Apriso's Automotive Supplier Solutions:

Maximize Utilization as Product Complexity Grows

Automakers have embraced the concept of global vehicle platforms that support multiple ‘top hats’ as a method by which to achieve both economy of scale and market-demand responsiveness. For Automotive Suppliers, this requires manufacturing operations precisely synchronized to the pull signals of multiple OEM customers yet flexible enough to support sudden production shifts dictated by market changes or unplanned events. This complexity must then be balanced to provide maximum capacity utilization at both the plant and enterprise manufacturing levels in support of profitability.

Apriso’s FlexNet helps you to address these challenges by providing a comprehensive manufacturing platform that uniquely enables the necessary visibility and control to achieve manufacturing excellence. Apriso enables you to improve global synchronization of production and materials, increase throughput and plant capacity utilization, maximize First-Time Quality rates and accelerate time to global market. Apriso’s professional services team and alliance partner network helps Automotive Suppliers to replace disparate, silo-based systems with a unified platform for greater operational efficiency over global manufacturing and supply chain operations.

The Solution for Today’s Automotive Supplier Manufacturing Industry

As product complexity increases and new market opportunities grow, winning as an Automotive Supplier requires partnering with a proven company that can leverage industry best practices while supporting process flexibility. Apriso’s industry solutions deliver visibility and control across manufacturing operations and the supply chain, enabling multiple improvement strategies and process improvements from a single platform.

Improve Manufacturing Efficiency

Synchronize material flows, machines, operators and processes at the business process level to increase both manufacturing performance and customer responsiveness
Accelerate time-to-market and time-to-volume with common, best practice processes consistently utilized across your manufacturing enterprise
Enable Just-in-Time (JIT) and Sequenced JIT manufacturing and shipment strategies based on customer ‘pull’ signals

Deliver Quality Across the Enterprise

Identify, hold and dispose defect "spills" across your manufacturing network in hours, rather than days or months
Insure compliance with industry and customer process standards, including ISO TS-16949, APQP and PPAP, among others
Reduce time-to-volume in emerging markets and insure quality consistency with proven best practice processes enhanced by any level of native language GUI-based Work Instructions

Increase Responsiveness

Accelerate New Product Introduction (NPI) cycle time with rapid, incremental process updates
Streamline ECO updates in manufacturing with tight integration to PLM
Establish COE operations for better visibility into high-performance operations, capturing best practice processes for distribution to other site

With Apriso, you have the widest possible footprint for management visibility — across your entire enterprise. Performance is optimized across all aspects of the extended value chain, including your people, materials, machines and processes, as well as those of your suppliers. By transferring real-time data, signals, alerts, KPIs and business intelligence to and from any network location around the world, Apriso empowers manufacturers to respond quickly to strategy shifts, changing market conditions and unexpected events.

Some of the Automotive Supplier manufacturers that have chosen to implement an Apriso solution include: