Aftermarket and Parts
Our integrated approach to parts management addresses design, manufacturing, and aftersales support.
Increasing efficiencies in global parts management.
Our approach combines business analytics with custom applications to address each functional area that brings efficiency in parts management. For e.g., a tool for catalog maintenance with part family and noun nomenclature.
Our software – costCompare for wire harness costing is used by global OEMs. costCompare significantly reduces the time taken to cost harness and generate reports based on material, machining and labor costs instantly.
We have mined 100,000+ parts that were distributed across 75+ commodities using an exclusive tool to group parts with similar attributes and aid rationalization. With the combination of tool and service we eliminated 10,000+ duplicate parts from the inventory (Soft and hard savings)
Addressing the industry pain points
Consolidation after an M&A event:
- Addressing duplicate parts in service parts population
- Parts duplication arising out of new product offerings
- Duplicate parts arising from purchase of OEM products and re-branding without validating existing part libraries
Inventory management:
- Overstocked depots
- Engineers, buyers, warehouse operations and quality staff spending unnecessary time on the maintenance of the excess parts
- Locked-up capital owing to excess inventory
Differential part pricing across the supply chain:
- The same part existing under different part numbers and price points leading to confused dealer choices
- The suppliers taking advantage of the confusion and supply the same part under different part numbers to the OEM, usually at different price points at different locations
For a global OEM, we have performed pricing analysis for 200,000+ parts across 120+ commodities in a short span of 18 months.
A platform-based approach for parts management
Solution
Change management
Parts consolidation
Service kits management
Parts catalog
Pricing management
Production Part Approval Process (PPAP)
eCommerce
Service stack
Change management processing support
3D design and drawing creations
Release in PLM/PDM
Data mining
Parts rationalization
De-complexity
Physical kit validation
Innovative marketing kit development
Obsolescence and overstock support for kits
Noun validation and classification
Catalogue maintenance
Smart pricing
Should costing
PFMEA and controls plan documentation support
PPAP processing
APQP facilitation
Data analysis to build an e-commerce tool
Attribute gathering and cleaning
Application stack
Change management tool
Parts consolidation tool
Service kits tool
Parts catalogue
BOM/Harness costing
PPAP tool
e-commerce tools
CAE, CFD analysis and simulation
Meshing
- Re-manufacturing support and publications
- Reverse engineering for resourcing
- Service parts design support
- Standard parts design kits validation — kit tool
Change management & release support
- Engineering change updates on service parts
- Release activity in PDM based on engineering changes
- Parts database maintenance
Purchasing
- Should costing support for supplier selection for new parts and supplier negotiation for existing parts – RFQs
- Prototype parts procurement
- Sourcing and supplier management
- ISIR processing for vendor parts – quality module
Sales and after sales
- Parts catalogue management
- Parts description standardization
- Sale order processing
- Warranty claims processing
- Service quote generation
Cost savings
- Parts rationalization
- ABC analysis
- Inventory management
- Smart pricing
- De-complexity
- Value stream mapping
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We are a technology-driven global engineering solutions company addressing challenges relative to benchmarking, product development, cost optimization, manufacturing, and aftermarket for major automotive OEMs, off-highway, commercial vehicle manufacturers, and their suppliers. Our award-winning technologies combined with highly evolved processes enable our customers to gain actionable insights that accelerate R&D programs, fuel growth decisions, cut costs, and improve efficiencies.