Other IHS Automotive Capabilties

IHS Automotive provides meticulously detailed information on vehicle Parc – also referred to as total vehicle registrations, vehicle units in operation, or vehicles in use.

Light Vehicle Parc & Density Forecast

• Detailed Coverage: Official type split, country-level (CAR, LCV)
• Geographic coverage: 54 countries across 11 regions
• Updated: quarterly
• Horizon: 10 years of historical data, 7-year forecast horizon

Western Europe Light Vehicle  Parc Actuals

• Detailed Coverage: Model-level with powertrain content
• Geographic Coverage: 16 West European countries
• Updated: Once per year around December
• Horizon:  1982 to current year-1

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Keeping abreast of the latest global automotive industry sales data is crucial. You need the data for critical competitive and internal analysis, but tracking and gathering the information as it is released can be time-consuming and frustrating.

The IHS Automotive Light Vehicle Rolling Sales Actuals does all the data tracking, aggregating, and codifying for you, so you can focus on using it to conduct timely and accurate analysis of your market performance, the effectiveness of incentive programs, market share fluctuations, and more.

Only IHS Automotive has the global reach to stay on top of automotive industry data. Our Light Vehicle Rolling Sales Actuals product provides:

• Immediate access to month-end sales actuals at the model level “as reported” by country
• Updates across the top-42 light vehicle sales volume countries in consistent single rolling data file format; and
• Date-stamped country updates for ongoing version recognition and control.

Rolling Sales Actuals is constantly updated on a rolling basis as supplied monthly by reporting countries. Data are delivered in monthly buckets.

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European Light Vehicle Production CO2 Forecasting Service

The IHS Automotive European Light-Vehicle Production CO2 Forecasting Service assists automotive vehicle and technology manufacturers with forecasting CO2 performance for vehicles produced in Europe up to five years out. The service provides an indicator of the most likely future CO2 output by vehicle model based on future technology adoption, providing useful insights into European vehicle production CO2 trends.

The service offers:

• The ability to perform vehicle make and model-level analysis
• CO2 performance ratings reported by vehicle manufacturer and OEM Group
• The potential to forecast competitor vehicle's CO2 performance for benchmarking purposes
• Quick assessments of the medium-term CO2 impact of individual technology solutions
• Analysis based on IHS Automotive industry-leading Powertrain Service

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PartBase Software

Do you need to streamline Business Planning/Forecasting to provide real-time updates and scenarios for rapid decision support? Content your forecast with bill-of-material and manufacturing inputs to enhance future margin and productivity?

PartBase is an encrypted hosted software tool that enables clients to link their parts data with IHS Automotive forecasts. The software, developed by Saphran Solutions, an IHS partner firm, and powered by IHS Automotive forecasts, was created with input from over 50 automotive suppliers. The software has enjoyed 100% launch success to improve business planning accuracy, frequency and productivity with enhanced market risk mitigation capabilities.

Saphran's PartBase enables you to:

• Improve commercial team productivity
• Reduce long lead time and effort to create annual strategic plan
• Tie part-level bill-of-material and manufacturing inputs to the forecast
• Perform ongoing market scenarios and risk analysis
• Spot market exceptions/changes and adjust plan
• Easily compare forecasts to actual shipments
• Integrate with ERP/MRP/PLM/Finance systems
• Support all business functions using and enhancing consensus managed forecast that is always up to date

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IHS Automotive Scenarios Advisory Service

The IHS Automotive Scenarios Advisory Service helps organizations prepare for the long-term future by examining the key forces that will shape the industry in the years ahead. The service offers a set of three distinct scenarios through 2030 and endeavors to answer questions such as:

• Will motorization of personal transportation in developing economies adopt similar patterns as developed economies?
• Will vehicle ownership adapt to new challenges?
• How will growing urbanization and aging population affect vehicle mix?
• How will powertrain technology developments respond to different markets with their energy and climate change policies? Where? When?

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