synergize strategies for greater success in automotive

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Synergize Strategies for Greater Success in AutomotiveStu JohnsonProduct Marketing DirectorPlex Systems


Topics

• Connect the business with the business of manufacturing for better collaboration

• Control the shop floor to increase productivity• Unlock more potential by refocusing IT resources• Transform the business for faster,

more confident decision-making

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Manufacturing Complexity is Growing

Source: CIO Survey, IDG, January 2016

Complexity

See increase in complexity in their organization’s ERP ecosystem

Source: CIO Survey, IDG, January 2016

70%


Today It’s All About Digital Transformation – LNS Research

From Michael Porter at the Harvard Business School, to U Penn’s Wharton School of Business there is a growing consensus that Digital Transformation is

not only real; it is imminent and inevitable.

https://hbr.org/2014/11/how-smart-connected-products-are-transforming-competition

http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/


What Does Digital Transformation Mean to Automotive Manufacturers?


Why Plex? Enable Financial + Operational + IT Strategies

Business Strategy

Operational Strategy • Control production to increase productivity

• Reduce IT spend and unleash the value of data

• Connect everyone and everything to win more business

IT Strategy


Basic Operational Strategy

Raw Material Production Quality Shipping

• Convert raw materials from suppliers into finished goods delivered to customers

• Optimize processes for greatest efficiency

• Delight customer with on-time delivery and world class quality

• Continuously improve to increase capacity and/or margins

Supplier Customer


Basic Business Strategy

SalesProcurement Finance

CEO

• Minimize supplier spend• Minimize excess inventory

• Maximize revenue and customer value• Keep and grow customer business


+ Financial Strategy

• Business and Manufacturing are separate functions

Business Drives Operations

• Poor visibility between top floor and manufacturing

Inventory Production Quality Shipping


Basic IT Strategy

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ITERP • Version-based, software/hardware• Multi-database jigsaw puzzle• Finance-focused ERP

• Typically business focused• Manufacturing is an afterthought• Bolt on solutions for individual functions

MES QMS


“The truth was we had outgrown our best-of-breed solution, especially some of the core systems like EDI and peripheral ones like HR,” she continues. “Our main ERP provider was also taking a different strategic direction to us, which really kick-started our search for a replacement solution.”

Molly Hunting, Director of IT


Plex for Operational StrategyControl the Shop Floor


Operational Strategy w/ Plex – Control the Shop Floor

High-resolution Traceability• Increase inventory accuracy

and turns• Reduce inventory levels/costs• Reduce exposure of recalls


Real-time Control• Minimize errors with error-proofing

• Automate to reduce wasted effort

• Increase accuracy/yields/throughput


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Production Data Back to the Business

Operational Data In to Workcenters


FMEACONTROL PLAN

SPCIFICATION

PPAP DOCSONLINE

Integrated, Database-driven Quality• Operationalize quality compliance

• Respond in real-time w/ SPC

• On-line docs to speed audits


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½ an HourExpected productivity gain in supply chain

3With Plex, Accuride can ship

inventory within 3 hours

Customer Success – Accuride

IndustryCommercial Vehicle Parts Manufacturer. Tier 1 supplier of wheels and wheel end solutions

“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 WrightAccuride, Director IT

10%Hardware requisitions can now be effected in just half an hour rather than a number of days


Plex for IT StrategyUnleash the Potential of IT with the Manufacturing Cloud


IT Strategy w/ Plex

Unlock the Potential of IT

• Move IT costs/burden to cloud

• Data stored in a single source of truth

• Focus IT on Business versus HW & SW

Scale to Changing Needs

• Keep on the latest technology

• Update regularly w/o disruptive upgrades

• Unlimited users across value chain

IT Biz/Data Analysts

ERP


Customer Success – Clips & ClampsIndustry

Automotive metal former since 1954

“Not having to pay upgrade costs for our old systems made Plex a break-even investment. When balanced against our cost avoidance, the launch of Plex cost us nothing and we had an immediate ROI. Who could argue with that?” Jeff Aznavorian, Vice President and General Manager

ROIImmediate ROI by eliminating upgrades

6 1Replaced 6 disparate systems with a single integrated manufacturing ERP

ERP+MES+CRMIntegration And ease-of-use


Plex for Business StrategyConnect the Business to Everyone and Everything


Business Strategy w/ Plex

Connect Your Equipment• Real-time information to the business

• Enable real-time costing

• Improve efficiency with mobility

Connect Your People• Reduce manual re-entry

• Eliminate multiple EDI vendors

• Improve on-time delivery

Connect to Other Software• Connect to corporate ERP

• Maximize ROI w/ technology

• Easily build custom solutions

Make Production Data Visible to the Business

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Unified StrategyConnect Everyone & Everything

Connect the Business from Customers to SuppliersTo Mitigate Supply Chain Risk

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version of the real-time truth from shop-floor to top floor

8All 8 metal forming facilities

standardized on Plex

Customer Success – American Axle & ManufacturingIndustryAutomotive Parts Manufacturer. Tier 1 supplier of driveline and drivetrain systems

“We leverage Plex to more effectively integrate and collaborate 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 TrathenAAM, Sr. Manager VSM/Lean Systems

Visibility12 Months to replace all point solutions

across a large, geographically

distributed organization

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Plex Creates Business Value for Automotive Manufacturers

Control

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Unlock UNLOCK THE POTENTIAL OF PEOPLEInformed, engaged, and effective workforce

CONTROL THE SHOP FLOORReal-time visibility and control at the manufacturing moment

MAKE DECISIONS WITH CONFIDENCE AND SPEEDHolistic contextual view of the enterprise

CONNECT THE BUSINESS TO EVERYTHINGStreamlined communication, collaboration, and connectivity

Transform


• 100% Manufacturing ERP

• True multi-tenant cloud

• Growth Investment: T Rowe Price, Francisco Partners, Accel Partners

• One code base, one version, one community

• Happiest ERP customers in history

530+ customers

95%+renewal rate

1,660+ facilities

22 countries

99.9%+ up-time

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