About the Automotive Industry Pack

These enhancements to the base product are included:

• Retroactive Billing: Unit pricing is set at the blanket line release level. Existing re-pricing functionality is then modified to reflect the changes at the blanket line release level.
• Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA): This is a common analysis used in the auto industry to determine the risk of certain types of failure and to implement corrective action to prevent those failures. Each operation has a potential risk and certain preventative measures. Although not exclusive to the auto industry it is representative of repetitive manufacturing and is normally expressed in the terms of parts per million. It is important to document the risk and the resulting outcome to insure that a procedure implemented to reduce risk is not removed due to undue circumstance. 100% radiographic inspection could be required to detect a flaw that otherwise would be virtually undetectable and removal of this requirement could have significant impact to the overall quality and performance of the product.
• Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP): These are somewhat independent actions of the ERP that are required to be performed to be said to be in compliance with a Quality Program. Each program has an independent set of requirements, they can only be said to be complete or incomplete.
• Match Delivery Notice to Invoice: This feature provides a way to match a payment to an invoice during AR Payment Distribution. Not all customers reference the invoice during payment. They may reference the ASN, the order, or some other identifier generated on their end. You may now specify which reference type they will provide with payments. When payments are being distributed, you can launch a form that allows you to enter the reference number provided with the payment. The system will then find the invoice that matches this reference number.
• Customer and Vendor Contracts: You can use the customer and vendor master contracts forms to create and manage a contractual agreement regarding customer and vendor order lines and releases.
• Returnable Containers Management: You can manage containers in accordance with Automotive Industry requirements with the data fields on the Automotive Containers form, which are used  for the definition of physical dimension and capacity and for recording the codes and markings necessary for compliance with ISO 6346. Containers can be defined for repeated use, and you may specify general container types. You may also include containers inside other containers.
• Due Date Add Time Stamp: Use this information to facilitate highly repetitive manufacturing with JIT models that require multiple shipments a day for a particular part, customer and purchase order due dates can now include the time of day.
• Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE): Overall Equipment Effectiveness, a key metric that defines the percentage of production that is truly productive, can be viewed on the Job Operations and Resource Group Load Profile - Scheduler forms.