Salesforce Manufacturing United States

Kawasaki Engines

Customer Service Automation · Sales Automation

Kawasaki's Engines and Government & Fleet Sales teams were operating in separate Salesforce instances and other tools, making it difficult to share customer information, support cases, forecasts, warranty context, and cross-sell opportunities.

Automate hundreds of tasks

Reported impact

Business outcome

Kawasaki improved visibility across divisions, automated warranty and support tasks, and created a more predictive operating model for both service and sales teams.

  • Customer Experience
  • Productivity Improvement
  • Revenue Growth

Solution

Kawasaki is using Data 360 as the connective tissue between sales, service, warranty, and marketing workflows so employees can operate across formerly separate divisions from a unified set of customer and product data. Agentforce Sales and Agentforce Service run on top of that shared record, giving teams a way to track service activity, answer customer questions, score leads, and surface cross-sell or upsell opportunities without switching between isolated systems. The implementation also includes Tavant, a Salesforce-based partner app that brings warranty information into the platform and automates hundreds of downstream tasks with Flow and Process Builder so staff spend less time rekeying information. With Agentforce Manufacturing and Data 360 together, Kawasaki can look at build dates, shipping information, buyer details, and product performance in one place, improving both customer support quality and the speed of strategic sales decisions.

Data flow

Customer, lead, warranty, and product data from Kawasaki's divisions are unified in Data 360, Tavant feeds warranty activity into Salesforce, and Agentforce uses the combined record to answer service questions, score sales opportunities, and prompt proactive follow-up.

Solution architecture

5 components · 3 layers
  1. Storage
    • Data 360 Unifies sales, service, and product data across Kawasaki's previously separate divisions.
  2. Serving
    • Tavant Brings warranty information into Salesforce and automates related workflows.
    • Agentforce Manufacturing Uses unified product, shipping, and warranty context to support post-sale service and sales planning.
  3. Orchestration
    • Agentforce Sales Helps teams score leads, manage opportunities, and prepare for proactive outreach.
    • Agentforce Service Supports customer-service activity and case handling on the connected data model.

Architecture clues

  • Agentforce is paired with manufacturing, service, and sales context rather than a single department workflow.
  • Data 360 connects common data points from multiple Salesforce instances and other systems.
  • Tavant is the warranty workflow application running on the Salesforce platform.

Evidence from the source

Agentforce Manufacturing helps Kawasaki manage everything from production to post-sale services.
Each department used different instances of Salesforce, along with a variety of other software.
Kawasaki implemented Data 360 to connect the common data points.
Tavant's automation, integrated with Salesforce tools like Flow and Process Builder, has helped Kawasaki automate hundreds of tasks.
Transparency Evidence & methodology 75/100 reference value · 87% confidence · 1 source

Review how this reference was scored and trace each normalized claim back to its documented source.

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Scoring methodology

How scores are calculated

Customer Reference Value measures usefulness as a customer reference. Evidence Confidence measures the quality and traceability of available evidence, not independent verification.

Customer reference value75/100
  • Problem clarity20/20
    Measures whether the customer's operational problem is specific enough to compare.
  • Implementation depth25/25
    Rewards named components, data flow, integrations, and architecture detail.
  • Outcome specificity20/20
    Measures whether the reported benefit is concrete rather than a generic claim.
  • Quantified impact0/25
    0 metrics describe measurable impact.
  • Deployment scale10/10
    Rewards evidence of a live or scaled deployment and meaningful integration scope.
Evidence confidence87%
  • Source authority20/25
    The main evidence is an official vendor-published customer story.
  • Claim traceability21/25
    10 of 12 key fields link to a named source.
  • Direct evidence20/20
    4 direct source quotes retained.
  • Date provenance10/10
    The publication date comes from the source page or publisher.
  • Source transparency8/10
    1 source reference document publisher, URL, authority, retrieval, and supported fields.
  • Implementation specificity8/10
    Rewards source-backed components, data flow, quantified impact, and a specific outcome.
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Traceability

Sources & provenance

Field coverage shows which facts each source supports. Dates are shown only when documented by the source.

  1. Salesforce

    Kawasaki Engines customer story

    First-party
    https://www.salesforce.com/customer-stories/kawasaki/
    Source type
    Vendor-published customer story
    Published
    Sep 6, 2024
    Supports
    • Customer
    • Business problem
    • Solution
    • Products
    • Solution components
    • Data flow
    • Integrations
    • technical area
    • use case category
    • Business outcome
    • outcome category
    • Metrics
    • Architecture
    • evidence quotes
    • Publication date

Date evidence

  • Published on source page Sep 6, 2024 · Salesforce · First-party
    Open date source
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