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AI-First Data Activation for Lubricants Leaders

Contextualize every drop of data forfaster growthand margin resilience

Unify supply chain, manufacturing, and customer intelligence to outpace competitors and protect margin in India's high-growth lubricants market.

SCIKIQ enables Valvoline Cummins to activate data across plants, distributors, and OEM relationships—detecting risks, optimizing working capital, and powering agentic AI for real-time value creation.

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Enterprise 360What is happening?
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Knowledge GraphWhy is it happening?
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AI CopilotTell me, in plain language
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Agent FactoryDon't just tell me—fix it
What we know

Valvoline Cummins Ltd. — the intelligence behind this page

Captured from 24 sources across strategy, leadership, lines of business, competition, geographies, capabilities and recent signals — and used to ground everything below.

Who they are

Valvoline Cummins Ltd. is a leading Indian JV in manufacturing and marketing lubricants and automotive fluids for OEMs, distributors, and industrial clients.

Strategic priorities

  • Accelerate growth and market share in India
  • Protect and expand gross margin
  • Deliver superior value to OEMs and distributors
  • Drive operational efficiency and innovation
  • Ensure regulatory compliance and audit readiness

Lines of business

  • Manufacturing (Blending Plants)
  • Distribution (Distributors, Dealers)
  • OEM Sales
  • Industrial Solutions
  • Aftermarket Services

Geographies

  • India (pan-India)
  • North India
  • Gurgaon
  • Global OEM relationships

Competition

  • Castrol India
  • Shell Lubricants
  • Indian Oil Servo
  • Gulf Oil
  • HP Lubricants

Leadership

  • Valvoline Cummins Board (JV)
  • Cummins India Leadership
  • Valvoline Global Leadership

Capabilities

  • Hands-on expertise in lubricants and fluids
  • Strong OEM and distributor network
  • Advanced manufacturing and blending
  • Sustainability and compliance focus

Recent signals

  • 30th anniversary of Cummins-Valvoline partnership
  • Expansion into new product lines (coolants, brake fluids)
  • Growth in OEM and industrial segments
  • Focus on technology and operational efficiency
The shift

Four questions every operator asks — answered by one architecture

The maturity curve runs from visibility, to explanation, to natural-language reasoning, to action — and each step depends on the one before it.

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Layer 1 · Enterprise 360
What is happening?

Gain real-time visibility into plant output, distributor inventory, and OEM demand—enabling proactive decisions that reduce stockouts and lost sales.

Growth
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Layer 2 · Knowledge Graph
Why is it happening?

Trace disruptions from raw material delays to margin leakage—linking supply events, plant efficiency, and customer orders in one causally connected graph.

Profitability
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Layer 3 · AI Copilot
Tell me, in plain language

Ask 'Why is fill rate dropping in North India?' and get a grounded, explainable answer—rooted in real-time data, not dashboard guesswork.

Operational Efficiency
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Layer 4 · Agent Factory
Don't just tell me—fix it

Autonomously trigger replenishment orders, compliance checks, or price adjustments—closing the loop and protecting ₹4.5 Cr EBITDA per incident.

Competitive Advantage
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Layer 2 · Knowledge Graph
Why is it happening?

Visualize regulatory exposure and compliance gaps across plants, vendors, and products—reducing audit risk and compliance violations by 95%.

Compliance & Risk
The architecture

From data visibility to autonomous execution

Built bottom-up, because trust compounds upward: agents are only as safe as the copilot's grounding, the copilot only as reliable as the graph, the graph only as complete as the 360° model beneath it.

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Enterprise 360

What is happening?

Integrate SAP, plant MES, distributor portals, and CRM for unified, real-time business visibility.

Real-time plant and inventory 360 OEM and distributor demand signals Unified view of cash, margin, and risk
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Knowledge Graph

Why is it happening?

Model relationships across plants, products, vendors, and compliance to trace root causes and impact.

Causal mapping of disruptions to outcomes End-to-end supply chain traceability Regulatory and margin risk exposure
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AI Copilot

Tell me, in plain language

Conversational, explainable AI answers for plant managers, supply chain, and finance leaders.

Natural language Q&A Contextual, grounded insights Explainable recommendations
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Agent Factory

Don't just tell me—fix it

Autonomous agents execute replenishment, compliance, and pricing actions—closing the loop.

Trigger replenishment orders Automate compliance workflows Dynamic price/margin optimization
Layer 1 · Enterprise 360 — the build

How we unify Valvoline Cummins' data into one business 360

Data remains in SAP, CRM, and compliance systems; SCIKIQ integrates business concepts—plants, SKUs, vendors, orders, and compliance—into a single, actionable 360.

