Synchronize demand with supply on a weekly, daily and often hourly basis by opening up the visibility to supply and demand. Deliver the transparency needed into inventory, product availability, and demand while helping to lower costs by supporting lean implementations. Enable your people to make faster and better decisions on how to react to the ever-changing market by providing real time, industry specific key performance indicators (KPIs). Microsoft Dynamics AX for automotive can also help your people to efficiently track and trace products to support government regulations such as the transportation recall enhancement, accountability, and documentation (TREAD) act.

Supply and demand chain transparency

Synchronize demand data with supplier and production availability. Utilizing this data to more effectively forecast need and schedule production is critical to your bottom line. By using familiar desktop tools, your staff will be ready to make fast and accurate decisions based on changes in demand or disruptions in supply.

Support multiple release accounting styles

Enable multiple release accounting styles to integrate and support many different original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and suppliers. By integrating shipping information directly to your accounting software, your staff will be able to lower costs and improve customer service.

Real time production scheduling

Support of a "pull" system by your software can make or break its success. Microsoft Dynamics AX allows you to set up powerful pull methodology and support it with real time notifications of production or demand changes, therefore enabling your people to react quickly and keep costs low.

Lean manufacturing enablement

Saying you are going to be lean is one thing however, implementing lean processes is another. Staying lean for the long haul requires software that supports your lean business processes and makes it easy for your staff to work with the system, not around it. Microsoft Dynamics AX directly supports the processes and practices required to embed "lean" into the daily schedule of everyone.

Improve operational efficiency

Streamline operations on the shop floor and beyond—including research and development, administration, product life-cycle management and customer service—by automating processes and integrating project, customer and financial information. Bid and execute contracts effectively to reduce the time needed to procure materials and manufacture or assemble products. By streamlining product development, manufacturing, sales, customer service, and delivery, your business can improve design, control costs, monitor quality, and serve customers effectively.

Support global design teams

Shorten time to market for new product innovations by integrating processes and managing automotive programs effectively. By enabling global collaboration of design, integrating innovation into the manufacturing process and collaborating effectively - with suppliers, partners, and customers, your staff can deliver lower cost products more quickly and enhance customer satisfaction.

Control your processes from start to finish

Track items from the time of materials purchase to the time of production and sale with lot and location control. Retrieve data easily to respond to recall notices or queries about how the item was engineered and where it is currently in use.

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