Every part traceable, every cost in place
Serial and batch traceability, subcontracting, quality inspections and actual cost for automotive suppliers; on one record, across all your plants.
A supplier’s daily pains, lasting answers
We move what audits, recalls and cost reviews ask for onto one record.
The scope of a recall can’t be found
When a faulty batch surfaces, finding which shipment took it to which customer takes days; the cost grows with the scope.
Batch genealogy runs from the raw material consumed to the batch produced, and on to the shipment item and the customer. From a faulty batch you reach both the supplier and the customer in one chain.
Serial numbers live in a spreadsheet
Safety parts must be tracked one by one; a separate list does not stand up in an audit.
For serial-managed materials, goods receipt, production confirmation and shipment require as many serial numbers as the quantity. Each serial number’s passport shows all its movements from supplier to customer.
Plating and heat-treatment subcontracting is invisible
Galvanising, painting and heat treatment are done outside; material at the subcontractor and the subcontracting cost slip out of sight.
The subcontracted step is defined in the routing and its purchase order opens automatically. Material at the subcontractor is tracked separately, the cost flows to the production order, and scrap is reported from sent and returned quantities.
Quality records are scattered
Incoming inspection sits in one sheet, line inspection somewhere else; supplier performance is estimated at year end.
Inspection lots open automatically at goods receipt, production confirmation and shipment. At receipt, the quantity to be inspected waits in quality stock and is released, rejected or scrapped by decision. The supplier quality score is calculated from inspection results.
Part cost is an estimate
Standard cost was calculated years ago; its variance from actual cost is not visible even at month end.
Every production order adds up material, activity, subcontracting and overhead. The variance against standard cost is reported per order and posted to accounting in the same transaction when the order closes.
From supply to shipment, on one record
Each stage inherits the batch, serial number and cost of the one before.
- 01
Supply
Material arrives with batch and serial numbers; incoming inspection opens automatically.
- 02
Production
Pressing, machining and assembly; confirmations post consumption, batch and serial.
- 03
Subcontracting
Plating, painting, heat treatment; material is tracked at the subcontractor, cost flows to the order.
- 04
Quality
Line and shipment inspections; every decision is recorded and feeds the supplier score.
- 05
Shipment
SSCC-barcoded cartons and pallets; e-waybill and e-invoice documents are generated.
What’s next for automotive
These capabilities are not in the product today; they are planned. Our customers’ needs set the order and timing — let’s talk in a demo.
Customer call-offs and EDI
Receiving delivery schedules (DELFOR, DELJIT) directly, with call-offs flowing into orders and planning automatically.
Kanban and backflushing
Repetitive production without orders on series lines; components consumed automatically at confirmation.
Measurement-based quality
Characteristics and measured values, SPC, control plans, PPAP files and certificates of analysis.
Tool and fixture management
Assigning tools to operations, stroke counters and counter-based maintenance alerts.
Shifts and OEE
Shift calendars per work centre; capacity and scheduling by shift, and OEE as a single percentage.
The modules that come together for automotive
All run on the same record; when one updates, the others know instantly.
- Production PlanningBills of materials, routings, MRP, production orders, subcontracting and actual cost
- Procurement & InventoryPurchasing, batch and serial management, stock at subcontractors
- Quality ManagementIncoming, production and shipment inspections; supplier quality score
- Warehouse ManagementSSCC-barcoded cartons and pallets, bin-level stock, counting
- Sales & DistributionOrders, shipments, e-waybills and e-invoices
- Finance & AccountingEvery movement in accounting in the same transaction
What automotive suppliers ask
The most frequent questions before a demo.
Batch genealogy runs from the batch produced to the raw material batches consumed, and from shipment items to the customer. Open the faulty batch and you see, in one chain, which shipment took it to which customer and which supplier batch it was made from.
For serial-managed materials, yes: goods receipt, production confirmation and shipment require as many serial numbers as the quantity; too few or too many are not accepted. Entering a serial number for a material that is not serial-managed is rejected as well.
Yes. Material sent to a subcontractor is tracked separately in stock under that subcontractor and is consumed when the product comes back. The scrap report compares sent and returned quantities, and the subcontracting cost is written to the production order.
Not yet. Today customer call-offs are entered as sales orders and MRP plans from them. Receiving delivery schedules via EDI is on our roadmap; our customers’ needs set its order.
We measure the components of OEE: unplanned downtime per work centre, planned and actual operation time, and produced and scrapped quantity. A single OEE percentage needs availability calculated against a shift calendar; shift planning is on our roadmap. Until then we don’t produce a percentage, because it would be a guess.
Yes. Every production order adds up material, activity, subcontracting and overhead. The cost variance report shows standard and actual cost per order with the amount and percentage variance; when the order closes, the variance is posted to accounting in the same transaction.
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your own data
In a 30-minute demo, we set up your processes on Hadron together.