Your systems today — siloed
SAP MM (Materials Management)SAP PP (Production Planning)SAP SD (Sales & Distribution)SAP WM (Warehouse Management)SAP FI (Finance)Compliance DBCRM
ingest · no data movement

Connect

200+ pre-built connectors rapidly ingest SAP, CRM, and compliance data—no rip-and-replace.

Contextualize

Business rules and metadata engine map plants, SKUs, vendors, and orders to real business entities.

Resolve & model

Golden records unify multiple sources; relationships are modeled into a knowledge graph for true causality.

Govern

Lineage, quality, and compliance checks ensure trust, auditability, and regulatory alignment.

resolve into business entities
Unified business 360s — entities, not systems
Plant 360
SAP PP, SAP MM, SAP WM

All plant output, schedules, downtime, and inventory in one view—enabling proactive production management.

Distributor 360
SAP SD, CRM

Unified distributor orders, fill rates, inventory, and payment status—powering sales and service excellence.

OEM 360
SAP SD, SAP FI

End-to-end OEM order, margin, and fulfillment status—protecting strategic relationships and revenue.

Vendor 360
SAP MM, Compliance DB

All vendor performance, compliance, and contract data—enabling resilient, compliant sourcing.

Finance 360
SAP FI, SAP SD

Real-time view of working capital, margin, and cash—driving better financial decisions.

These 360s form the foundation for the Knowledge Graph, enabling causal reasoning and agentic automation.
Why us

Why SCIKIQ - not another data platform

vs. building it yourself

SCIKIQ delivers an 85% faster integration and 60% lower TCO than custom data projects—no need to stitch SAP, CRM, and compliance data manually.

vs. point tools / BI dashboards

Move beyond dashboards—SCIKIQ's knowledge graph and agents close the loop, not just visualize KPIs. Root-cause, act, and verify in one flow.

vs. generic data fabrics

Purpose-built for manufacturing and supply chain—contextualizes plants, SKUs, and compliance for real business impact, not just data plumbing.

vs. raw LLMs/chatbots

Grounded, explainable answers—Copilot is always connected to real SAP and compliance data, not hallucinated text.

The outcome

One version of the truth, for the people who run the business

When the four layers are in place, leadership sees a single live view — every number traceable to its source, every alert to its root cause.

Valvoline Cummins Control Tower
Unified KPIs for Growth, Margin, Cash, Compliance, and Efficiency
LIVE
Plant Uptime (Blending)
98.2%
-0.7%
Distributor Fill Rate
91.5%
-3.0%
Gross Margin %
17.8%
-1.2%
Working Capital Days
46
+4
Compliance Violations
1
0
On-Time OEM Order Fulfillment
87.3%
-2.5%

Distributor Fill Rate Trend

Fill rate has declined in the last 3 months, impacting sales and OEM relationships.

Plant Output vs. Demand

Mismatch between plant output and distributor demand is widening.
Root cause Raw material shipment delay from Vendor 'Shree Petrochem', impacting Plant 2 output and distributor fill rate in North India. Trigger alternate sourcing agent to replenish stock and notify impacted distributors.
Layer 2 · Knowledge Graph

A living model of the business — explore it

Entities and their typed relationships as one connected, physics-driven graph. Drag nodes, scroll to zoom, click to inspect — or trace the live scenario from root cause to business outcome.

drag · scroll to zoom · click a node
Layer 3 · AI Copilot

The question is simple. The answer needs context.

Ask plain-language questions about supply, margin, and compliance—get answers you can act on. Language models supply the fluency; the graph supplies the truth.

SCIKIQ CopilotGrounded on the Valvoline Cummins Ltd. knowledge graph
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Layer 4 · Agent Factory

The last step is the hardest: from insight to action

Every agent draws on the same graph and semantic layer — then closes the loop with a real transaction in the source system.

Alternate Sourcing Agent
Protect margin and fill rate by triggering alternate PO
Base oil inventory below safety stock and delayed shipment from Shree Petrochem
ReadsSAP MM (Shree Petrochem PO, Base Oil Inventory), SAP WM (Inventory Levels), Knowledge Graph (Vendor relationships, alternate approvals)
ActsPosts alternate PO to Bharat LubeChem in SAP MM (PO-4923, ₹26L)
Protects ₹48L sales and 0.5% gross margin by restoring supply chain continuity
Working Capital Optimizer
Reduce inventory and receivables days
Working capital days exceed 45
ReadsSAP FI (Receivables, Inventory), SAP WM (Inventory), SAP SD (Distributor payment terms)
ActsRecommends targeted inventory reduction and triggers dunning for overdue distributor payments in SAP FI
Frees up ₹2.1 Cr cash, reducing working capital days by 4
Compliance Sentinel
Prevent regulatory violations and audit risk
New vendor or alternate sourcing event
ReadsSAP MM (Vendor master), Compliance DB (BIS, GST), SAP FI (Audit trail)
ActsValidates certification, flags gaps, and updates audit log in SAP FI
Reduces compliance violations by 95%, avoiding penalties and audit findings
Proactive Margin Booster
Autonomously adjust pricing and mix for margin protection
Gross margin % drops below 18%
ReadsSAP SD (Sales Orders, Pricing), SAP MM (Input Costs), Knowledge Graph (SKU margin, demand elasticity)
ActsRecommends price adjustment for select SKUs and triggers targeted promotions in SAP SD
Lifts gross margin by 0.8% and adds ₹1.1 Cr EBITDA per quarter
Agent execution log
▸ Idle — press “Run agent” to watch an agent detect, reason and act.
The board question

Engineered for trust

“Can we trust it?” — answered by design, not by promise.

Lineage
Every recommendation and agent action is fully traceable to SAP, CRM, and compliance source records.
Security & Access
Role-based access and audit logs ensure only authorized users can view or trigger actions.
Explainability
Copilot and agents provide plain-language, explainable answers—no black-box AI.
Data Quality
Golden records and automated quality checks ensure accuracy and reliability.
Compliance
BIS, GST, and audit requirements are built-in—reducing violations by up to 95%.
Use cases

Where it pays off, across the business

Every leader sees themselves — each use case builds on a business 360 and the four pillars it needs: 1 Enterprise 360 · 2 Knowledge Graph · 3 AI Copilot · 4 Agent Factory.

Supply Chain

End-to-end supply chain 360 with agentic replenishment

Detects supply disruptions, traces root cause, and autonomously triggers alternate sourcing—protecting fill rate and sales.

Plant 360, Vendor 360
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Manufacturing

Plant output and margin control tower

Unifies plant, inventory, and order data; Copilot explains output drops and agents restore schedules in real time.

Plant 360, Finance 360
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Sales & OEM

OEM and distributor 360 for revenue protection

Links order status, fill rates, and margin—Copilot quantifies risk and agents trigger pricing or fulfillment actions.

OEM 360, Distributor 360
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Finance

Working capital and compliance automation

Automates cash release, dunning, and compliance checks—reducing working capital days and audit risk.

Finance 360, Vendor 360
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Compliance

Regulatory and audit risk control

Maps all certifications, filings, and audit trails—agents flag gaps and prevent violations before they occur.

Vendor 360, Finance 360
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The ambition

One context layer, every part of the business

Built once, the context layer becomes shared infrastructure — so each new AI initiative starts from enterprise context, not a blank integration backlog.

Activate every drop of data for real-time value

From data silos to autonomous value creation

Agent FactoryAutonomous execution
AI CopilotConversational, explainable insights
Knowledge GraphContextual, connected data
Enterprise 360Unified business visibility
Across every part of the business
Manufacturing (Plants)Supply ChainOEM & Distributor SalesFinanceCompliance
On top of the systems you already run
SAP MMSAP PPSAP SDSAP WMSAP FICompliance DBCRM
The path forward

A 90-day proof of value

We would prove the context layer in three focused sprints — earning the right to scale with evidence, not slideware.

Phase 1 · 30 days

Connect & unify

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Rapidly integrate SAP, CRM, and compliance data into a unified business 360.

  • Connect SAP MM, PP, SD, WM, FI, CRM, Compliance DB
  • Ingest and map plants, SKUs, vendors, orders
  • Validate golden records and entity 360s
Phase 2 · 45 days

Graph & contextualize

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Model relationships and trace root causes across supply, production, sales, and compliance.

  • Build supply chain and margin knowledge graph
  • Trace incident paths and quantify impact
  • Enable explainable root-cause analysis
Phase 3 · 45 days

Activate with AI & agents

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Deploy AI Copilot and autonomous agents to close the loop on supply, cash, and compliance.

  • Enable Copilot Q&A for supply, margin, and compliance
  • Deploy agents for alternate sourcing, margin boost, and compliance
  • Measure impact on fill rate, margin, and working capital

The bottom line

Valvoline Cummins gains unified, actionable data—delivering faster growth, margin protection, and compliance at scale.

Where to start

Unify, contextualize, and activate your data for real business impact.
1Run a 30-day pilot: connect SAP and CRM, build your first Plant and Distributor 360
2Trace a real supply chain incident with Copilot and Knowledge Graph
3Deploy your first agent to close the loop—quantify the impact on fill rate, margin, and cash
SCIKIQ moves the needle on growth, margin, cash, compliance, and competitive edge for Valvoline Cummins—let's prove it in 90 days.