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Bank of America Merrill Lynch 2019 Auto Summit Jim Baumbick Vice President Enterprise Product Line Management, Ford Motor Company April 17, 2019


 
Driving Capital Allocation To High-Margin, High-Growth Businesses HIGHLY ACCRETIVE ROIC (%) + Circle size = 2017 +/- EBIT (Bils) • Utilizing Product Line 50% Management to take necessary 150% of actions, with urgency, to Company 40% EBIT optimize portfolio and drive profitable growth with 30% High Performing appropriate returns 20% • Raising the returns of underperforming assets where 10% we can via fitness and Profitable alternative business models - + EBIT Expense For (15)% (10)% 10% 20% Margin • Shifting capital to higher-return Future Growth (10)% businesses and investments (20)% Low Performing (30)% HIGHLY DILUTIVE - 2 Note: All references to EBIT and EBIT Margin are on an adjusted basis


 
Leveraging Ford’s Strengths WORK ADVENTURE HUMAN PERFORMANCE CONNECTION 3


 
Migrating To A Product Line Management Focus Successful Businesses Eight New Product Lines 1 North America Truck F-Series #1 full-size pickup globally 2 Global Truck Ranger #2 medium-size pickup outside U.S. 3 Commercial Vehicles 4 Utilities & Passenger Vehicles Transit #1 cargo van globally 5 Icons Explorer #1 America’s all-time best-selling SUV 6 Luxury 7 Electrified Vehicles Mustang #1 sports coupe globally 8 Emerging Markets Based On Ford’s Most Successful Vehicles, We Are Scaling The Product Line Management Focus Across Our Full Portfolio 4


 
Migrating To A Product Line Management Focus Successful Businesses Common Elements Of Success Affinity for the product line: Team members wake up F-Series living and breathing the product line Empowered teams: Autonomy to make decisions and respond to rapidly changing market conditions to Ranger optimize business outcomes Deep customer intimacy: In-market presence and deep Transit customer understanding with a human-centered design approach Explorer Continuity over time: Team members involved and learn from the same product line over multiple lifecycles Mustang Well-understood Franchise DNA: Customers and Ford teams know what the product line stands for Common Elements Of Success Will Change The Way We Work 5


 
Shifting Spending To Successful Truck, Utility And Winning Businesses Global Industry Segmentation (% Of Total) Ford Capital Allocation Shift (% Of Total) Truck / Utilities Car 43% 53% 64% 91% 57% 47% 36% 9% 2015 2019 2016 - 2020 2019 - 2023 6


 
Changing How We Work Operating Model and Key Objectives Drive Stronger End-to-End Business Results FROM TO Deep customer • Traditional customer • Deeper customer insight and research insight – design-thinking strategic choices FRESH! • Hierarchical formal • Agile and streamlined decision-making decision-making Stewards of product End-to-end product freshening cadence line continuity • Subsidized • Making shrewd choices underperforming product lines Shared Faster accountability for decision-making business outcomes We Are Driving Strong Business Results Using New Operating Models End-to-End Along Product Lines 7


 
Deepening Our Customer Relationship And Growing Moats Through Human-Centered Design Thinking Ford’s Experience Designers analyzed a courier’s typical day and identified ways to enhance human performance to save seconds each time a drop was made. Operator fatigue was reduced and efficiencies realized Safely shutting down, securing and re-starting a modern van can require as many as 50 actions per drop $2K Illustrative 15 x 80 = 100 = 850+ Example: seconds saved drops minutes saved extra drops salary savings per drop per shift per week per vehicle, per year per driver, per year Human-Centered Design Enhances Partnerships With Our Customers To Make A Successful Business Even Better 8


 
Improving Our Successful Commercial Van Business Growing Leadership Position Transit Family NA #1 Brand Outsells next competitor 2:1 #1 Brand EU Leveraging relationships to improve an already strong business #1 Brand China Poised to grow in wide-body bus and van We Are The Global Leader In The Commercial Van Segment; Our Product Line Focus Will Drive Continuing Growth 9


 
Expanding Our Portfolio To Preferred Segments Urban Rugged EXPEDITION FX4 Large ST NEW EXPLORER ST NEW EDGE BRONCO ON-ROAD MUSTANG INSPIRED BEV PERFORMANCE ECOSPORT NEW ESCAPE SMALL RUGGED Small UTILITY SHARPEN FORTIFY & GROW CONQUER Sharpening our focus to be more expressive in Maintain core offerings and capture growth with Aggressively re-entering the off-road adventure Urban Active and performance oriented utilities emotive sport and off-road offerings space that we helped create 10 = portfolio expansion


 
Transforming Our Product Freshness Portfolio Ford U.S. Passenger Vehicles Average Age of Portfolio (Years) Improved Short-term Approach (2018 - 2020) Legacy Nameplate Drops Lower is • Significant new Utility product Better 5.8 introductions 5.6 5.4 5.3 • Elimination of legacy Sedan nameplates 3.5 Enhanced Long-term Approach 3.3 3.2 (2020+) 3.0 • Shorter product lifecycles, with a longer outlook on Shorter Product Cycles nameplate direction • Customer / competitive-driven 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 cadence actions Note: Mid-Cycle Actions not included; non-volume-weighted assessment 11


 
Allocating Capital To Win – Michigan Assembly Plant 2017 Products 2017 vs. 2021 2021 Products (200K Units) Improvement (200K+ Units) C-MAX $1B+ Ranger (2019 launch) EBIT Focus Bronco (2020 launch) 12


 
Benefits Of Product Line Management • Capital allocation informed through strategy – making choices • Leverage franchise strengths • Expand portfolio to preferred segments • Grow moats with a relentless focus on customer use cases • Increase speed to market • Transform product freshness Allocate Capital To Where We Can Win – Higher-Return Opportunities 13


 
Q&A


 
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