ERP for automotive suppliers

In order to maintain a reliable overview between sales, production and delivery, the ERP of automotive suppliers must guarantee fast workflows with a high level of process reliability. To be able to guarantee this, the solution should first adapt to the automation standard of the industry. With EDI processes, delivery data is simply transferred directly between the ERP system of the automotive supplier and the customer's ERP.

Automotive suppliers need EDI

Already at the sale this function plays a decisive role. The framework agreements on quantities and prices are initially defined with the customer. To this end, the customer constantly sends call-offs, which can be processed manually using ERP or automatically via EDI are recorded. The ERP also compares the delivery quantities with the customer data or creates commission statements.

Flexible production control

In the production the ERP for automotive suppliers is under great pressure. The system must react quickly and flexibly to incidents such as missing material or rush orders. When scheduling production orders, the ERP also has to reconcile conflicting parameters. The system also enables the automotive supplier to make important decisions, such as whether a product is better manufactured in-house or whether external labour should be used. On top of this, it should have flexible production control in order to be able to respond to rush orders, for example. The right ERP system provides access to the Batch numbers always guaranteed.

Secure logistics

In the delivery the automotive ERP must first recognise whether the goods are to be stored, sent to production or dispatched to the customer. Picking for production and dispatch can also be handled by a suitable ERP. Just like labelling the goods with e.g. barcode-labels. Often, customers also specify precisely in which Packaging the goods are to be delivered. The system can generate this and also manages the cycle of reusable load carriers. The delivery is also integrated into the EDI processes. Among other things, the electronic delivery note be sent directly from the ERP.

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