Serving the discrete manufacturing industry

The automotive market relies heavily on relationships with multi-tiered supply networks to meet ever-changing customer demand. Without effective and efficient supplier collaboration, automotive manufacturers can face critical cost and supply issues which can impact both top-and-bottom-line performance.

Today's automotive environment calls for global cooperation--both within an organization and externally with supply partners--among engineering, sourcing, manufacturing, and quality professionals. The ability to execute cost management initiatives across these globally dispersed functions can mean the difference between success and failure.

Leading automotive companies use Co-eXprise CX4 to improve collaboration across their enterprise and drive a higher level of cost management performance.

Using the CX4 base platform and complementary solution modules automotive manufacturers can:

• Improve sourcing efficiency, leading to faster quoting, program launches, and customer response times
• Integrate rich technical design data directly into the strategic sourcing process
• Improve collaboration and communication across their extended enterprise to reduce costs and achieve target margins
• Make better sourcing decisions based on total landed cost

Consumer Goods manufacturers have experienced firsthand the influence of globalization in the past decade. Low cost country sourcing and manufacturing expansion in emerging regions have provided significant cost advantages and opened new markets and growth opportunities.

However, relentless competition has led to increased customer expectations--which are often challenging to meet. Today's consumers demand increased variety, real-time availability, and continued product innovation as consumer goods manufacturers now must operate in a world of increased supply chain complexity that emphasizes faster time-to-market. Manufacturers must continue to satisfy customer demand while introducing new products at affordable prices.

Co-eXprise CX4 is used at leading consumer goods companies to improve cost management performance and create a competitive advantage.

Using the CX4 base platform and complementary solution modules consumer goods manufacturers can:

• Bring products to market faster
• Improve collaboration and communication across their extended enterprise to reduce costs and achieve target margins
• Make better sourcing decisions based on total landed cost
• Improve the productivity of their sourcing processes

Diversified industrial manufacturers are seeing tremendous growth opportunities in emerging regions as continued prosperity is creating a sustained requirement for infrastructure improvements. Manufacturers of heavy machinery and industrial equipment are executing strategies to capitalize on this boom and position themselves to capture a greater market share.

The same growth in emerging markets is driving a higher level of industrial production worldwide and creating continued commodity price inflation. With increasing commodity prices, diversified industrial manufacturers need to effectively manage costs across their global supply chains to remain competitive.

Co-eXprise CX4 is being used at leading diversified industrial companies to improve cost management performance and create a competitive advantage.

Using the CX4 base platform and complementary solution modules diversified industrial manufacturers can:

• Bring products to market faster
• Improve collaboration and communication across their extended enterprise to reduce costs and achieve target margins
• Reduce quoting cycle time and improve customer responsiveness
• Integrate rich technical design data directly into the strategic sourcing process
• Make better sourcing decisions based on total landed cost

To be competitive, High-Technology manufacturers must continue to decrease the time it takes to design, manufacture, and launch their products. As consumers demand the latest innovations new products are being introduced more frequently than ever before and marketed across multiple sales channels.

As product innovation and channel strategies evolve, so too does the complexity of high technology supply chains. Companies must effectively manage multi-channel distribution strategies and partner with the best suppliers for sourced components. This environment demands a greater degree of enterprise collaboration to manage costs and achieve target margins.

Co-eXprise CX4 can enable high-tech manufacturers to:

• Bring products to market faster
• Reduce quoting cycle time and improve customer responsiveness
• Integrate rich technical design data directly into the strategic sourcing process
• Make better sourcing decisions based on total landed cost
• Improve collaboration and communication across their extended enterprise to reduce costs and achieve target margins

Medical Device manufacturers are seeing tremendous opportunities for growth due in part to the aging population around the world. This demographic trend is driving aggressive expansion into emerging markets, a greater focus on product specialization, and the development of global sourcing strategies to support expansion plans.

As a result, supply chains are feeling the strain. Global expansion is creating new challenges as companies must determine the best way to operate in demanding regulatory environments while rapidly evolving their technology to keep pace with market demands.

For medical device companies, improved efficiency and greater collaboration in the sourcing process can create a competitive advantage.

Co-eXprise CX4 enables medical device manufacturers to:

• Bring new products and technologies to market faster
• Make better sourcing decisions based on total landed cost
• Integrate rich technical design data directly into the strategic sourcing process
• Improve collaboration and communication across their extended enterprise to reduce costs and achieve target margins