These industry-specific solutions for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) can help you increase efficiencies and profits, whether you are an automotive OEM, supplier, or a sales and services provider. The Automotive Industry works in a changing environment, and is looking consistently beyond traditional methods.
To meet the requirement of today's, the automotive industry's are working to collaborate more closely and operate in a seamless, global network range of partners. Now pertinent questions that arises are:
How to make the transition with new techniques and increase profits in a challenging industry
How to quickly deliver high-quality, innovative products and services?
How to boost customer satisfaction and retention with real-time insights?
How to align sales and service processes for improved profit margins?
How to reduce inventories, manufacturing lead times, and operational costs?
Data error and data inconsistency on account of manual operations.
Lack of interaction between few of the stand alone applications meant poor visibility on the real status of work in terms of the details of raw materials, work-in-progress etc.
Inability to map between a production order and corresponding sub-contractor order.
Inability to track the raw materials and partially finished products received from vendors and sub-contractors in terms of accepted / rejected from the quality check performed internally.
Lack of integrated solution denied the top management a bird’s eye view of the status of operations
Solution given by SAP Business One
SAP Business One (SAP B1) eliminated the need for the manual process and stand alone applications, thereby removing any opportunity for data errors and data inconsistencies.
Being an integrated package having all the functions (Purchase, Stores, Production, Marketing, Sales and Finance), it was able to provide visibility on the real status of the work.
With SAP B1 in place, the customer was able to map the production orders to the corresponding sub-contractor orders
SAP B1 helped the customer to track the quantity of goods accepted after an internal quality check performed and helped in financially, debiting the vendors for the rejections
Reports across various functions were designed through PLD, Crystal Reports and Excel Reports. This helped the management in accelerated decision making.
