Tools and Best Practices for CSM Worldwide Forecast Clients

Global Sales and Production Executive Commentary

This monthly CSM Worldwide report is an executive overview of immediate prior month and calendar year-to-date sales and production performance, with remaining current calendar year sales and production forecasts, highlighting assumptions and major changes for the global, Europe, Greater China, Japan/Korea, Middle East/Africa, North America, South America, Australia, ASEAN and India markets.

This executive report is available every month to clients of CSM forecast services via the CSM Advance Efiles^™ link from the clients section of the csmauto.com website. A login and password are required to view this Adobe^® Acrobat^® file.

Global Sales and Production Executive Summary

This monthly CSM Worldwide report is an executive overview of both immediate prior month and year-to-date sales and production performance and near- to mid-term sales and production forecasts, highlighting assumptions and major changes in a Microsoft^® PowerPoint^® format for client usage during internal meetings.

The global synopsis includes: global production, global sales, short-term segmentation analysis, short-term OEM production analysis and global production seasonally adjusted annual rates.

This summary also includes production and sales presentation slides for Europe, Greater China, Japan/Korea, Middle East/Africa, North America, South America and South Asia.

This file is available every month to clients of CSM forecast services via the CSM Advance Efiles^™ link from the clients section of the csmauto.com website. A login and password are required to view this Microsoft^® PowerPoint^® file.

Analysis Pack

CSM Worldwide provides clients with a robust forecast analysis tool which offers users the ability to find answers to many frequently asked market questions in one place. This multi-tab workbook includes:

• Year-to-date and forecast calendar year production and variance summary along with the regional top 30 platforms;
• Current year start-of-production and end-of-production vehicles by month;
• Monthly, quarterly and yearly volume consolidation;
• Inclusion of fiscal year January to December for North American and European manufacturers and April to March for Japanese clients;
• Current CSM Worldwide production forecast versus the previous month's forecast across the forecast horizon;
• Vehicle lifecycle by quarter with volumes and lifecycle months, years, age, total and average volume;
• Pivot table with pre-defined macros for further customization and enhanced analysis.

This Microsoft^® Excel^® workbook contains macros to increase usability. The "Analysis Pack" file format is available for the global production forecast as well as individual regional forecasts.

This file is available every month to clients of CSM forecast services via the CSM Advance Efiles^™ link from the clients section of the csmauto.com website. A login and password are required to view this Microsoft^® Excel^® file.

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