The automotive industry is one of the most powerful innovation drivers of business information technology. POOL4TOOL General Manager Thomas Dieringer has extensive experience in this field because of his previous work as General Manager of an automotive supplier. Selected Services maintains a special focus on the automotive industry.
The documentation of all customer contacts in Sales, R&D and Quality Management is crucial for Key Account Managers. POOL4TOOL supports teams of different business units that need to deal with complex customer hierarchies and structures.
Using Lixto WebAgents, OEM and other client portals can easily be integrated in the online system, and time-consuming manual access becomes unnecessary.
The exchange of data between clients and suppliers can be carried out as an add-on to internal PLM and/or CAD solutions. The ENX connector in the POOL4TOOL data processing center, plus compliance with automotive standards such as OFTP, Engpart and Engdat, together enable the exchange of information. Every access to documents is recorded, which results in a development towards TQM standards.
With the POOL4TOOL Collaboration Suite, you can work on MS Project plans on a local machine, but the documents are stored centrally in POOL4TOOL. Based on ToDo Lists and Check Lists, meetings can be scheduled and meeting minutes generated as Word or pdf documents
POOL4TOOL supports the illustration of ratios during quotation requests and highly complex RFQs with deep structured cost breakdowns and multi-tiered groups of components. TCO calculation with the formula editor as well as the comparison of offers based on user defined criteria can include the current supplier evaluation. With the integrated POOL4TOOL Document Management, both documents and RFQs have a guaranteed transparent and secure audit trail. POOL4TOOL's auction tool helps you to survive the great price and time pressure in the automotive industry by offering classic dynamic auctions and the most up-to-date ticker auctions with push technology for precisely controlled price biddings.
POOL4TOOL provides a full range of WebEDIs to ease all logistic processes, from the order of a prototype with document links, to delivery schedules and delivery dispatches. Both automotive specific EDIFACT standard IDOCS and SAP-specific IDOCs can be exchanged to enable any form of communication. Our ACTIS Integration Manager runs in ASP mode and supports all common standards. Our delivery dispatch function enables the printing of customized slips for different clients.
POOL4TOOL uses Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI, also called "SMI," for Supplier Managed Inventory), which is a well-established and state-of-the-art commercial process model. Within VMI, suppliers manage their clients' supplies, based on stock levels and the clients' forecasts of their requirements. VMI thus eliminates the need for further order processes.
POOL4TOOL was the first solution on the market to follow the new QDX standard for the exchange of complaints and feedback. With QDX, it is possible to analyse complete control cycles. Optionally, a knowledge database can be built up to support suppliers in finding the right solutions during troubleshooting.
In POOL4TOOL, supplier evaluation becomes an important and powerful tool in the development of supplier relations.
Through specific functions which illustrate APQPs as part of the POOL4TOOL collaboration suite, separate business units on both the client and supplier sides can be quickly integrated.
We implemented PPQ5 (steadiness analysis) to allow BMW to manage its entire supply chain, from OEM to Tier 6, without the need to exchange any printed documents.