For automotive manufacturers to be more competitive in today’s highly connected environment, they need to focus on bringing their operational, financial and IT strategies in concert with one another or risk diminishing returns from each. Learn these valuable insights: - How to empower IT to become agents of business improvement - Improving collaboration, visibility and quality throughout the supply chain - The positive impact of aligning the business to everyone and everything - How to use a unified system to drive continuous improvement with real-time, actionable data For more, go to www.plex.com

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Synergize Strategies for
Greater Success in Automotive
Stu Johnson
Product Marketing Director
Plex Systems

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Topics
• Connect the business with the business of
manufacturing for better collaboration
• Control the shop floor to increase productivity
• Unlock more potential by refocusing IT resources
• Transform the business for faster,
more confident decision-making
Control
Control
Connect
Better
Decisions
Unlock
Control
Connect
Transform
Unlock

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Manufacturing Complexity is Growing
Source: CIO Survey, IDG, January 2016
Complexity
See increase in complexity in
their organization’s ERP ecosystem
Source: CIO Survey, IDG, January 2016
70%

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Today It’s All About Digital Transformation – LNS Research
From Michael Porter at the Harvard Business School, to U Penn’s Wharton School of Business there
is a growing consensus that Digital Transformation is not only real; it is imminent and inevitable.

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What Does Digital Transformation Mean to Automotive Manufacturers?

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Why Plex?  Enable Financial + Operational + IT Strategies
Business Strategy
Operational Strategy • Control production to
increase productivity
• Reduce IT spend and
unleash the value of data
• Connect everyone and
everything to win more business
IT Strategy

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Basic Operational Strategy
Raw Material Production Quality Shipping
• Convert raw materials from suppliers into
finished goods delivered to customers
• Optimize processes for greatest efficiency
• Delight customer with on-time delivery and
world class quality
• Continuously improve to increase capacity
and/or margins
Supplier Customer

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Basic Business Strategy
SalesProcurement Finance
CEO
• Minimize supplier spend
• Minimize excess inventory
• Maximize revenue and customer value
• Keep and grow customer business

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+ Financial Strategy
• Business and Manufacturing are
separate functions
Business Drives Operations
• Poor visibility between top floor and
manufacturing
Inventory Production Quality Shipping

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Basic IT Strategy
V1 V2 R2.1 2014
ITERP • Version-based, software/hardware
• Multi-database jigsaw puzzle
• Finance-focused ERP
• Typically business focused
• Manufacturing is an afterthought
• Bolt on solutions for individual functions
MES QMS

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“The truth was we had outgrown our best-of-breed
solution, especially some of the core systems like
EDI and peripheral ones like HR,” she continues.
“Our main ERP provider was also taking a different
strategic direction to us, which really kick-started
our search for a replacement solution.”
Molly Hunting, Director of IT

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Plex for Operational Strategy
Control the Shop Floor

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Operational Strategy w/ Plex – Control the Shop Floor
High-resolution Traceability
• Increase inventory accuracy
and turns
• Reduce inventory levels/costs
• Reduce exposure of recalls

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Real-time Control
• Minimize errors with error-proofing
• Automate to reduce wasted effort
• Increase accuracy/yields/throughput
Operational Strategy w/ Plex – Control the Shop Floor
001
002
Production Data
Back to the Business
Operational Data
In to Workcenters

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FMEA
CONTROL PLAN
SPCIFICATION
PPAP DOCS
ONLINE
Integrated, Database-driven Quality
• Operationalize quality compliance
• Respond in real-time w/ SPC
• On-line docs to speed audits
Operational Strategy w/ Plex – Control the Shop Floor
001
002 PPAP DOCS
CHECKSHEET

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½ an Hour
Expected productivity gain in
supply chain
3With Plex, Accuride can ship
inventory within 3 hours
Customer Success – Accuride
Industry
Commercial Vehicle Parts Manufacturer. Tier 1 supplier of wheels and wheel end solutions
“Plex has played a huge role in helping us to consolidate and transform the
performance of our business, making us a super-efficient manufacturer across our
product range. Our customers are happy, we have secured our place in the market
and our bottom line is healthy.”
Paul Wright
Accuride, Director IT
10%
Hardware requisitions can now be effected in
just half an hour rather than a number of days

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Plex for IT Strategy
Unleash the Potential of IT with the Manufacturing Cloud

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IT Strategy w/ Plex
Unlock the Potential of IT
• Move IT costs/burden to cloud
• Data stored in a single source of truth
• Focus IT on Business versus HW & SW
Scale to Changing Needs
• Keep on the latest technology
• Update regularly w/o disruptive upgrades
• Unlimited users across value chain
IT  Biz/Data Analysts
ERP

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Customer Success – Clips & Clamps
Industry
Automotive metal former since 1954
“Not having to pay upgrade costs for our old systems made Plex a break-even
investment. When balanced against our cost avoidance, the launch of Plex cost us
nothing and we had an immediate ROI. Who could argue with that?”
Jeff Aznavorian, Vice President and General Manager
ROI
Immediate ROI by
eliminating upgrades
6  1
Replaced 6 disparate systems with a
single integrated manufacturing ERP
ERP
+MES
+CRM
Integration And ease-of-use

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Plex for Business Strategy
Connect the Business to Everyone and Everything

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Business Strategy w/ Plex
Connect Your Equipment
• Real-time information to the business
• Enable real-time costing
• Improve efficiency with mobility
Connect Your People
• Reduce manual re-entry
• Eliminate multiple EDI vendors
• Improve on-time delivery
Connect to Other Software
• Connect to corporate ERP
• Maximize ROI w/ technology
• Easily build custom solutions
Make Production Data Visible to the Business
ERP
IIoT
Make Faster More Confident Decisions
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$
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Unified Strategy
Connect Everyone & Everything
Connect the Business from Customers to Suppliers
To Mitigate Supply Chain Risk
ConnecttheTopFloor
w/ShopFloor
Supplier
Scorecards MMOG/LE

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version of the real-time
truth from shop-floor to top
floor
8All 8 metal forming facilities
standardized on Plex
Customer Success – American Axle & Manufacturing
Industry
Automotive Parts Manufacturer. Tier 1 supplier of driveline and drivetrain systems
“We leverage Plex to more effectively integrate and collaborate with our supplier
base. Plex supplier portal helps us collaborate with suppliers to manage supplier
container creation, labeling and shipments as well as supplier quality…”
Michael Trathen
AAM, Sr. Manager VSM/Lean Systems
Visibility
12Months to
replace all
point
solutions
across a large,
geographically
distributed
organization
1

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Plex Creates Business Value for Automotive Manufacturers
Control
Connect
Unlock UNLOCK THE POTENTIAL OF PEOPLE
Informed, engaged, and effective workforce
CONTROL THE SHOP FLOOR
Real-time visibility and control at the manufacturing moment
MAKE DECISIONS WITH CONFIDENCE AND SPEED
Holistic contextual view of the enterprise
CONNECT THE BUSINESS TO EVERYTHING
Streamlined communication, collaboration, and connectivity
Transform

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• 100% Manufacturing ERP
• True multi-tenant cloud
• Growth Investment: T Rowe Price,
Francisco Partners, Accel Partners
• One code base, one version, one community
• Happiest ERP customers in history
530+
customers
95%+
renewal rate
1,660+
facilities
22
countries
99.9%+
up-time
0
upgrades
Plex Systems Highlights

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Thank You!
StuJohnson@Plex.com