Automotive Supply Chain
Eliminate shipping errors, control inventory and improve supply chain management.
In today’s supply chains, collaborating with trading partners, optimizing internal processes and controlling costs have never been more critical. Suppliers face high customer expectations and pay a high price for failing to meet those expectations. Hundreds of plants in the automotive supply chain rely on Solarsoft to help them meet the most exacting customer requirements.
Solarsoft allows you to integrate your supply chain, so every change in your customer’s business immediately and seamlessly ripples through to your business and your suppliers. That level of supply chain control is a function of the timeliness and quality of the information collected from the shop floor and shared within your enterprise and with your trading partners. Solarsoft provides that control with a robust and integrated ERP solution designed specifically for the automotive industry.
Key Benefits
- Better inventory accuracy
- Improved productivity and plant utilization
- Seamless integration with customers and suppliers
Solarsoft offers manufacturers an integrated enterprise system specifically developed to meet the performance needs of medium sized businesses in automotive industries.
We take care of financials, production and inventory of course, but we understand the need to add value across all operations from quotations and configuration through to dispatch and delivery. With built-in support for shop floor data collection and supply chain integration, Solarsoft will help bring clarity and efficiency to all your operations. Based on our proven iVP platform, our manufacturing software is rapidly installed and easy to learn. Our software will deliver value from day one.
EDI and Release Accounting
Supports EDI transaction sets for thousands of companies, including all major automotive OEM’s, major retail chains, distributors, and manufacturers. Solarsoft iVP provides a complete solution to meet the strict demands placed on our customers to meet supply chain requirements. EDI/Order Releasing, Shipping Management and Vendor Releasing are all components handled in Solarsoft iVP Release Accounting module.
- Trading partners Master File
- Vendor Releasing
- Material Releasing / Shipping Schedules
- Advanced Shipping Notices (ASN)
- Inline Vehicle Sequencing (ILVS)
- Material Releasing / Shipping Schedules
Sales Orders
Our goal for sales order processing is to maximize the value of each customer contact. Rich order entry screens with catalogue images and data sheets and available-to-promise data for each line item help your sales team become expert advisers
Rapid access to historic orders accelerates entry for repeat business while a product configurator allows make-to-order quotations to be prepared accurately and easily.
Online account service using the Web Sales Option rounds out the full-service using the Web Sales Option rounds out the full-service offering for your customers.
- Smart product search for fast, accurate order entry
- Flexible product configurator for custom builds and quotations
- Multiple price books with flexible discounts and breaks
- Forward stock allocation, delivery and drop shipment
E-Commerce & Supply Chain Integration
The traditional back-office focus of ERP is a thing of the past. Modern enterprise software must be open and easily connected to systems across the organization and up and down the supply chain. Solarsoft has deep experience in traditional EDI messaging which is built to our manufacturing software. What’s more, the open services architecture supports modern XML based web services for low cost and maximum flexibility. Our manufacturing software can be set up to automate supply chain operations including:
- Catalogue feeds from suppliers and to customers
- Supplier and customer order entry and confirmation
- Invoice and payment confirmation
- Advanced shipment notices
- Statements and account enquires
- Gateway to Microsoft CRM
Production Management
The graphical production planning workbench gives production managers a clear and accurate view of current and planned utilization across plants and cost centers:
- Multiple capacity plans with drill down to individual machines and operators
- Drag and drop control over production schedules
- Multiple methods of manufacture and flexible BOM and Process Configurations
- Touch screen shop floor data collection for accurate, real-time production reporting
- Integrated barcode labeling and support for warehouse automation using wireless readers
- Real-time machine monitoring options
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