Implementation of OneExperience-Platform

Our approach

Mercedes-Benz AG specified the target of building a data-driven OneExperiencePlatform. PwC has thus assisted in building a future-proof marketing ecosystem in order to deliver unique customer experiences. To create a OneExperiencePlatform, PwC embedded the Salesforce Customer Data Platform (CDP) and Marketing Cloud Personalisation (MC Personalisation) as the central marketing platforms in order to consolidate all customers’ activities and thus deliver personalised and connected experiences across channels. 

PwC treats technology as an enabler for driving business value while retaining a focus on the customer experience. To build and scale the platforms, PwC used its proven rollout and enablement approach. 

In the first phase, initialisation, PwC assessed the status quo and drew up a business case to determine the strategic value as well as the costs involved. Along with the business case, PwC performed a tech assessment to understand the existing data and technology landscape, ensured it had the right understanding of existing products, assessed data quality and defined business and technical requirements.

The second step, piloting, aimed to validate the business value of the MC Personalisation and CDP pilot. 

During the pilot, PwC considered the following points: 

• Definition of use cases, required data sources and systems to be integrated
• Setting up the tool with roles and responsibilities
• Creation of a customised data model and integration of data sources
• Activation of the use case and KPI monitoring by setting up a reporting dashboard
• Development of an operating model

The pilot phase is followed by the rollout phase, which aims to scale the successful implementation and use cases up to a global level. In this phase, the global implementation of the platform and activation of the use cases were performed using a dedicated rollout concept. At the same time, PwC designed and conducted a business enablement program to carry over the change process. In addition to designing and implementing the CDP and MC Personalisation, PwC made it a priority to align the teams with a view to building one marketing engine based on two systems. Therefore, PwC specified frequent synchronisation cycles and ensured transparency based on the sharing of knowledge, processes and progress.

The final phase included implementation of its operation and governance. Deriving lessons learned to be fed back to the rollout team created a continuous agile cycle of improvements, insights and new use cases, which were in turn piloted and rolled out.

Project results

A single source of truth was established in order to merge customer information from multiple systems into a single record and thus prepare for a cookieless world. This has enhanced the capability of Mercedes-Benz AG to target its customers effectively and improve marketing efficiency. Based on a unified profile and the new insights, customers’ engagement across all touchpoints with the brand are highly personalised.

In detailed terms, the following results were achieved:

• 34% upturn in CTR compared to emails sent out without CDP
• 37% higher open rate with MC Personalisation omnichannel use cases compared to other email campaigns
• 285% higher UCTR with MC Personalisation omnichannel use cases compared to other email campaigns
• 181% higher CTOR with MC Personalisation omnichannel use cases compared to other email campaigns