Where this shows up

Global manufacturers run engineering, design and plant-floor software under wildly different licensing terms across sites, subsidiaries and joint ventures, and nobody owns reconciling all of it until an audit forces the question.

How we approach it

• Build a global license inventory that accounts for site- and subsidiary-level entitlement differences.
• Reconcile entitlements against actual deployment across every plant, not just headquarters.
• Flag overlap and non-compliance risk before renewal or audit windows.
• Establish a standing governance process so the inventory stays current as sites and joint ventures change.

What changes

• Fewer compliance surprises at vendor audit
• Clearer visibility into license overlap worth eliminating
• A defensible, current inventory across every site