ManufacturingCONNECT for Auto:
Automotive Program Management

Efficient Collaboration Across Departments

If you’re in the automotive manufacturing industry, then you know from the time that a bid is won there is about 24 months of work ahead before a final product is produced. Through modeling samples, design and engineering changes, test assembly lines, parts testing, and sending the information to the manufacturing plants, there are many different steps to manage across departments. With so many moving parts, and so many different programs ongoing at once, how can you efficiently manage programs while still adhering to the APQP process?

Our Automotive Program Management Solution

With ManufacturingCONNECT for Automotive Program Management as your tool to manage ongoing programs, you’re able to empower employees across different departments to collaborate more efficiently, easily use APQP pre-built templates to stay in-adherence, keep your program milestones on schedule, and track engineering changes and their overall impact on cost throughout the entire process. With this Automotive Program Management solution, your departments stay on-track, milestones are completed on-time, and production remains on schedule. Manufacturing plants then receive the contract data sooner to begin production, resulting in greater customer satisfaction.

Our solution combines Microsoft Dynamics 365 Project Service Automation (PSA), APQP templates, and MCA Connect’s ManufacturingCONNECT for Auto Bid Response Management solution. Through these functions, Program Managers and Engineers can easily view all the data surrounding a program and efficiently manage the constant engineering and design changes that occur during the process. Once a final product is complete, Program Management provides you with a contract to send to the manufacturing plants of the product details. That contract integrates with your ERP system, so you know all plants are following the same steps and mass production can begin.