Reduced Costs, Increased Efficiency: Coforge Optimizes Supply Chain for Leading Heavy Vehicle Manufacturer
Overview.
Coforge helped a leading manufacturer of custom heavy-duty commercial vehicles to transform their supply chain operations. We implemented a centralized application that acts as a single source of truth. This allows them to create stock replenishment requests, track inventory levels, and manage internal material transfers and purchase orders to address shortages. This streamlined approach dramatically improved transaction times, going from 90 minutes to under 1 minute.
Our client is the leading custom heavy-duty commercial vehicle manufacturer headquartered in Portland
Corporate and Plant materials teams arrive and immediately view and manage work priorities, urgency and impact based on role-specific log-ons in one centralized application, through standardized workflows utilizing automated decision functionality
Solution
A centralized portal application to consolidate daily work for users leading to more productivity and efficiency as new system handles the processing of information and helps users to decide by presenting facts
A single source to create stock replenishment requests, track and resolve through various means including internal material transfers and sending an order to fulfill shortage
E-mail notifications to suppliers and planners, 360-degree view of shortages, automated user account creation and role assignment, collaboration & mobility
The Impact
Improved transaction times – from 90 minutes to under 1 minute
Reduced onboarding/training time for new employees
Standardized and improved supply chain management
Reduction in systematic touches to identify ‘what do I need to do today?’
Streamlined communication (less emails) between Plant Material Planners / Corp
