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Outmaneuvering Your Competitors with the Plex Manufacturing Cloud

3 Reasons Why Automotive Manufacturing Suppliers Choose Plex

PLEX.COM/INDUSTRIES/AUTOMOTIVE | 855.534.8012

Reason #1

End-to-end Business Visibility

COOsUse Plex to understand costs, optimize

schedules, and eliminate waste.

Single system

+ Price pressure from customers

= OPPORTUNITIES FOR GREATER EFFICIENCY

CFOsCount on Plex for real-time information to better

manage business finances.

Integration of sales + shipping

+ AR + inventory

= GREATER EFFICIENCY AND LOWER COSTS

CEOsRely on Plex for single source organizational

data to drive informed decisions.

Real-time information

+ Shop floor to top floor view

= FASTER REACTION TIME


The Benefits of End-to-End Business Visibility

• Better understanding of costs.

• Ability to price products strategically.

• More competitive product pricing.

• Definite improvement in quote win-loss ratios.

• More business overall.

“The Plex Manufacturing Cloud’s unique balance of operational dexterity on the shop floor and complete set of business-ready ERP tools makes it the ideal solution for any manufacturing business.”

HOWARD HAUSERVice President, OperationsHiawatha Rubber


Automotive Manufacturing Insight Empowers Your Entire Enterprise

“Anyone (at the company) can find and display data about their job, print reports, and make decisions that will help the company operate better or faster. … the fact that management clearly trusts shop-floor workers with business data has improved morale—an unexpected bonus of … Plex.”

“As we continue to access meaningful data through Plex we will keep making better decisions. We know we will see improvements on an ongoing basis in every area of the company. The implementation of Plex coincided with a major cultural shift, and in many ways it helped foster the changes we needed. As we moved from a job-shop mentality to a brand mentality, we faced many challenges, but we now have the foundation for future success. Plex has played an integral role in getting us to this point.”


Reason #2

Manufacturing Agility with MES Excellence

Increased productivity

+ Shorter cycle times

= INCREASED CAPACITY

78%

Improvement of delivery performance in less than a year.

Less scrap and waste

+ Fewer returns

= REDUCED COST

92%

Fewer material cost discrepancies.

Increased capacity

+ Reduced cost

= INCREASED PROFITABILITY

78%

Improved OEM label accuracy.


The Benefits of Manufacturing Agility with MES Excellence

• 50 percent improvement in inventory turns.

• Error-proofing that results in reduced scrap.

• Preventative maintenance to increase equipment uptime.

• Ensure consistent high-quality part output.

“Our overall productivity has increased, and we are beating the Precision Metalforming Association (PMA) index to which we track our performance, in every single category.”

STEVE SPANIERSDirector of EngineeringMarwood Metal Fabrication


MES Agility Means Operational Excellence

“We’ve discovered that Plex is the only true ERP—as in ‘enterprise-wide’—solution. Everybody and their brother offers financials, but Plex is the only system that encompasses everything, including areas that we didn’t even have systems for but tracked through manual spreadsheets.”

“The Plex Manufacturing Cloud includes everything a manufacturing company needs. Integral–not integrated– production, inventory, and quality management drives productivity, avoids redundant data entry and achieves other efficiencies. PLC shop-floor integration improves communication and productivity.”


No hardware + No software updates + No IT staff to maintain

= LOWER IT OVERHEAD COSTS

No new software versions + No upgrade costs + Unlimited users

= INFINITE SCALABILITY

Reason #3

Flexible Cloud Business Model

Automotive Manufacturing Industry customers on the Value of the Plex Manufacturing Cloud.

Unlimited users + Unlimited customers + Unlimited suppliers

= SIMPLE PRICING MODEL

“If there is a quality issue, responses are fully integrated across the entire supply chain.”

MIKE GERBER Fluid Routing

“Not having to pay upgrade costs for our old systems made Plex a break-even investment.”

JEFF AZNAVORIAN Clips & Clamps


Plex for the Modern Automotive Manufacturing Enterprise

“The Plex Manufacturing Cloud empowers us to manage a network of 10,000 suppliers across nearly two dozen countries and six continents–with a common, scalable business system that supports the growing auto industry.”

“One of the biggest benefits is the ability to directly communicate information with our supply base. In the past, we relied on different solutions outside of our ERP system or came up with homegrown solutions. Now, since our suppliers have access to the SQM system through an Internet browser, we can more easily and effectively share data with our suppliers using a single solution.”

“Plex is managed off-premises, so we don’t have to worry about the day-to-day challenges of keeping the system up and running. About 80 percent of our IT team members today are business analysts: able to focus on strategic support of our business units. This has improved the overall alignment between the IT department and the rest of the business.”


More Reasons Why Automotive Manufacturing Suppliers Say Success is ... Plex

• Six billion parts shipped by Plex customers in six months.

• Nine million automotive users who log in to the Plex Manufacturing Cloud yearly.

• $200,000 saved in IT costs. - Jagemann Stamping Company.

• Zero upgrade costs. Immediate ROI. - Clips & Clamps.

“We just completed our fiscal inventory and we had an adjustment of $4,000 from $8 million of inventory.”

SCOTT TOLLAFIELDFisher Corporation


Are you ready to outpace your competition?

The Plex Manufacturing Cloud gives you:

• End-to-end Business Visibility

• Manufacturing Agility with MES Excellence

• Flexible Cloud Business Model

It’s time to end your competitor’s unfair advantage with the Plex Manufacturing Cloud.

Call us at 855.534.8012www.plex.com/industries/automotive

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