Industry
For automotive component manufacturers supplying OEMs, where customer schedules, PPAP and APQP, traceability and customer-specific labels shape daily work.
Introduction
Automotive component suppliers produce engine, transmission, chassis, brake, steering, suspension and EV components for OEMs and Tier 1 customers, often at high volume with tight delivery windows.
Work is release-driven and revision-driven: customer schedules, PPAP and APQP, part-level traceability, customer-specific labels and IATF requirements shape every day.
Segments
Industry requirements
These are the requirements manufacturers in this industry typically manage. Talk to us about how Navigator’s manufacturing core applies to your process.
Challenges
What automotive component suppliers typically face when the business runs on spreadsheets, paper and disconnected tools.
Generic ERP
Generic ERP is built around a clean, linear order-to-invoice flow. These are the gaps that usually push teams back to spreadsheets.
Why Navigator
Navigator is customized to how automotive component suppliers work, on a manufacturing-first core — engineering, PPC and MRP, purchasing, production, quality, maintenance and finance — shaped by customized ERP work across varied manufacturing segments since 1997. Our no-code development tool, launched in 2020, greatly speeds up that customization, so the system follows your process instead of forcing you into a generic template.
APQP projects with gates and actions, PPAP submissions, FMEA and control plans in Navigator - QMS.
Customer complaints with SLA tracking, NCRs, and corrective action with root cause and effectiveness checks in Navigator - QMS.
Master production schedule, MRP, shortage lists and work-order priority in Navigator - PPC, with delivery schedules and order-to-dispatch traceability in Navigator - ERP.
Navigator delivered a mass-production solution for an automobile OEM in 2006 and worked with automobile component manufacturers across Gujarat in 2008–2009.
From our journey
Navigator delivered a mass-production solution for an automobile OEM in 2006, and worked with automobile component manufacturers across Gujarat in 2008–2009. See our journey
FAQ
Automotive components covers engine components, transmission components, chassis components, steering components, brake components, suspension components, exhaust components, ev components and drivetrain, battery components, motor components and seating components.
Typical requirements include customer schedules, edi and edi dispatch, jit / jis, kanban and sequencing, asn, ppap and apqp, iatf requirements, traceability and customer-specific labels.
Customer schedule changes reach production late, causing wrong quantities or premium freight. PPAP, APQP and control plan documents are spread across folders and email. Containment after a customer complaint takes too long because lots are not linked. Revision changes are not tied to production and inspection, risking parts built to the wrong revision.
Release data is disconnected from MRP, production and dispatch. Revision control sits apart from production and quality records. Tooling, gauges and calibration status are not linked to output. APQP, PPAP, FMEA and control plans need separate tools.
Navigator is customized to how automotive component suppliers work, on a manufacturing-first core — engineering, PPC and MRP, purchasing, production, quality, maintenance and finance — shaped by customized ERP work across varied manufacturing segments since 1997. Our no-code development tool, launched in 2020, greatly speeds up that customization, so the system follows your process instead of forcing you into a generic template. Key benefits: APQP and PPAP in one place — APQP projects with gates and actions, PPAP submissions, FMEA and control plans in Navigator - QMS. Complaints and corrective action — Customer complaints with SLA tracking, NCRs, and corrective action with root cause and effectiveness checks in Navigator - QMS. Planning to customer demand — Master production schedule, MRP, shortage lists and work-order priority in Navigator - PPC, with delivery schedules and order-to-dispatch traceability in Navigator - ERP. Proven in automotive — Navigator delivered a mass-production solution for an automobile OEM in 2006 and worked with automobile component manufacturers across Gujarat in 2008–2009.
Products to look at first are Navigator - ERP, Navigator - QMS, Navigator - PPC and Navigator - ToolRoom. Navigator has delivered solutions for an automobile OEM and for automobile component manufacturers. Navigator QMS includes APQP projects, PPAP submissions, FMEA and control plans.
Next step
Tell us how you manufacture and where planning breaks down. We will walk you through the parts of Navigator that fit.
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