With the automotive industry becoming more globally competitive, OEM's are actively driving down prices resulting in lower margins. To add to the supply chain complexity, OEM's demand on their first and second tier suppliers continually shifts. This ultimately results in these suppliers holding much higher inventory levels to ensure that they never stop the OEM's production.

Vast amounts of information called releases flow from the OEM's on a regular basis to their suppliers. Based on this information, inventory flows in to the OEM's. The key therefore to suppliers holding optimum inventory is the ability to process this information effectively.

Datascope Consulting has developed a set of SYSPRO integrated tools which automatically upload these releases into SYSPRO. This helps to reduce inventory holding by assisting suppliers to improve demand visibility, reduce the planning cycle, improve production scheduling, the automatic release of purchase orders, better inventory controls, task automation and management analysis and measurement tools. The benefits of all of these tools are discussed in detail on the main page.

EDI
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Planning | Forecasting
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Automotive Tools
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EDI

Over the past five years Datascope Consulting have implemented a number of EDI systems for various industries. Two industries that stand out are the Cosmetics and Automotive industries.Within the Cosmetics industry Datascope has development a number of fully integrated EDI systems directly into SYSPRO from EDI file handling, file format error checking, stock code and customer validation checking to importing the orders as sales orders, giving various order screening and release functionality into SYSPRO sales orders, and finally the management of sending EDI invoiced data files back to the customers. This solution has been implemented in two of South Africa’s largest cosmetic suppliers where volumes of orders received in a day can exceed five thousand orders.Within the Automotive industry Datascope have developed standard release import and export tools (the detail of these can be found in the Automotive tools section below). Other non-SYSPRO tools have also been developed to optimize material supply directly to an Automotive Assemblers production line on a JIS (just in sequence), JIT (just in time) and Kanban basis. Further, a number of our large software developments for the logistics industries make extensive use of EDI, examples of which are; material call-offs, e-waybills , advance shipping notices and requests for transport.

Planning | Forecasting

Datascope have developed a fully integrated forecasting tool for SYSPRO. Although the design of the system is fairly simple it is very effective where a company needs to forecast at planning family level with various preset trends such as cyclical trend, economic growth trends and so on. The system has functionality to set demand at these family levels and the to automatically split the demand over a rolling year into weekly buckets and to import these directly into SYSPRO’s forecasting module at standard finished goods SKU level. At the end of each month the software will calculate the actual sales recorded at finished goods level and aggregate this back up to family level for reporting purposes.

Automotive Tools

Datascope Consulting have developed a set of SYSPRO integrated tools to help reduce inventory holding by assisting with improved demand visibility, reducing planning cycles, improved production scheduling, release of purchase orders, inventory control, task automation and analysis. Our current set of Automotive tools include:

EDI release tool

Build schedule & Supplier release system

Shipping schedule

ASN’s & RFT’s, VDA label printing and Sales & Operations tool

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