Driving customer profitability
The world is changing rapidly and with it the business landscape. Our business model focuses on how we can improve our customer’s profitability.
Long-term relationships with our customers are the basis for a profitable Scania. By delivering the right products and the right services we support our customers in improving their operating income. High-quality vehicles and services maximise customer profit and uptime. Maximum load capacity and flexibility are also important for the customer to ensure a stable stream of revenue.
You gain insights into different client needs through close customer contact and the relationship with customers spans the entire life of the vehicle. The actual sale is just the starting point.
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20 Mar 2024
Niklas Klingenberg's major career change is for the win
With more than two decades at Scania, of which most of them have been within Procurement, the career twist for Niklas Klingenberg – the man with one role at TRATON and two roles at Scania - isn’t what you would expect. Nevertheless, Niklas is in the right spot at the right time. -
08 Mar 2024
From game developer dreams to patent success: Meet Fatima Strand
For Fatima Strand, our Service Director in Japan, daring to try is always on the cards. She has been living in Tokyo since mid-2023 because that is a market with great potential and where she can make a noticeable difference if she succeeds. She also has a patent to her name. This innovation made it possible for Scania to keep up with legal requirements for Euro6 engines. -
20 Feb 2024
What life is like at Scania - meet David and Christine
To work at a big, global company – what’s that really like? Meet David and Christine, Scania employees developing the system in the electric vehicle that communicates with the charger. They tell you about their world, and there may be a lot more fun in their everyday challenges than you think. -
06 Feb 2024
Empowering innovative minds with breakthrough ideas
Through Scania Innovation Factory, creative pathways open for Scania employees to develop entrepreneurial competencies. By exploring and experimenting with pioneering ideas, they master skills that drive real change with brilliant innovations and potential business opportunities. -
23 Jan 2024
Sarika Kanade visits Sweden to strengthen cross-cultural collaboration
Agile coach heads for Stockholm to enhance cross-cultural collaboration and explore ways to bring improved work processes back to India. A partnership programme opens possibilities for the local team to learn more about the Scania Way of working and leadership principles. -
08 Jan 2024
From combustion engines to electricity – David made a smooth transition
Battery development expert and chemist David Raymand embarked on a transformation journey that mirrors Scania's evolution. Once a senior in combustion engine development, David now stands as a prominent figure in battery technology. -
16 Oct 2023
Accelerating innovative start-up collaboration in China
Anton ventures to China with the assignment to tap into the start-up ecosystem and cement long-term collaboration with the local market. -
03 Oct 2023
“The first time we tested the solar charging it took place indoors!”
Software engineer Naomi Anveden Hertzberg was one of the five software developers working on the world's first solar-powered truck project at Scania. She explains her work and shares her impressions of what she calls a unique and exciting experience. -
23 Aug 2023
More than Pride – Scania’s work on diversity and inclusion
Scania proudly participates in Stockholm Pride Parade in August every year, and colleagues around the world are involved in Pride activities. It’s a way to show support for the LGBTQI community, but also the tip of the iceberg on the work that is done with diversity and inclusion at the company on a daily basis. -
21 Mar 2023
A unicorn among engineers
Scania’s Power Solutions is one of our business areas that supplies engines and services in industries that demand highly reliable and heavy-duty components. Former trainee Amanda Claesson is Key Account Manager for one of our largest customers in this field. -
20 Mar 2023
Blessy inspires women to take the next step
Participants will be gathering at the Women in Tech conference in Stockholm, Sweden on 23 March to advance girls and women in the technology sector. Representing us at the Scania booth is Blessy Perumal Chacko, Head of AI technologies. -
08 Mar 2023
Energy and interaction make Christina’s world spin
As Service Manager at Scania’s People & Culture IT, Christina Crafoord has taken on a new role. Not just for her, but for a completely new position that hasn’t been available before. -
27 Feb 2023
Employee initiative helps accelerate Skill Capture
The XLR8 network was launched in Södertälje in 2015 as an employee discussion forum about gender equality at work, but it has since grown to become a network that is an important voice in helping to create an inclusive workplace. Rebecca Ivemyr and Sofie Lundberg, from XLR8 explain more. -
09 Dec 2022
The Scania Hack is a creative hub and an energy boost
What started as a weekend hack in Scania’s gym-hall in 2012 by a bunch of enthusiasts from Scania IT, has become an institution that is relevant to the whole company. -
11 Jul 2022
Scania talents on exchange at start-up company sennder
Scania Growth Capital has invested in several companies, German freight forwarder start-up sennder being one of them. Currently, four Scania employees, do a short-term internship in Berlin and Amsterdam to experience what it’s like to be part of a brand-new company and contribute with their knowledge. -
18 May 2022
Skill Capture opens doors to the talent Scania needs
Scania’s Skill Capture programme puts a diversity and inclusion mindset at the heart of the company’s recruitment process, so that it can attract the right people and skills for its transformation journey. “Skill Capture opens doors to the talent we need for the future,” says Lisa Sundelin, Talent Specialist, P&C Global People Services. -
11 May 2022
Therese’s autonomous solutions impact society
Autonomous solutions, that is where you’ll find Scania’s Therese Reinhammar, our Director for Solutions Delivery. Her call ever since she began her career at Scania, has been to work with change, build things and develop the organisation, people and business areas. Or simply, put new things into place. -
08 Mar 2022
Ewa helps Scania map out its future
What will the future of transport look like? How does Scania decide on its products, services and strategies? Ewa Sondell, a Service Designer in Scania’s Research and Innovation Office, helps answer this question. -
08 Mar 2022
She ensures a smooth start for Scania's battery factory
Julia Mörtberg is Industrial Engineering Manager at Scania Battery Production, and responsible for making the processes and staff operational in the new battery assembly unit in Södertälje by 2023. During her six years at Scania she has managed industrial projects, developing products and production vital to the whole Traton Group. -
16 Feb 2022
The valuable innovations that push Scania forward
Each year, Scania registers hundreds of new patents for technologies that are a result of the innovative daily work of its many employees. One of those innovators is Per Arnelöf, an Expert Engineer at Scania R&D. -
23 Nov 2021
How the vision of an autonomous future affects reality
How does tomorrow’s vision of an autonomous society guide our decisions of today? And how does these visions and expectations affect our development of new technology? Marie Bemler, Industrial PhD at Scania, does research on how the expectations of our future influences the present. -
31 Aug 2021
Top leader shares opportunities
If you have been given the possibility to develop yourself and been challenged and supported by great leaders throughout your career, the chance is you end up as one of those inspiring people. This happened to Lars Gustafsson, Head of Service Portfolio and Delivery at Scania’s Sales & Marketing. -
16 Aug 2021
Laura builds a better world with autonomous vehicles
Early in life, Laura Dal Col decided she wanted to do something meaningful for society and the environment. As a manager at the Scania Autonomous Transport Research department, she truly makes a difference in the world. -
30 Apr 2021
Scania's commitment to sustainability caught Stina’s interest
She graduated from The Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, with a MSc in Electric Power Engineering. Scania approached her and her fellow students right from the start and invited them to the factory in Södertälje a few times over the years. -
28 Apr 2021
The company’s innovative spirit made her choose Scania
Johanna Blomqvist is working with coordinating efforts within electrification projects with other departments at R&D. -
26 Apr 2021
Hiba is proud to make a positive impact
As a Development Engineer, Hiba Ben-Talha is part of a team at Scania’s R&D Software Simulation. The team is responsible for a software simulation platform, a virtual truck and bus, where designers and engineers can test new products before trying them out in real life. -
15 Apr 2021
Scania Siam takes lead on equality
Thailand has more women in leading positions than most countries. At Scania Siam, half of the managers are women, and two thirds of the executive board. -
31 Mar 2021
He takes charge of Scania's electrification journey
Since the beginning of 2021, Magnus MackAldener is responsible for Electrification Development at Scania Research & Development. MackAldener, with experience from two major development projects of significant meaning for Scania, now takes on yet a third. -
24 Mar 2021
Lifelong learning for Scania employees
