Overcoming New Cost and Delivery Challenges

As an automotive supplier, you face ever-increasing pressure from your customers to reduce price. You must balance the cost of carrying inventory against having the scheduling flexibility to respond to swings in demand that leave lines idle.

Traditional lean manufacturing techniques may have squeezed much of the cost out of your facilities, but now you need to go further. You are looking for proven solutions that rapidly improve cash flow, profitability, and capital utilization, without impacting customer service or increasing your administration costs.

You can’t afford the time, cost, or service impact of less-than-successful change. This requires collaborative processes and technologies that increase visibility across all aspects of the business and throughout your supply chain - from receipt of a customer release through demand communication to your suppliers.

Accelerating Operational Efficiencies
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne solutions enable you and your customers, suppliers, and service providers to really connect and respond to the changes that are inevitable in your business environment.

You can rapidly realize lasting improvements throughout your enterprise and throughout the entire buy/build/deliver/source cycle with the following full range of integrated business capabilities:

• Demand collaboration
• Aftermarket sales orders
• Warehouse management
• Production and distribution planning
• Enterprise asset management
• Production scheduling
• Financial management
• Product data management
• Workforce management
• Requirements planning
• Business intelligence
• Shop floor control
• Release accounting

You choose the scope of the solution to meet your top-priority business goals. No matter how you design your solution, you’ll gain measurable results quickly.

Improved Cash Flow and Asset Utilization JD Edwards EnterpriseOne solutions help you optimise the levels of inventory for customer service as well as eliminate shortage-related late deliveries. You are able to maximize ROI on production facilities, rationalize supply chains, and model vendor-managed inventory for reduced inventory cost. Overall, you’ll gain the increased visibility you need to better respond, build your product, and buy materials.

You’ll know with real-time accuracy what your inventory is, where it is, where it needs to be, and when it needs to be there.

A leading automotive manufacturer states, "The driving factor for our move to JD Edwards® EnterpriseOne was to capitalize on the inventory management capability across the entire manufacturing environment. We are a manufacturing and logistics company and the JD Edwards® EnterpriseOne solution enabled us to reduce inventory, eliminate redundancies and integrate other systems with our ERP to achieve great, new things."

Increased Productivity and Operational Efficiency
With the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne planning and supply chain execution software capabilities, you and your suppliers can identify and reduce risks before they impact your deliveries. Automated alerts allow you to respond faster and more accurately. And, with self-service capabilities, you can link to your suppliers that can’t afford full-scale systems for collaboration. Complementing these tools for reducing inventory cost are accounting tools that reduce the risk of late deliveries and the cost of maintaining an in-house-developed front end.

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne solutions are providing these types of results to automotive suppliers around the world, for all types of manufacturing processes, whether discrete work order, repetitive, process manufacturing, or lean/kanban. No matter how your processes work, we can help you achieve significant financial benefits, without risk to your business.

Partnering for the Long Term
Your relationship with InOne doesn’t end when you sign the contract. In fact, that is when our relationship really gets started. InOne is totally committed to your long-term satisfaction and business success. We continually enhance the value of our solutions, not only with software research and development, but also with superior consulting, education, and training support. In order to help you see the most significant return on investment, our service organization is here to help you:

• Implement your solution quickly and effectively
• Fully utilize your JD Edwards EnterpriseOne system
• Get your employees up to speed with in-depth, job-specific training
• Provide self-service and live support when you need it
• Maintain and grow the value of your technology asset

We at InOne believe that it’s our business to make it easy for you to do business. By adopting InOne as your long-term business partner, you will see shorter time-to-benefit and lower total cost of ownership. And, because our solutions grow and change with your business, your technologyinvestment is an asset that increases in value over time.