz Turkey, whose global responsibility has increased, will create employment for an additional 2022 people in 200.
Within the scope of the "Project Future" application launched in 2019, Mercedes-Benz had implemented a new corporate structure in order to better evaluate the opportunities offered by the new mobility era, prioritize customer satisfaction and further strengthen its position in the sector as a product and service supplier. Mercedes-Benz AG was restructured in Turkey as well as in the rest of the world, and formed Mercedes-Benz Otomotiv Ticaret ve Hizmetleri A.Ş. to carry out the activities of the automobile and light commercial vehicle product groups.
Mercedes-Benz Automotive, which continues its sales and after-sales services in the field of automobiles and light commercial vehicles with a total of over 2019 employees in its structuring that started in Turkey in 750, also houses the Global IT Solutions Center. The company serves its automobile and light commercial vehicle customers with 38 sales, 56 service points and more than 3.800 dealer network employees spread all over Turkey.
The Global IT Solutions Center, which has grown 500 times since its establishment with a team of approximately 10 people, serves all Mercedes-Benz locations around the world as a software development base. same zamIt also plays an important role in the development of software engineering in Turkey.
In addition to these responsibilities, the company aims to establish a Purchasing Service Center in 2022. With the new formation, Mercedes-Benz Automotive will provide support from Turkey to global teams carrying out purchasing projects for automobiles and light commercial vehicles in global markets.
Şükrü Bekdikhan, Chairman of the Executive Board of Mercedes-Benz Automotive and Automobile Group, said in a statement; “After the new global restructuring, our parent company Mercedes-Benz AG is positioning Turkey as a support base and our global responsibilities are expanding as Mercedes-Benz Automotive. In our company, which serves Mercedes-Benz branded cars and light commercial vehicles, we aim to create additional employment for approximately 2022 people in 200 with our new responsibilities.”
Global IT Solutions Center continues to grow
Özlem Vidin Engindeniz, Member of the Executive Board of Mercedes-Benz Automotive, Director of the Global IT Solutions Center; “With the continuous investments we made in our Global IT Solutions Center, which was established in 2013, we reached nearly 500 employees and grew by 10 times during this period. Our center, which provides 7/24 software development activities in Turkey as well as system support and maintenance services for many locations of Mercedes-Benz AG in the SAP field, and application-dissemination services to more than 40 countries on the Rollout side, provides business areas related to new IT technologies. continues to grow by incorporating Our center, which was chosen for the realization of some of the operational needs in the field of cyber security technologies, successfully fulfills its missions on critical issues. In this context, we are an exemplary institution in terms of software engineering in Turkey and we export software from Turkey to the world. We will also include new IT colleagues in our team in 2022.” he said.
Engindeniz stated that as the Global IT Solutions Center, they regularly come together with university students and young professionals; “One of our work in this area is 'Innovate! We held our second Hackathon called 'STAR HACK', which we set out with the motto of 'Be Responsible for Sustainability', in December. While a total of 396 individuals applied for the event, 10 people consisting of 43 selected teams competed fiercely. The winner of the 24-hour STAR HACK process; He became the Biz.meFutures team with the carGoo project, which is about the 'web server that provides free charging to electric cars by encouraging people to carry cargo on the route they will go'.
The target for 2022 in automobiles is to have electric vehicles at 10 percent of total sales.
Mercedes-Benz Automotive, which closed the year 2021 with a sales figure of 15.398 units in the automobile group, repeated its sustainable success by catching up with last year's numbers in the passenger car market, which shrank by 7.9 percent.
Şükrü Bekdikhan, Head of Mercedes-Benz Automobile Group; “In 2022, we will further increase our focus on fully electric cars, expanding our model range with the EQS, the compact SUV models EQA and EQB, and the EQE, the sporty high-end sedan based on the electric architecture of the EQS. In 2022, we plan that our electric cars will make up 10 percent of our total sales.
Aiming to continue its innovations uninterruptedly in 2022, Mercedes-Benz also aims to present automobile models such as the renewed Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door Coupé, Mercedes-Benz C 200 4MATIC All-Terrain, Mercedes-AMG SL and New GLC to the Turkish market within the year.
High level of comfort and prestige in passenger transportation
Tufan Akdeniz, Member of the Executive Board of Mercedes-Benz Automotive Light Commercial Vehicles Product Group; “We achieved a total of 2021 sales in the light commercial vehicle market in 6.100, increasing our sales figure of 2020 units in 5.175 by 17,87 percent. With these results, we once again maintained our leadership in the segments in which we operate. 'Unique in the premium segment. We started the sale of our new Mercedes-Benz V-Class model with the slogan "Beyond V…". In our Vito Tourer model, which we updated in engine and equipment options, we offered a new power level of 237 HP. Vito Tourer once again became the best-selling vehicle in the 9-seater vehicle category. Our New Sprinter model, which we introduced to the market in 2019, was ordered by companies that provide passenger transportation without interruption and became the best-selling vehicle in the minibus category in 2021. In 2022, we will continue to offer high-level comfort and prestige in all areas of passenger transportation. In parallel with the revival of the tourism sector with the decrease of the effects of the pandemic, we foresee an increase in investments in passenger transportation and the development of our sales with our vehicles that we stand out in this field. In the coming period, we will be by our customers' side with our products and services that provide advantages both when purchasing and using them."
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