STRATEGIES FOR
AUTOMOTIVE
SUPPLIERS
Gain More Operational
Control of the Shop Floor
STRATEGY 1
Increased Productivity + Inventory Accuracy
= INCREASED CAPACITY
100%
Reduced inventory on-hand and doubled inventory turns for greater working capital.
Less Scrap and Waste + Operationalized Quality Compliance
= REDUCED COST
30%
Improved efficiency and reduced expedite and premium freight costs.
Built-in Automotive Processes + Continuous Improvement
= INCREASED BUSINESS
50%
Increased business without adding production personnel.
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Gain Control with the Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform
Dramatically increase inventory turns. Reduce scrap with built-in error proofing. Reduce risk of non-compliance. Isolate and reduce the risk of recalls with end-to-end traceability.
“Paying premium freight used to be a huge expense for us. It amounted to about 0.7% of our total sales. With Plex, we’ve basically eliminated those costs in just two years, while achieving nearly 100% on-time delivery for our customers.”
EDUARDO ARANA
Deputy Managing Director
Eurotranciatura Mexico
ACHIEVE
OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE
ON YOUR SHOP FLOOR
“Plex’s biggest strength is its ability to integrate our manufacturing plants in the United States and Mexico. We are considerably more efficient after integrating PLCs, allowing our operators to function with less manual interaction.”
SAM WINTZ
IT Manager
Batesville Tool & Die
“Plex’s document control system was instrumental in helping us get a perfect IATF score. The way our inventory controls are linked to controls within Plex is what made it easy for us to qualify.”
JEFF BENDER
Materials Manager
Coastal Automotive
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STRATEGY 2
Connect Your People, Processes, and Machines for End-to-End Visibility
CxOs
Executives rely on Plex for real-time data to drive faster, more confident decisions.
• Easily stand up or shutter plants for right-sourcing to meet changing demand
• Shorten cash-to-cash cycle with visibility to customer demand, production schedules, and dynamic costing.
• Mitgate the risk of recalls with accurate traceability information at your fingertips.
Operations
Uses Plex to understand costs, optimize schedules, and eliminate waste.
• Effectively launch more successful programs to respond to changing customer needs.
• Reduce the time and cost of customer compliance with a world class quality “operating system.”
• Quickly react to change with access to a single source of data at anytime from anywhere on any connected device.
Supply Chain Managers
Count on Plex for real-time information to better mitigate the risk of supply chain disruptions.
• Improve collaboration and visibility with a robust supplier portal (at no cost to your suppliers).
• Easily comply with EDI requirements with a solution that is built-in, not bolted on.
• Manage supplier quality by sharing access at no additional cost.
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The Benefits of End-to-
End Business Visibility
Align your business with manufacturing operations. Improve financial visibility to drive profitability. Enable more lean operations with a single source of truth. Improve quote win-loss ratios. Mitigate the risks of supply chain disruptions.
“Plex more effectively integrates and collaborates with our supplier base. Plex supplier portal helps us collaborate with suppliers to manage supplier container creation, labeling and shipments as well as supplier quality…”
MICHAEL TRATHEN
Sr. Manager VSM/Lean Systems
American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc
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PURPOSE-BUILT FOR
AUTOMOTIVE
MANUFACTURING
SUPPLIERS
“Plex has played a huge role in helping us to consolidate and transform the performance of our business, making us a super-efficient manufacturer across our product range. Our customers are happy, we have secured our place in the market and our bottom line is healthy.”
PAUL WRIGHT
Chief Information Officer and SVP, Information Technology
Accuride International, Inc.
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STRATEGY 3
Unleash the Power
and Flexibility of Smart
Manufacturing
No software to install or maintain + No downtime to install upgrades + Customer & Supplier Portals
= INFINITE SCALABILITY
IT-Enabled Business Improvement + Scalable, Extensible Cloud Platform + IT Data Analysts
= HIGHER VALUE FROM
IT INVESTMENTS
Subscription vs. Capital Expense + Included EDI, Labeling & Barcoding + Unlimited users, suppliers, & customers
= SIMPLE PRICING MODEL
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The Plex Smart
Manufacturing Platform
by the Numbers
Jagemann Stamping Company
saved $200,000 in IT costs.
Clips & Clamps
6 replaced systems with Plex. 0 upgrade costs.
Coastal Automotive
22 streamlined compliance audit time from
DAYS to HOURS.
“If there is a quality issue, responses are fully integrated across the entire supply chain. Suppliers don’t have to enter their quality information into a separate system to develop their metrics.”
MIKE GERBER
IT Director
Fluid Routing Systems
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LOWER YOUR TOTAL
COST OF OWNERSHIP
“Because Plex delivers so much functionality right out of the box, we were able to eliminate a long list of purchased and homegrown systems when we went live. This will empower us to keep growing without burdening our IT staff in the future.”
MIKE ZUIDERVEEN
Senior Manager, IT
Motus Integrated Technologies
“Plex has simplified data gathering and data management at all levels of our enterprise, allowing savings in time and resources. We are no longer chasing data from one source to another. It is now readily available to help us make informed and proactive decisions.”
ARVEL WOOTEN
Organizational Development Specialist
Hatch Stamping Company
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ARE YOU READY TO RUN YOUR BUSINESS
SMARTER?
CONNECT
people, systems, machines, and supply chains
AUTOMATE
business processes
TRACK
data from the shop floor to the top floor
ANALYZE
what matters most and drive more informed decision making
The Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform helps automotive suppliers, like you, run an efficient business and deliver on customer demands.
Learn more at
www.plex.com/industries/automotive
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