SYSPRO is a highly regarded ERP system for the Automotive Components Industry, known for its ability to manage the entire supply chain and provide an integrated view of all operations, from production planning and scheduling to purchasing and invoicing.
SYSPRO is a highly regarded ERP system for the Automotive Components Industry, known for its ability to manage the entire supply chain and provide an integrated view of all operations, from production planning and scheduling to purchasing and invoicing.
CHALLENGES FOR THE AUTOMOTIVE COMPONENTS INDUSTRY
Globalisation and the use of the Internet as a procurement and communication mechanism reduce the number of component manufacturers and increase competition. To secure business, component makers must drive down costs, improve quality, increase local content (in line with government policy), keep up to speed with international developments and design, and manage the complex life cycles of existing components.
SYSPRO FOR THE AUTOMOTIVE COMPONENT INDUSTRY
The Automotive Components and Accessories industry must offer superior products in a collaborative environment, in the correct quantity, at the right price and at the right time, while improving production flow and cycle times to succeed. SYSPRO for Automotive Components and Accessories provides creative, innovative solutions to these challenges. The Blanket Sales Orders and Releases module facilitates the automotive industry’s unique requirement, in which automotive OEMs regularly perform call-offs against order contracts with component suppliers.
HOW CAN SYSPRO HELP?
SYSPRO enables the industry to manage the entire supply chain, allowing an integrated view of all operations from production planning and scheduling to purchasing and invoicing. SYSPRO helps you streamline your business processes, accurately forecast sales quotas and operating budgets, and track progress on the shop floor, in the warehouse and in your distribution centres. Our inventory forecasting systems facilitate forecasting, recording, and replenishment of inventory. At the same time, our engineering change control applications provide the means to control and record changes to bills of material and enable archived bills to be accessed at any time.
And that is why SYSPRO is a highly regarded ERP system for the Automotive Components Industry.
Smaller businesses initially adopt affordable, entry-level accounting software, but as the business grows, these systems can’t keep up. Growing businesses need software that integrates business processes operated by various departments, such as inventory, order management, accounting, customer relations and more. Higher level accounting systems can help you get the financial insights you need to quickly identify opportunities and take fast action.
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Innovation drives competitiveness, and continuous research and development are essential for designing new and improved products. Your ability to develop new products, modify existing designs, and improve time-to-market is crucial for maintaining a competitive edge and profitability.
SYSPRO offers tools to optimise the introduction of new product designs and amendments to existing structures, as well as relevant costs. The Engineering Change Control (ECC) module allows for rigorous control over your design-to-market processes by providing an integrated rules-based electronic workflow system with complete version control, security, and auditable history.
ECC equips you with the tools to record and track new and modified product design and process changes, assess the impact of these changes on costs and associated data, and manage the changed routing and approval processes. ECC’s queries, audit trail, history, and archive facilities provide quick online access to details of prior product versions and the option of reverting to the production of a previous product version. Additionally, attaching copies of product design drawings to version and release levels offers access to visual details of revisions.
The Where-used Query facility enables you to identify all items affected by raising an Engineering Change order for all routes identified as being under engineering change control. Moreover, SYSPRO’s ‘replace component where used’ facility streamlines design changes by enabling the quick replacement of one item with a valid substitute item.
SYSPRO’s ECC, Bill of Materials, Work-in-Progress and Factory Documentation modules enable you to implement controls to ensure that your products are manufactured under consistent processes, to the correct designs and specifications. Single-level, multi-level, co and by-product bills are catered for, and flexible bill definitions accommodate complex component and sub-assembly requirements.
Innovation drives competitiveness, and continuous research and development are essential for designing new and improved products. Your ability to develop new products, modify existing designs, and improve time-to-market is crucial for maintaining a competitive edge and profitability.
SYSPRO offers tools to optimise the introduction of new product designs and amendments to existing structures, as well as relevant costs. The Engineering Change Control (ECC) module allows for rigorous control over your design-to-market processes by providing an integrated rules-based electronic workflow system with complete version control, security, and auditable history.
ECC equips you with the tools to record and track new and modified product design and process changes, assess the impact of these changes on costs and associated data, and manage the changed routing and approval processes. ECC’s queries, audit trail, history, and archive facilities provide quick online access to details of prior product versions and the option of reverting to the production of a previous product version. Additionally, attaching copies of product design drawings to version and release levels offers access to visual details of revisions.
The Where-used Query facility enables you to identify all items affected by raising an Engineering Change order for all routes identified as being under engineering change control. Moreover, SYSPRO’s ‘replace component where used’ facility streamlines design changes by enabling the quick replacement of one item with a valid substitute item.
