To profit in a market defined by tight production schedules, compliance mandates, and customer demand for quality at the lowest price, you've got to focus on efficiency. The challenge of producing and delivering exactly what your customers need – on time, within budget, and to spec – means you need to:

• Increase visibility to ensure manufacturing throughput; improve decision making from shop floor to top floor, and effectively monitor schedule attainment
• Balance inventory and production plans against multiple customer demands and requirements
• Implement lean initiatives to reduce waste and add customer value
• Consolidate and standardize business processes across the company to reduce cost and drive efficiencies
• Divest, merge, or acquire new companies, manufacturing sites, and product lines when the time is right
• Identify new business opportunities, and enter new markets quickly and affordably

SAP solutions give businesses like yours the visibility, integration, and process support required to fine-tune production lines, gain operational efficiencies, and grow profits quickly. In fact, over 1,600 automotive companies run SAP solutions. And it may interest you to know that 65% of SAP customers are midsize companies.

SAP can help you:

• Monitor, measure, and control demand variability and, ultimately, schedule attainment – with decisions based on real-time information and key performance indicators
• Achieve a more responsive production and distribution plan, with a consolidated view across all plants
• Enable a streamlined and synchronous material flow to ensure delivery with precision
• Reduce inventory based on pull-based replenishment with alerts in place at specified inventory levels
• Support mixed-mode manufacturing, including repetitive, MTO, lean, flow, and forecast-driven processes
• Support a 'zero defects' level of quality
• Address a full range of reporting requirements, including Sarbanes-Oxley and Basel II; global trade and customs rules; and environment, health, and safety regulations (IMDS)
• Track detailed data for compliance with product, manufacturing, and industry standards, including ISO/TS 16949, MMOG, and TREAD
• Identify emerging market opportunities
• Quickly assimilate acquired operations, including people, processes, and information
• Adopt and deploy back-office processes – through departments such as shared service centers – to support growth

Read about our customers:

• GRAMMER
• Holland Group
• KEIPER
• Kissling Elektrotechnik
• Kongsberg Automotive
• RSG Elotech
• S-Y Systems Technologies
• YAPP Automotive Parts