How Scania accelerates work with AI across its global workforce

Founded in 1891, Scania operates across Europe, the Americas, and Asia-building the trucks, buses, and transport systems that keep the world moving.

Today, the company is accelerating the shift to a sustainable transport ecosystem while shaping what AI adoption looks like inside a highly technical, engineering-led organisation evolving from vehicle maker to global transport ecosystem leader.

We sat down with Jan Andries Oldenkamp, Chief Information Officer, and Jan Guhres, Senior Manager Business Enabling Services, to hear how Scania is rolling out ChatGPT Enterprise, enabling experimentation across teams, and building AI into the team DNA.

"It’s going faster - both in time and in quality."

—Jan Andries Oldenkamp, Chief Information Officer

Inside the rollout

Scania's decentralised culture meant teams were ready to explore AI from day one. Adoption spread quickly across engineering and operations, supported by a partnership with OpenAI that began around a year ago. Licences were made widely available so teams could experiment, share what worked, and uncover use cases organically.

From the outset, governance was built to enable-not restrict-experimentation.

"We had good cooperation with legal and security from day one," says Guhres. "By providing clear guidelines, engineers and builders felt free to experiment-and it’s worked ever since."

To ensure capability stuck, Scania introduced team-based onboarding, not isolated individual training.

"Everyone was only allowed to join if they joined as the whole team. That’s how we build continuity... we wanted it in the team DNA," Guhres explains.

As more teams gained confidence, momentum accelerated. This blend of strong bottom-up energy and enabling guardrails is now shaping how Scania scales AI deeper into core engineering and operational workflows, turning experimentation into enduring capability across the company.

"The pace of the requests keeps expanding."

—Jan Guhres, Senior Manager Business Enabling Services, Scania