SYSPRO’s ECC, Bill of Materials, Work-in-Progress and Factory Documentation modules enable you to implement controls to ensure that your products are manufactured under consistent processes, to the correct designs and specifications. Single-level, multi-level, co and by-product bills are catered for, and flexible bill definitions accommodate complex component and sub-assembly requirements.
SYSPRO’s suite of tools empowers you to identify and eliminate non-value-adding activities in your operational processes, leading to leaner operations. The automation of manual processes and the integrated, user-friendly design of SYSPRO’s functionality support the implementation of your LEAN initiatives. Value Stream Mapping (VSM) is made effortless with the seamless extraction of financial and operational information.
The Inventory module serves as a synchronised hub, offering a consolidated view of all stock locations and activities that influence inventory optimisation, customer service levels, and the comprehensive elements of costs and lead times. Utilise features like Pareto and obsolescence analysis to pinpoint products for VSM focus. SYSPRO’s modules, including Engineering Change Control, Bills of Material, Work-in-Progress, and Factory Scheduling, aid in evaluating targets for kaizen programs to reduce design and manufacturing costs, cycle times, queues, and setups.
SYSPRO’s robust inspection, serial tracking, and lot traceability functions are vital in identifying the source of defects. This enables the implementation of kaizen initiatives that adhere to the ‘Quality at the source’ principle. The queries and reports in Work in Progress will allow you to quickly assess the statuses, inventories and costs associated with work in progress and provide metrics on utilisation, efficiency, scrap, and rework. The customer and supplier delivery performance metrics are also provided by the Sales Order, Purchase Order and Inventory Optimisation modules.
SYSPRO’s Inventory and Bills of Material modules are designed to model LEAN techniques such as batch size reduction and setup minimisation, impacting costs, lead time, and inventory levels. SYSPRO’s Factory Scheduling offers graphical tools to optimise scheduling and sequencing processes, reduce setup and overall lead time, and improve manufacturing flexibility and sale-to-customer flow. These modules, coupled with inventory optimisation and production planning features, allow you to align production pace with sales demand. Additionally, features like sales order/job/purchase-order linking support the electronic implementation of true pull supply-chain processes where appropriate.
Document Flow Manager and SYSPRO e.net Solutions automate resource and time-intensive processes like order processing, handling increased volumes from global customers. Providing 24/7 order taking and acknowledgment, they enhance lead time and allow staff to focus on other value-adding tasks. SYSPRO’s XML-aware solutions offer version-independent integration with leading shop floor monitoring and control systems.
The system’s sophisticated reporting and analytics tools enable user-defined reports and queries. SYSPRO Workflow Services facilitates the creation of efficient workflows to implement business rules and standardise business processes. Electronic signatures and automation tools enable the automatic raising of alerts, triggers and events based on user-defined criteria, thereby aiding immediate problem-solving and process improvement.
SYSPRO’s flexible integrated features and best-practice focus give you single-point visibility and control, supporting the implementation of your LEAN initiatives.
Forecasting, while inherently uncertain, aims to sharpen the accuracy of predictions and fine-tune the balance between supply and demand. In environments with extensive product ranges, complex bills of material, and lengthy lead times for raw materials and components, enhancing forecast accuracy is vital to minimise inventory holding and obsolescence costs without compromising customer service and brand loyalty.
SYSPRO’s tools enable you to track and evaluate forecasts, pinpointing potential causes of forecast errors. These tools help optimise forecasts to achieve the best possible outcomes with minimal error.
The Inventory Optimisation suite includes modules for manual forecast entry and automatic generation of forecasts using various algorithms that account for trends, seasonality, and cyclical events. Additionally, the suite offers a competition forecasting method, which selects the most suitable forecast algorithm based on error measurement and your SYSPRO sales history data. This allows for comparing and determining the ideal method for forecasting products at any level—code, revision, release, or warehouse. A tracking signal indicates when a forecast’s validity may be in question, highlighting items with high forecast errors for review and adjustment as needed.
Forecast accuracy depends on the regular evaluation of the forecast error and the source data’s integrity and nature. In SYSPRO, forecast accuracy is enhanced through the ability to automatically filter and adjust outliers and manually adjust forecast base data for quantitative and qualitative factors. Lost sales can also be included in the demand profile.
Furthermore, SYSPRO’s proxy functionality enables forecasting new products based on the sales history of similar superseded products, useful in industries where product life cycles are short.