Success Story
High Tech products to vehicle industry
Implementing an integrated planning and control system to meet customer requirements
MISSION
Our customer is a leading automotive supplier with locations all over the world. In that project we focused on the seat support systems branch. In our collaboration we were facing the typical challenges in automotive industry with high volumes and multiple customers with heterogeneous requirements.
SOLUTION AND WORK PROCESS
The main task was to design, implement and establish a competitive planning and control system at a plant in Eastern Europe.
Establishing a profound process model as a framework and strategic basis
Design and implementation of planning processes and procedures to address customer needs
Realization of planning and control and a material management concept to ensure demand synchronized production
Integration of all relevant processes and departments along the supply chain
Implementation of appropriate KPI-monitoring and control system
The key challenges in the project were as follows:
Data availability
Coping of multiple interfaces between different systems
Replacing local planning systems by an integrated system approach
RESULTS
Our customer achieved a higher customer service (OTIF) and reduced response times for customer deliveries in full and sustainable. Moreover we were able to join forces to meet customer requirements and improve customer satisfaction and at the same time reduce the costs of production.
Reduction of planning efforts, depicting digitally all relevant supply chain areas to gain transparency and overview
Improve service by monitoring and improving on time in full deliveries
