Automotive Supply Chain

Improve Plant Utilization and Agility

Streamline operations to minimize warehouse costs. Optimize product planning to deliver the right product at the right time. Capture real-time shop floor data to maximize machine utilization and output. Improve processes and discover new opportunities through better management visibility into plant operations.

Improved Insight into Plant Operations

Epicor, formerly Solarsoft, provides manufacturing analytics and intelligent production control to help automotive manufacturers quickly shift production to meet changes in demand and rapidly respond to new opportunities. Our software collects real-time data from shop floor machines to help maximize the output of each piece of equipment and avoid problems before they occur. Epicor's graphical production planning workbench gives production managers a clear and accurate view of current and planned utilization across plants and cost centers.

Less Customization, Faster Deployment

Epicor delivers the benefit of over 25 years of experience working with over 2000 automotive plants. Our sales and service personnel have worked with companies just like yours to help them smoothly migrate from outdated ERP software packages. Our solutions provide deep out of the box functionality for automotive manufacturers to reduce the amount of expensive customization required and help get plants installed and running faster. Key features for automotive include:

• Thousands of EDI transaction sets include all major automotive OEM's
• Support for line side labeling
• Support for lot/Serial traceability
• Inline Vehicle Sequencing (ILVS)
• Advanced Shipping Notices (ASN)