Saphran Solutions, based in Farmington Hills, Michigan, announced that in partnership with Northville-based global automotive market forecasting company CSM Worldwide they have implemented its PartBase™ and QuoteBase™ software at two of ITW's business units. One ITW (Illinois Tool Works) business unit is Superb Products in Sterling Heights and Port Huron, Michigan, and the other is Deltar Canada in Concord, Ontario, near Toronto.
PartBase™ is a business planning and forecasting software to make it much easier and faster to link CSM Worldwide's automotive OEM vehicle forecast to a company's parts. This can help improve forecast and profit-planning accuracy. QuoteBase™ is a software tool to track the RFQ (Request for Quote) process with detailed costing and quoting support. Both tools work closely with Microsoft® Excel® to generate enterprise-quality business-decision reports which significantly lower cost, complexity, IT demands and training. Saphran and CSM Worldwide support SmartLink™ technology to maintain the accuracy of monthly part and vehicle-forecast updates and the ability to complete updates in substantially less time.
"Saphran Solutions provides configurable and flexible integrated forecasting and quoting software for automotive suppliers like ITW," said Brett Kurily, Superb Products General Manager. "PartBase and QuoteBase are helping our commercial team reduce the number of manual non-integrated spreadsheets and database steps while allowing us to keep our short- and long-term business plan always up to date."
"This is the kind of win-win partnership that Deltar Canada was looking for by providing the improved commercial software via a hosted-software approach to keep the upfront cost low while getting started quickly," Tony Schwehr, Deltar Canada General Manager, added. "We have found Saphran's customer support to be very responsive, plus their training and user adoption support has been excellent."
"We worked with ITW Superb Products and Deltar Canada to identify and configure key automotive supplier capabilities and attributes that were specific to these two ITW business units," said Mr. Kenneth Q. Bassey, CEO of Saphran Solutions. "The end result is that we launched the software quickly and configured it for fast user adoption. Our automotive and custom manufacturing customers enjoy the regularity at which CSM Worldwide's forecast data is updated which is directly linked to the customers corresponding parts and part attributes. ITW's business units are innovative and disciplined in their progressive commercial management approaches. We are looking forward to growing our relationship with ITW and supporting their continued commercial leadership."
"ITW has been a valued CSM Worldwide customer for over three years in using our Automotive Production Forecasts to help improve their global business forecasting," said John Brennan, CSM Worldwide's VP Global Business Development. "We are excited to help them gain additional speed and insight by using PartBase™ in sync with CSM AutoBase to more tightly link their part information, pricing, costing and equipment to the CSM OEM program production volumes that we provide each month. ITW is freeing up valuable commercial time that will allow them to focus on more strategic business improvements enabled by real-time business forecasts. CSM is committed to supporting automotive suppliers' commercial best-practice improvements."
CSM Worldwide and Saphran Solutions offer automotive executives educational workshops and commercial management thought leadership articles that can be accessed at www.saphran.com or www.csmauto.com. Saphran Solutions has been supported by Automation Alley incubator services, www.automationalley.org. CSM Worldwide and Saphran Solutions will be at the Management Briefing Seminars for Automotive Supplier executives from August 6 to 10 in Traverse City, Mich. ITW Superb Products and Deltar Canada offer OEMs and Tier 1s high-quality and cost-effective fasteners for many applications with more information at www.itwautomotive.com.
About Saphran Solutions
Saphran Solutions, with offices in Farmington Hills, Michigan, is an independent software developer providing automotive teams with enterprise-wide integrated commercial management capability that works with ERP and PLM systems to improve profit growth and certainty. It currently markets PartBase™, a forecasting and business planning system that integrates directly with CSM Worldwide's Autobase automotive market forecasts; QuoteBase™, a quoting and costing RFQ accuracy and speed accelerator; and CapacityBase™, a forward-looking capacity and throughput-optimization planning tool.
For more information please call (248) 522-7000, Email: info@saphran.com or visit http://www.saphran.com
About CSM Worldwide
CSM Worldwide provides trusted automotive market forecasting services and strategic advisory solutions to the world's top automotive manufacturers, suppliers and financial organizations. CSM Worldwide covers the global automotive environment from Detroit, Frankfurt, London, Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai, Grand Rapids, São Paulo, Budapest and Goa.
For more information please call (248) 380-9000, Email: info@csmauto.com or visit http://www.csmauto.com
About ITW
ITW is a $14.1 billion in revenues diversified manufacturer of highly engineered components and industrial systems and consumables. The company consists of approximately 750 business units in 49 countries and employs some 55,000 people. ITW Superb Products and Deltar Canada supply a wide range of industry-leading plastic fasteners that continue to set standards for design versatility and reliability.
For more information please call (248) 589-2500, Email: info@itwautomotive.com or visit http://www.itwautomotive.com.
