Thanks to cost advantages such as cheap labor, raw materials, and industrial land, as well as the vast market space for automotive demand, domestic automotive component manufacturers have developed rapidly. With the global innovation of manufacturing technology, such as the maturity of information systems and the further upgrading of the intelligent manufacturing industry, innovative application of new technologies has enhanced the company's independent innovation capabilities and gradually laid out a production model dominated by intelligent workshops, Meeting the technical requirements of vehicle manufacturers, reducing costs, and increasing production capacity has become a trend for automotive component manufacturers to transform and upgrade.
Pain Points and Challenges Faced by the Automotive Parts Industry
Starting from the actual needs of the industry, starting with mature industry solutions, sorting out business problems and confirming optimization directions.
Coordination between supply chain and workshop
Supply chain management is critical for the auto parts industry, and it is necessary to ensure the timely supply of raw materials and parts to avoid production disruptions or delays and affect order delivery.
Complex production process and quality assurance
The production process of auto parts is complex, involving many processes and links.
In the production process, the quality needs to be strictly controlled and monitored to ensure that each part conforms to technical specifications and standards.
The coordination with the mainframe factory is inefficient.
JIT production mode is widely used in the automobile industry chain. As the upstream of the mainframe factory, the auto parts enterprises need to respond quickly to the needs of the mainframe factory and deliver the products needed by the mainframe factory on time.
Cost control and accounting difficulties
Auto parts industry raw material price fluctuations, labor costs and energy costs and other factors pose pressure on the production cost, and can not effectively calculate the actual cost, analyze profits, cost management is difficult.
How does TransInfo solve management challenges for automotive parts customers?
Analyze industry characteristics and use mature experience to help enterprises achieve comprehensive digital transformation and enhance profitability.
Overall architecture
R&D Management
Sales Forecast
Production plan
Manufacturing Execution
Quality traceability
Costing
Intelligent warehousing
Light intelligent manufacturing scene
Overall architecture
TransInfo Automotive Parts Industry ERP Solution, based on SAP ERP, is customized by the R&D center according to the actual business needs of multiple automotive parts manufacturers. It helps automotive parts enterprises achieve manufacturing and business collaboration, refined cost control, good workshop operation system, and intelligent data analysis system, and helps enterprises in the automotive parts manufacturing field transition to the field of light intelligent manufacturing.
The solution draws on SAP's successful experience in enterprise management informatization in the past 50 years, helping you gain real-time insight into key business processes and gain competitive advantages in the industry. It is suitable for various types of automotive parts enterprises both domestically and internationally, providing support for various key business processes and making business processes more efficient.
Efficient
Rapid collaboration of business processes
Real time
Provide real-time business value
Visual
Visualization of enterprise management data
R&D Management
Accelerate the response of automotive component companies to the launch of new products from vehicle manufacturers, accelerate the integration with vehicle manufacturers through trial production, and promote consistency between customer needs, product design, and delivery of products.
Realize seamless integration between the SAP system and professional design systems. The design system performs product design and imports it into the SAP system. Engineers can modify the design and automatically generate a production material list to hand over to the production department, providing real-time feedback to various business departments, unifying the information platform, and reducing information silos.
Through the research and development system, effective management of the trial production process is achieved, and independent management of materials, equipment, and molds for research and development is achieved.
Realize multi version management of BOM and process routes, as well as complete traceability of design, quality, and after-sales.
Sales Forecast
A customized sales forecast management component for the automotive parts industry, which helps component production enterprises make reasonable production and capacity predictions with accurate data support. Through the system, timely and efficient procurement and material preparation are carried out. At the same time, with the development of new customers and the existence of diversified sales models, TransInfo helps automotive parts enterprises develop reasonable production plans, Successfully and efficiently complete production tasks within the delivery deadline.
The flexible sales forecasting method can develop multiple flexible sales forecasting plans based on different departments, salespeople, vehicle manufacturers, sales channels, regions, countries, workshops, warehouses, and products. Users can decide on the rough or fine level of forecasting based solely on actual needs.
At the same time, the standard sales management process helps enterprises to reasonably arrange workshop production capacity, purchase raw materials, and start production in a timely manner while formulating plans, ensuring delivery time.
Production plan
In addition to producing according to orders, automobile parts companies also have predicted production demands. Therefore, according to the quantity of sales forecast orders and the development of reasonable production plans, inventory preparation, etc., become the basis for automobile parts companies to make good production plans.
The plan has added a batch demand planning subsystem to better prepare production plans and material procurement plans for products and semi-finished products at each stage according to orders, and reasonably schedule production based on product or equipment capacity, improving the enforceability of production plans.
Satisfying the planned production and order taking production modes, through data support and rigorous calculation logic, greatly improves work efficiency and data accuracy, helps to improve customer satisfaction, and brings greater benefits to the enterprise.
Manufacturing Execution
We have built some business functions of MES on SAP to meet the problems of delayed order execution, scattered processes, rough production capacity, and low production efficiency in the production execution process of automotive parts enterprises, and to improve the production efficiency of workshop operations.
