Automotive

Supply Chain Planning for the Automotive industry involves the consideration of numerous challenges, including:

• Aftermarket sourcing
• Supplier lean initiatives
• Commodity cost analysis
• Managing to new demand customer preferences
• Commodity price volatility
• Managing cash to cash cycle times and working capital impacts
• Becoming demand driven
  

Many Supply Chain Guru® features have been designed to specifically support the challenges facing the Automotive industry. For instance, Network Optimization can be incorporated to determine distribution center structure and sourcing for the aftermarket business.

Inventory Optimization is used to identify stocking points upstream and downstream in the supply chain to optimize lean initiatives. Enterprise Simulation is often used to model commodity cost fluctuations to understand how overall profitability may be affected when key costs change.