Automotive ERP designed around the IATF 16949 quality system, APQP/PPAP submission workflows, customer-specific requirements, and the EDI integrations that automotive primes and tier suppliers operate under. Built for OEMs, tier-1, tier-2, and tier-3 automotive manufacturers running mixed-model, JIT/JIS, and lean production environments.
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Automotive manufacturing runs on disciplined quality systems, customer-specific requirements, and tightly integrated supply chains. Tier suppliers must demonstrate IATF 16949 compliance, deliver PPAPs on time, respond to customer scorecards, and integrate via EDI with each OEM’s portal — while running JIT and JIS production lines where a single line stoppage costs hours of downtime. FlowSense Automotive ERP is built to operate inside this environment: APQP/PPAP-aware quality workflows, customer-specific PPAP levels, EDI-ready logistics, sequenced JIS shipping, advanced product quality planning, and the part-level traceability that warranty and recall investigations demand.
Critical pain points in automotive that our AI solutions address head-on.
Tier suppliers must demonstrate documented APQP, PPAP, FMEA, control plans, and customer-specific requirements — and prove ongoing conformance through every audit cycle. Spreadsheet-based QMS systems struggle to keep this evidence current and connected to the parts they certify.
Each OEM (and often each plant) imposes unique requirements on PPAP levels, packaging, label formats, EDI message variants, and quality reporting. Maintaining these consistently across multiple customer programs is a major source of non-conformance.
Automotive supply chains run on EDI: order forecasts, sequenced delivery instructions, ASNs, and invoices flow electronically. Mismatches between ERP and EDI data — wrong packaging, missed sequence, mis-labelled containers — trigger chargebacks immediately.
JIT (just-in-time) and JIS (just-in-sequence) production demands tight synchronization between order receipt, scheduling, line dispatch, and shipping — often within hours. Inventory buffers are minimal, so any disruption propagates fast.
When a field issue surfaces, automakers expect supplier traceability data within days: which lots went to which VINs, which raw materials, which inspection records. Without lot- and serial-level genealogy, recall scope estimation becomes guesswork.
Comprehensive capabilities designed specifically for the automotive industry.
APQP project execution, PPAP package preparation by customer-specific level (1–5), FMEA libraries, control plans, and audit-evidence linkage — all integrated into engineering, production, and quality workflows.
Per-customer (and per-plant) configurations for label formats, packaging rules, ASN content, PPAP levels, and reporting — applied automatically at order entry, dispatch, and shipping so the right rule fires for the right customer.
Standard EDI message support — ORDERS, DELFOR, DELJIT, ASN/DESADV, INVOIC — with mapping for major OEM portals. Inbound demand updates the schedule; outbound ASNs and invoices match container labels and packaging exactly.
Sequenced production scheduling for JIS deliveries, Kanban and line-side replenishment, mixed-model line balancing, and finite-capacity scheduling tuned to automotive lead-times and takt times.
Lot- and serial-level traceability linking finished assemblies to raw-material lots, supplier certifications, in-process inspection records, operator IDs, and final shipment data — supporting warranty analysis and recall scope estimation.
Material declaration management for IMDS submissions and conflict-minerals reporting via CMRT — linked to BOMs and supplier certifications so submissions stay current as parts and sources change.
Our automotive solutions deliver real, quantifiable results for your business.
PPAP packages assembled from live data — control plans, FMEAs, dimensional results, capability studies, MSA — instead of static document folders that drift out of sync.
Inbound EDI demand updates schedules automatically; outbound ASNs and invoices match what was actually shipped, reducing OEM chargebacks for label/packaging/sequence mismatches.
Sequenced production and shipping ensure the right part arrives at the right line in the right order — every time the OEM triggers a sequenced call-off.
Lot- and serial-level genealogy lets warranty and recall investigations resolve scope quickly, with documented evidence rather than spreadsheet reconstructions.
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Build a Level 3 PPAP from live system data: control plan, PFMEA, design records, dimensional results, capability study, MSA, packaging specs — all linked to the part and revision they certify, then exported in customer-specific format.
OEM sends a sequenced call-off; system schedules production in sequence, allocates inventory, prints sequence-correct labels, and generates a sequence-matched ASN — with audit trail linking each unit to its scheduled position.
Given a customer-reported defect VIN range, trace backward to finished-part lots, raw-material lots, supplier certifications, and inspection records — bounding recall scope with documented genealogy instead of worst-case estimation.
Common questions about our AI-powered automotive solutions.