Regardless of where you fit into the automotive manufacturing supply chain, the challenges are consistently difficult -- and growing.  How can you deliver more value to customers while increasing asset utilization? How can you improve the quality of demand forecasts and optimize manufacturing plans -- up and down the supply chain?  Let Adexa show you how, with real-time access to the full range of demand signals, supply sources, dependencies and decision constraints.  Adexa puts you in a position to rationalize capacity from a global perspective, implement accountable supply chain management principals and develop plans to get more from the automotive supply chain with less.

• Optimize Resource Investments -- Compare your financial KPIs and tie them into operational KPIs to ensure a response to opportunities and threats in a timely manner.

• Streamline Manufacturing -- Plan, schedule, and sequence production of complex components across multiple supply tiers.

• Improve Forecasting -- Consolidate forecasts from multiple OEMs and third-party forecasting services, factor in actual history, and temper the result with intuition.

• Consolidate Planning -- Integrate sales, inventory, and operations to establish a common language to communicate plans and update requirements across multiple enterprise and shop floor systems.

• Accelerate Response Times -- Monitor and update just-in-time planning with a real-time view of OEM schedules, plant operations, and supplier performance.

• Reduce Inventories -- Deploy lean manufacturing and kanban strategies based on precise, responsive forecasting.

• Optimize Product Designs -- Manage and schedule product lifecycles, accelerate new products, and optimize all lifecycle phases.  Optimally deploy engineering, CAD, and prototyping resources to complete critical projects.

• Enable Collaboration -- Deliver better information faster so trading partners can plan for demand fluctuations and operate proactively to help corporations achieve objectives.

• Measure, Monitor, Notify, and Adjust -- Use hundreds of pre-built, audit-ready approved KPIs across all departments and roles to stay continuously informed about all aspects of production.