Flexibility of the industry
In the automotive industry, as in many other industries, it is the customer who chooses the product and demands its customisation. This has placed flexibility at the base of the pyramid as one of the key qualities of companies in the industry that want to provide a rapid response to their customers, their suppliers, and the market.
Car manufacturers build a four-sided strategic cube:
- reduction of costs
- greater flexibility of the business structure by technological means
- restructuring of the supplier system
- globalisation and internationalisation of procurement
What's more, the introduction of just-in-time production models has forced suppliers to adapt their production rates to the demands of companies. This is why companies have implemented strategies (with certain differential nuances) that have a series of common features: an intense development of process innovations. This has been possible thanks to organisational innovations in production phases to enable competitive improvements.
MICROSOFT CERTIFIED SOLUTION
Additional guarantee for companies that implement it
Cross-Sectional Characteristics
- All areas integrated without alternative processes.
- Availability, traceability and quality of data for
- Immediate responses to any situation.
- Homogeneous and synergistic management of production processes.
- Locations and plants.localizaciones y plantas.
- Ease of use and learning.
Industry-required EDI
- Includes all messages and incorporates.
- Customer logistics requirements.
- Adaptable to customer requirements.
- Configurable deviation of demand alerts.
- Immediate actions.
- Immediacy, avoiding manual errors.
Contracts
- Contract per customer and item with all the data
- Salespeople: validity, price, customer reference.
- Logistics: unloading points and addresses, reconciliation type (accumulated, last delivery note, overlap), buffer warehouse, packaging structure (in-house, returnable or invoiceable).
Sales
- Management of cleared programs and forecasts (manual or EDI).
- Automatic reconciliation and program deviation alerts.
- Includes main requirements of customer logistics (RAN, MPUS, VW-GTL, etc).
- Control of returnable packaging stock in in-house, buffer or customer warehouses.
- Automatic invoicing of packaging and consumables not included in the price of the part.
- Self-invoicing (manual or by EDI).
Warehouse
- Streamlined picking process by scanning barcodes.
- Strict control to avoid errors in entries, picking and labelling.
- Up-to-date and reliable stock, identified by box number, pallet, type of packaging, plain version and batch.
- Guided RF device processes to ensure FIFO.
- End-to-end guaranteed traceability.
Purchases
- Automatic purchase planning based on customer programs.
- Non-compliance alerts (customer changes, incidents).
- Management of contracts and purchasing programs (cleared and forecasts).
- Consignment management.
- Management of self-invoices to supplier.
- Integration with quality module (reception guidelines, non-conformities, blocks, tests, etc).
- Supplier appraisal (multi-criteria).
Production
- Optimal production planning including multi-cavity moulds/tools, multi-figure, maintenance, etc.
- Subcontractors: optimal and error-free management of material flows, receptions and outsourced stock.
- Stock control in all production phases.
- Compliance with customer requirements in safety parts.
- Traceability of unit label, box, pallet and batch.
- Inntegration with quality (control guidelines, deadlocks, tests, non-conformities, non-quality costs, etc.).
TEKNIA
COMPANY: Leader in the manufacture and distribution of components for the automotive industry. It has three specialised divisions, Plastics, Metals, and Machines, as well as a subdivision specialising in research, development, and innovation services applied to the solar and automotive industries.
PROJECT:
- Implementation of EQM AUTOMOTIVE SCM for the integration of all business areas without alternative processes.
- Implementation of an RDF solution for warehouse and stock management.
- Integration of the project with a new EDI solution for Logistics customers in EDI messages.
- Definition of a one-stop overall production model for the whole company.
