Industrial & Automotive

Globalization has led to stiff price competition and consequent shrinking margins. The push towards outsourcing and delocalization has made Supply Chain operations more complex. Market calls for innovation, tailor-made products and timely deliveries are all viewed as imperatives. As such the industry is facing challenges which largely fall into 5 areas: Globalisation, product differentiation, product development, Supply Chain reorganization, and marketing and distribution. With a focus on delivering customer value, organisation are rethinking and re-evaluating their processes and trying to remain ahead of the competition whilst keeping and capturing consumers.

TXTPERFORM2008 helps industrial and automotive companies tackle their unique challenges with an exclusive combination of Supply Chain performance management and Supply chain planning capabilities spanning all of their critical processes:

• Demand Forecasting and Planning
• Order Dating
• Production Planning
• Scheduling and progress monitoring
• Supplier Collaboration

This combination of functionality together with a framework of correlating metrics helps timely identification of possible issues, and enables you to choose and apply the best planning scenario and ultimately have clear understanding of the implications of these decisions on both operational and financial KPIs. While planning, multiple what-if alternatives can be assessed thus taking into account variables such as inventory costs, diverse production and distribution alternatives as well as impact on profitability to always determine the best tradeoffs.

In managing Supply Chain processes end-to-end from demand forecasting down to production optimization and progress monitoring, TXTPERFORM2008 tackles the typical issues of each Industrial & Automotive business: