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MRP Software For Automotive Suppliers
Demand arrives as a schedule that changes, not as an order that stays still.
Operational Characteristics
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Demand arrives as a call-off schedule against a contract, revised regularly, rather than as a discrete purchase order per delivery.
- 2.
Quantities are tracked cumulatively. What matters is the running balance against the contract, not the figure on any one release.
- 3.
Delivery performance is measured by the customer and fed back, so a late despatch is a scored event rather than a private inconvenience.
- 4.
Traceability back to material lot and process is expected to be produced on request, for parts delivered years earlier.
Common Control Gaps
Schedules Re-Entered By Hand
A revised call-off arrives and somebody retypes it. The version the plan is working to and the version the customer sent drift apart quietly.
Cumulative Balances Reconciled Monthly
The running total is rebuilt in a spreadsheet at month end. Between those rebuilds, over-delivery and under-delivery are both invisible.
Evidence Assembled At Audit Time
The records exist across despatch notes, certificates and inspection sheets. Pulling one part number’s history together takes a day that doing the work should already have paid for.
Packaging And Labelling Handled Off-System
Customer-specific labels and returnable packaging are managed on a separate list. A despatch can be correct in the system and still be turned away at the gate.
Relevant Capabilities
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Enquiry, quotation and sales order
Demand is held as order lines with their own promised dates, so a revision changes the plan rather than requiring it to be rebuilt. - 2.
Quality and traceability
Lot and heat provenance from goods receipt to despatch, with certificates attached to the job, is in Core. Inspection records are in Factory and above. - 3.
Despatch and logistics
Consignments, notes and certificates are produced from the job record, so what left the building and when is a fact rather than a reconstruction.
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