| Automotive
Industry Solution |
Automobile manufacturers constantly strive to launch
their products quickly and bring new vehicles to market
faster to reduce engineering and development costs. They
aim to provide their customers with vehicles that offer
higher quality and lower maintenance costs and try to include
distinctive features based on latest technologies. Similarly,
suppliers strive to keep their costs down and meet the growing
demands of the OEMs. Automotive industry has tried to increase
collaboration and reduce cost of information sharing by
creating an industry standards organization called AIAG
- Automotive Industry Action Group. AIAG's primary goals
are to reduce cost and complexity within the automotive
supply chain and to improve speed-to-market, product quality,
employee health-and-safety and the environment. AIAG has
specified numerous standards including Advanced Product
Quality Planning (APQP).
Automotive industry challenges
The automotive industry today is better
equipped than ever, however the following challenges still
remain:
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In order to stay competitive, original
manufacturers and Tier 1 assemblers must accelerate
time to market and improve product quality while reducing
risks and costs
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Ensure successful product launch by
enabling collaboration of cross-functional customer/supplier
teams to share current product and process information,
and to analyze part readiness status
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Industry-standard APQP process remains
manual and cumbersome due to lack of integration between
OEMs and suppliers
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Multi-tier supply networks are unable
to integrate Lean Production techniques into existing
assembler and supplier companies, which increases manufacturing
cost
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Existing technological and knowledge-based
(under utilized organizational data) strengths are not
capitalized to the fullest
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Dealers filter or tamper the crucial
customer data before passing it to manufacturers
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Manufacturers' customer relationships
remain unknown as there is little direct interaction
between manufacturers and customers
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Its five times more expensive to get
a new customer than to retain an existing one
Aiming at the above challenges, Adeptia has
developed focused functionality to deliver comprehensive solution
and assured benefits.
View the solution and its benefits (Integration
Acceleration Solution)
Adeptia BPM solution helps meet these
automotive industry challenges
Adeptia has partnered
with Powerway Inc. (www.powerwayinc.com)
to deliver an effective and automated Integration Acceleration
Solution (IAS) to facilitate seamless connectivity between
OEMs, Tier 1 and other suppliers by:
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Allows integration of business processes
across the supply chain using loosely coupled architecture
that delivers SOA, Web Services
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Integrates data irrespective of technological
incompatibility through robust data integration capabilities
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Automates implementation of APQP processes
using prebuilt data transformation schemas
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Allows designing and automation of end-to-end
person-to-person processes using BPMN based visual Process
Designer
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Automates uploading of customers data
from dealers using ETL technology and process monitoring
capabilities
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Allow users to self-manage through flawless
reporting functionality
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Allows tracking of coordination, negotiation
and commitment that take place across the supply chain
through business monitoring and reporting functionality
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Reduces human intervention and human errors
as a result of streamlining and automation of business
processes
Benefits of Adeptia solution
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Reduced IT expenditure by increasing life
span of existing systems
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Manages, automates and optimizes supply
chain processes
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Timely revelation and delivery of relevant
information to decision makers, improves decision making
power
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Reduced manufacturing and operational
costs as a result of automation and transparency of process
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Improved ability to retain customers due
to availability of customer data
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Better ability to adopt new automotive
technology with improved product quality thus enhancing
profitability
Adeptia BPM
solution has been deployed by Fortune 10 automobile manufacturers.
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