New technologies demand another kind of competence. As the industry experiences a new era with autonomous vehicles, electrification and digitalisation, the need to extend knowledge in various fields emerges. -
12 Mar 2021
Fiora is driving the shift for Scania
With electrification on the whole transport industry’s agenda, Scania is pushing change even further by a new, clear structure involving eMobility. This is a vital part of the company’s purpose to drive the shift to sustainable transport solutions. As Driving the Shift Manager at Scania, Fiora Cheng Gårdemyr contributes to Scania’s ambition to develop our eMobility business, starting with the European markets. -
17 Dec 2020
Meet the people that make fossil-free transportation possible
Earlier this autumn Scania introduced its first commercial electric truck range, a milestone in its aim to be leading in the transition to a sustainable transport system. And from now on Scania will launch new electrical trucks and buses every year. Meet some of the young, dedicated experts who make this transition possible. -
10 Dec 2020
She developed Scania´s new City Door from thesis concept to commercial launch
Few have the opportunity to see their Master’s theses come to fruition. Development Engineer Christine Eriksson at Scania customised truck development is a privileged exception. Together with former fellow student and current colleague Anna Tisell, she in 2017 developed the concept for what has now been launched as the City Door. -
20 Nov 2020
The front-end-developer-programme changed her career path
Tina Tizro used to work as a flow controller in Supply Chain Network in Södertälje. But this spring, her career path changed. “I was lucky enough to be accepted as one of the candidates to Scania’s front-end-developer-programme.” -
13 Nov 2020
She keeps track on environmental impact
Development engineer Dora Burul calculates environmental impacts of products and services over their whole life cycle. She started her career at Scania after she graduated from the master’s programme Sustainable Technology at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in 2018. -
06 Nov 2020
Scania winds down ventilator engagement having reached targeted tripled production
As the Coronavirus pandemic continued to spread across the world, hospitals were overwhelmed by the increasing number of patients in intensive care. The shortage of ventilators was acute and Getinge, the Swedish medical technology firm that accounts for one-quarter of the world market, needed to swiftly boost production. -
27 Aug 2020
Smart Factory Lab enhances production efficiency
Scania’s Smart Factory Lab is an in-house incubator that tests and trials new technologies that can enhance production efficiency. Following limited trials managed by the Lab, successful new devices and methods can gainfully be implemented throughout Scania’s global production system. -
24 Jun 2020
Qiuchen Wang helps strengthen research collaboration with China
Qiuchen Wang will strengthen collaboration with Chinese research institutions. -
30 Mar 2020
Scania and Karolinska University Hospital work together to solve Stockholm’s healthcare equipment crisis
About 20 experts from Scania’s purchasing and logistics organisation are now helping Karolinska University Hospital and Region Stockholm to acquire protective equipment for healthcare workers working to save those suffering from COVID-19. At the same time, trailers from Scania are being converted to mobile testing stations. -
11 Feb 2020
Meet the driver of Team Sweden’s ski waxing trailer
Markus Forsberg is more adept than most in mastering steep Alpine roads. It’s his third season at the helm of the Swedish cross-country skiing team’s Scania waxing trailer, and he safely manoeuvres the 16.5-metre truck and trailer combination through serpentine roads with hairpin curves to reach competition locations. -
16 Jan 2020
Preparing for an outstanding electric powertrain
Scania’s axle and gearbox assembly is readying itself for serial production of the battery electric powertrain. -
04 Dec 2019
Investing for the future of students – and the planet
Students and teachers at the Björknäs Upper Secondary School in the northern Swedish city of Boden are thrilled with the school’s latest acquisition – a Scania R 410 biogas truck. The vehicle will be used by the school’s vehicle and transport vocational programme to train the drivers and service technicians of tomorrow. -
27 Nov 2019
Strategic leadership for changing times
Scania teams up with Stockholm School of Economics to deliver Scania Evolution, a future-focused in-house management programme. -
20 Nov 2019
Robotic Process Automation gives employees more interesting tasks
Robotic Process Automation (RPA), looks at automating tedious, repetitive jobs so employees have more interesting tasks. -
09 Oct 2019
Daniel finds space to innovate at Scania
The space industry was not innovative enough for Daniel Peña, so he set his sights on the Scania Engineer Program instead. Now he loves coming to work every day. -
24 Sep 2019
Meet the engineers who developed Scania’s new cabless concept truck
In many respects, the engineers entrusted with developing the concept truck Scania AXL entered uncharted territory. For most, building the autonomous truck has been the greatest challenge of their professional lives. -
16 Sep 2019
Pushing trucks to the absolute limit
What if your job was to push trucks to the absolute limit of their abilities? To wear them out during a specific amount of time, to discover and fix issues as they arise? -
12 Sep 2019
Scania awarded gold rating for Corporate Social Responsibility
Best score yet from leading business sustainability ratings provider. -
14 Aug 2019
Digital Twin takes predictive maintenance to the next level
Scania is developing a cutting-edge data integration tool for real-time vehicle performance assessment. The concept called Digital Twin is based on linked data, and it will take predictive maintenance to the next level. -
07 Aug 2019
Managers crucial in fostering employee engagement
A group of young Scania professionals from around the world have studied how employee engagement is approached within the organisation, as well as in a wider context. The group, all participants in Scania’s Business Challenge, have presented their findings to Scania’s top management. -
24 Jul 2019
The race is on with KTH Formula Student self-driving vehicle
Formula Student (FS) is an annual engineering competition for university students around the world, that sees teams compete in static and dynamic events. -
04 Jul 2019
Sustainable thinking in clothing for truckers
At Scania, not only trucks, but all products are developed with great consciousness. The proud heritage and values are things that shine through from the start. The design process is well-defined and it does not matter if you are a designer of a new truck, a t-shirt or anything else, the process of developing the products is thorough. -
05 Jun 2019
Skill Capture ambassadors get online course
Skill Capture, Scania’s way of working with diversity and inclusion has been rolled out to management teams since 2017. -
12 Apr 2019
How to reach a work-life-balance
As one of only two Scania accredited experts in project management Bo Andrén has a level of experience that few can match. -
03 Apr 2019
Energy and environment in focus for future engineers
Attractive and highly qualified engineering and graduate education provide the basis for maintaining and developing automotive research in Sweden. The cooperation between KTH and Scania was established many years ago and aims at improving Scania’s access to advanced expertise and strengthening KTHs research and education. -
07 Mar 2019
Simulation – a new tool to optimise production
Simulation is increasingly being used to speed up and reduce costs in product development. In her Master’s thesis, Afroz Mirzaie Shra has demonstrated the potential for similar benefits in production. -
12 Feb 2019
Scania’s Smart Engineering Lab focuses on innovation
The future holds both opportunities and challenges. New business models emerge and the traditional transportation eco system is under pressure. To handle what is to come, Smart Engineering Lab, a brand new part of R&D Digital Office, was launched. -
11 Feb 2019
Meet Scania’s expert on battery cells and modules for electric vehicles
Meet Verena Löfqvist Klass, an expert on battery health, and a leading light in Scania’s development of battery cells and modules for its electric vehicles. -
17 Jan 2019
Ashura stars in services
Despite her normal work assignments in sales, Ashura Akukweti found herself spending more and more time in the workshop. Her passion was rewarded when she recently was appointed manager for Scania’s workshops in Tanzania. -
17 Dec 2018
How the Scania Global Champion Trainee Program kick-started Yelena’s career
Yelena Ivanova was looking for a trainee scheme that would kick-start her career, and the Scania Global Champion Trainee Program seemed to be just what she’d been looking for. Now, as far as she can tell, the sky’s the limit. -
14 Nov 2018
Immigrants train to become service technicians
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17 Oct 2018
Bus driver Charlotte is fulfilling a childhood dream
Charlotte Bayn is one of the first female bus drivers in Ghana’s capital Accra, but she took a unusual route to get there. She had nearly finished her four-year-long training to become an accountant, although she didn’t hesitate to change careers when the opportunity came along. “I’ve wanted to drive buses and trucks since I was a child,” she says. -
15 Oct 2018
Scania empowers women to move the city of Accra
The campaigns “Women moving the city” and “Women moving trucks” aim to reduce the gender gap in Ghana’s transport industry. Nearly 100 women have trained to become bus or truck drivers in the capital Accra. -
03 Oct 2018
Passion for sustainability leads to Scania
A lifelong passion for sustainability and a keen interest in the role of responsible sourcing led Rasmus Finnström to Scania. -
24 Apr 2018
Digital mobility services cater for changing conditions in the transport sector
Scania Go is an integrated mobility service covering several types of transport. It is currently being tested in Södertälje. The transport industry is at present undergoing a shift, and the demand for such services is increasing. This is the opinion of Johan Palmqvist, Head of Business Development at Scania Sustainable City Solutions. -
19 Apr 2018
New (improved) service simplifies travel for Scania’s employees in Södertälje
View current timetables for Scania’s on-site minibuses and for its commuter bus service between Stockholm and Södertälje, or find the closest available electric bicycle… Scania Go will be launched at the beginning of May: a service designed to facilitate travel for Scania employees that will serve as a platform for the testing of new business areas. -
21 Mar 2018
Driving change in Ghana
The initiative to recruit and train more female bus drivers in Ghanaian capital Accra, has now passed the halfway mark. Having undergone weeks of training, the women are now well on their way to becomming qualified bus drivers. -
06 Feb 2018
An above average intelligence
After two years at the Volkswagen Group’s central research division in Wolfsburg, Mikael Johansson, predevelopment of autonomous vehicles, knows everything there is to know about how to get an autonomous vehicle to drive the required route. He has been working on the development of electrical systems at Scania for nine years. The opportunity to work in Germany on autonomous vehicles and AI (artificial intelligence) came at just the right time! -
21 Dec 2017
Anna listens to trucks
Sound can be measured but at the same time our perception of sound is very subjective. Especially our expectations of what a Scania should sound like. That’s what makes Anna Färm’s job so fascinating. -
07 Nov 2017
Accra’s drive for gender equality
The ‘Women Moving The City!’ initiative set out to recruit and train more female bus drivers in Ghana’s capital city Accra. The project’s aim is to even out the gender gap in the transport industry while providing women with free access to training and improved career prospects. -
12 Sep 2017
New construction range: A dream mission for Scania’s designers
The mission was a dream come true for Scania’s design team – to style a completely new truck range for the very toughest construction operations, and to do it in close cooperation with future users of these new vehicles. -
11 Aug 2017
14 nationalities developing autonomous transport solutions
From Europe to Asia and on to Oceania. When it comes to the development of autonomous transport solutions, a total of fourteen nationalities are represented. The Predevelopment department recruits all over the world. -
24 Nov 2016
Scania’s service advisors have the customers in focus
Bursting with energy, Menatalla Ashraf has wanted to work at Scania ever since she first visited the company on a field trip in her second year at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. -
23 Nov 2016
service advisors with the customer in focus
”I particularly like the direct contact with my clients in their daily operations,” says Pilar Lendine from Scania in Spain. Meet her and her colleague Andreu S. Martorell and hear them talk about their jobs in Scania’s global Sales and Services network. -
16 Oct 2016
A job of increasing importance
Rikard Visuri had no thoughts of joining Scania when he completed his civil engineering degree in Computing Science at Umeå University in 2010. But when he had an interview appointment, he changed his mind entirely. -
30 Sep 2016
Scania analysts ensure quality of new trucks
Premium is Scania’s hallmark. Each new part in the new generation of trucks – roughly 2,500 parts in total – has been carefully scrutinised by a group of analysts in design quality. -
05 Sep 2016
The cab factory of the future
The launch of Scania’s new generation of trucks marks the company’s biggest industrial investment of the past two decades. The world’s most modern cab factory is manned by 283 new, high-tech robots plucked straight out of a science fiction film. -
17 Aug 2016
Mentors for new engineers
What are the ABCs Swedish working life? Drawing on his own experiences, R&D engineer Mehran Arefi Sigaroodi decided to become a mentor to engineers who have recently arrived in Sweden. -
21 Jun 2016
Jenny’s creative journey of knowledge
As the newly appointed head of HR Support at Research and Development, Jenny Kron Kylefors has once again challenged the limits of her knowledge. With her extensive interests, Jenny’s choice of career has never been obvious.