Strengthen workshop operation planning, allocate personnel and working hours reasonably, provide timely and accurate production feedback, ensure transparency of production data and progress, and improve the completion rate of production plans and product delivery times.
By using barcode technology to track the entire production process from material production to finished product warehousing, all events that occur during the production process are collected in real-time, making the entire workshop completely transparent.
Make the product clear and transparent throughout the entire production process, quickly identify the causes of quality problems, develop targeted measures to solve quality bottlenecks, achieve product quality traceability, and reduce quality costs.
Real time recording and monitoring of production processes and processing task completion, personnel work efficiency, labor productivity, equipment utilization, product qualification rate, scrap rate, etc. Through the system's comprehensive statistical information query function, problems in the execution process are promptly identified and improved.
Quality traceability
We have established a complete quality management and traceability process, controlling orders from various business nodes such as raw material procurement, in transit, production, warehousing, and outbound. We can trace every step of automotive parts, visualize and transparent product quality, track the source, determine responsibility, and help automotive parts enterprises respond more quickly to the requirements and standards of the entire vehicle factory.
Electronic and data-driven quality result recording, improving and replacing the current manual and paper-based quality ledger model. Barcode labels run through the entire business chain of components from raw material procurement to finished products. Barcodes are used to record quality inspection results, and the system can trace the results at any time, improving work efficiency.
Establish a comprehensive quality system and fully integrate it into various business processes, strictly control quality issues in each link to ensure product quality. For quality accidents, data-driven business processes can be traced back to each business node, quality analysis can be conducted, corrective and preventive measures can be proposed, and improvements can be made, ultimately achieving the goal of product quality improvement.
Establish an after-sales support system to promptly respond to vehicle manufacturers' issues and provide response support, including return and exchange plans, repairs, recalls, improvements, etc.
Costing
Clearly monitor the business processes of automotive parts enterprises from sales to research and development, procurement to production, and from warehousing to outbound, helping them obtain refined cost information, effectively saving and controlling operating costs, and applying more funds to product research and development and expanding operations.
Divide costs into: material costs, labor costs, manufacturing expenses, and processing expenses. The cost calculation method adopts a batch and step by step approach, and provides flexible settings for the allocation of labor and expenses to adapt to various complex situations. It provides clear data support for various expenses generated in various business processes, freeing financial personnel from complex manual tasks such as data collection and cost allocation, providing cost information to managers faster and more accurately, and improving the level of enterprise management decision-making.
With the flexible data reporting and business analysis suite of SAP ERP, enterprises can achieve visualization of production cost data. With the help of reports, effective control can be achieved at the level of cost analysis and gross profit analysis, and real-time input and output of each task can be obtained.
Intelligent warehousing
We have preliminarily constructed WMS intelligent warehousing, which achieves refined inventory management through docking with equipment such as PDAs, barcode guns, inventory machines, and various transportation equipment, thereby optimizing the procurement process and improving inventory accuracy.
Innovative integration of barcode labels and RFID technology, with intelligent devices throughout the entire logistics process, enables products to be data-driven and intelligently controlled.
Establish application scenarios for automated equipment such as three-dimensional shelves/containers, and achieve the solution of "shelves+robots=automated warehousing material system" through information technologies such as sub parent vehicle system, four-way shuttle vehicle technology, multi-layer shuttle vehicle technology, ground four-way light 2 heavy-duty AGV technology, cargo to person picking system, WMS (warehouse management system) software, WCS (warehouse control system) system, etc.
Light intelligent manufacturing scene
Combined with the related research and business practice of SAP for intelligent manufacturing and intelligent workshop, the TransInfo R & D center is based on SAP system and oriented to small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises, helping small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises to build light intelligent manufacturing application scenarios at affordable costs, and bridging multiple automation equipment and data centers with the help of SAP Leonardo innovative solutions.
• SAP's solution for Industrial Internet
Omni-channel solution (Hybris) / Core Operations Management (SAP S/ 4 HANA ERP) / Agile R & D Management (PLM) / Intelligent Manufacturing solution (ME/MII).
• SAP's solutions for the external Internet of things
SAP HANA Cloud platform / big data Predictive Analysis / SAP Leonardo Internet of things solution.
The combination of SAP Leonardo and related intelligent manufacturing hardware equipment: Siemens / Panasonic / Foxconn / Honeywell, etc.
Supply chain collaboration acceleration
Establish an efficient supply chain coordination mechanism for auto parts enterprises, formulate supplier management strategies, greatly improve procurement efficiency and business coordination, and avoid order delays.
Fully integrated business processes
Fully integrate business and finance for auto parts enterprises, improve business processing efficiency and service level, respond quickly to customer needs, and create loyal customer groups.
Realize refined cost accounting
Create the actual cost accounting system for auto parts enterprises, refine the accounting cost composition and visual analysis, and provide accurate data support for enterprise business decisions.
Improve the level of corporate compliance control
Improve the level of compliance management and control of enterprises, lay a good digital foundation for further development and expansion, and achieve sustainable compliance development of enterprises.
For over 10 years, TransInfo has provided digital transformation services to over 600 enterprises
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