Actify, the leading provider of visualization and program management solutions for the automotive supply chain, today announced that EG Industries, a Tier 1 supplier to the automotive industry, has achieved significant program management improvements from early adoption of the Actify APM Suite, the industry’s only purpose-built automotive program management software that enhances communication, collaboration, and comprehension across all teams working on automotive programs.
“We work with our automotive customers to design, develop, and manufacture a wide range of components and sub-assemblies – everything from external parts like wheel trims, to under-hood parts like engine undercovers,” explained Terry English, Director of Program Management at EG Industries. “Some of our customers have a petrol version of their vehicle, a hybrid version, and an electric version, which means that for any one platform, we might have three different versions of a component to create instead of just one. That really compounds the amount of work that a program manager must do.”
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As with other auto suppliers, the automotive industry’s move towards electrification has drastically increased the number of automotive programs that EG Industries needs to manage. The company found that “throwing bodies at the problem” was not a viable approach to this expanding workload since it came with its own set of challenges. To bring added scalability to its automotive program management activities, EG Industries tried out several different software tools, with varying degrees of success.
“We tried doing program management using an Excel-based format for a while, but it just didn’t work very well,” said English. “After that, we tried an ERP-based software solution, but it was quite cumbersome. Our team members found it very difficult and time-consuming to navigate the product and update all the different fields and forms. As a result, the system was often missing the latest status updates, which hampered accurate visibility into where a program actually stood. We knew there had to be a better way.”
The Actify APM was an ideal solution for EG Industries as it was designed in partnership with leading suppliers, specifically for automotive program management.
SOURCE: PR Newswire