Auto Components & Ancillary
The owner runs three views blind. The OEM supplier scorecard (quality PPM, delivery adherence, cost, responsiveness) is the gate to the next programme, yet most suppliers see it only when the OEM sends it, react late, and cannot tell which input is dragging the score. Rejection, rework, scrap, premium freight, warranty debits, tooling downtime and energy waste sit in different ledgers and are almost never consolidated, so the several margin points hiding inside a programme stay hidden. And the cash and inventory position is learned at month-end, with true margin by programme an argument rather than a number because scrap, premium freight, warranty debits and tooling cost are never netted in one view.
Who has it
Across all segments; signature for the Tier-1 OEM suppliers, who live and die by the scorecard, and the forging and casting units, for margin-by-programme; the Tier-2 and Tier-3 job-shops and the rubber, plastic and wiring-harness makers carry the same need across cost, cycle and margin.
What we build
A live scorecard mirror that pulls your own PPM, OTIF and responsiveness, flags which input is dragging and ties each to a concrete action and owner. A layer that nets rejection, rework, scrap, premium freight, warranty debits, tooling downtime and energy waste into one cost-of-poor-quality figure by programme and part. And always-current dashboards over the connected layer showing cash position, receivables aging, inventory value and true margin by programme and part on one screen the owner actually opens.
What is automated, where AI helps, who signs off
The reliable spine
The reliable spine is the calculation over the connected layer: the scorecard mirror, the cost-of-poor-quality netting and the cash and margin views are all deterministic, traceable arithmetic that reconciles to the source ledgers.
Where AI helps
AI is limited to clustering which inputs are dragging a score and drafting the plain-language read on a dashboard; it never sets a number, a target or the action taken.
Who signs off
A named person signs off anything touching money, stock, a customer promise, a regulated filing, a payment, a price, a credit decision or a people decision.
What changes day to day
You manage the scorecard instead of receiving it, and a better score strengthens your position for the next award; the owner sees, for the first time consolidated, the several margin points hiding inside a programme and acts on the largest, with cash and true margin visible every morning instead of at month-end. Illustrative; final numbers come from your own data.
Illustrative outcome
You manage the scorecard instead of receiving it, and a better score strengthens your position for the next award; the owner sees the several margin points hiding inside a programme, consolidated for the first time, and acts on the largest. Illustrative; final numbers come from your own data.
Illustrative; final numbers come from your own data.
Path to the build
Book a free 60-minute call, then a free Blueprint on the firm's own records. Deep-dive and build, followed by run and govern so the workflow keeps paying back.
Related builds
A free 60-minute call. No cost, no obligation, just a clear read on what is worth building.