Dassault Systèmes (DS) (Nasdaq: DASTY; Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA), a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, today announced a partnership with automotive forecast leader CSM Worldwide and software supplier Saphran Solutions, designed to help automotive suppliers quickly develop customer proposals and quotes, and confidently and consistently assess the project’s profit potential as well as the financial impact it will have on their ongoing business plans.
Statistics show that less than 50 percent of proposals are delivered on time with the required documentation. As the OEM’s window of response time continues to decrease, this means that quotes for jobs are often being submitted without suppliers confidently knowing how to meet the associated costs and their internal margin requirements.
"Disparate and fragmented systems limit on-demand strategic decision support for management," says John Brennan, Vice President, Global Business Development, CSM Worldwide. "By integrating CSM forecast data and Saphran Solutions quoting and business planning forecasting applications with DS ENOVIA’s PLM collaborative business process tools, suppliers can accurately access the value and impact of any project on the enterprise."
Adds John Squire, ENOVIA VP, Marketing, Dassault Systèmes, "This partnership will offer customers the ability to configure their proposals to reflect industry accepted forecasts, and defined product scenarios inclusive of assigned tasks, materials required for manufacturing, and identified sourcing professionals. All the forecast, cost and design data is stored together so there is total revision control – any changes made to the original proposal are mapped and stored into the system."
"Saphran's closed-loop commercial optimization software leverages cost structures with the library of engineering information managed by Dassault Systèmes intelligently linked to CSM's vehicle, engine or transmission forecasts to reduce financial risk and enhance margins," adds Kenneth Bassey, Founder and President of Saphran Solutions. "We apply techniques of the Toyota Production System to reduce wasted effort and improve accuracy of forward profit management process and the results are highly measurable."
The capability offered by the partnership between CSM, Saphran and Dassault Systèmes reduces supplier risk by allowing them to realize more timely and accurate quotes based on product forecasts with BOM cost analysis reflecting both changing product specifications and rolling business plan cost models. Executive dashboards track status, costing, and margin of various proposals under development in real time for financial analysis. This results in a higher win/loss ratio and better program margins. It also allows for program changes to be measured, communicated, and tracked in real time in tandem with program risk and costing changes. Through accurate on-demand enterprise forecasting, a supplier can better access the value a new program represents, ensuring that its enterprise is structured to protect and grow forward profits.
The integrated quote management solution relies upon software from both Saphran Solutions and Dassault Systèmes with one click integration of automotive market forecasts from CSM. For more information, call David Lazor from Dassault Systèmes at (248) 762-1986, John Brennan from CSM at (248) 465-2805 or Edward Scott from Saphran at (810) 845-0593.
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About CSM Worldwide
CSM Worldwide provides trusted automotive market forecasting services and strategic advisory solutions to the world’s top automotive manufacturers, suppliers and financial organizations. CSM Worldwide covers the global automotive environment from Detroit, Grand Rapids, São Paulo, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Budapest, New Delhi, Bangkok, Shanghai and Tokyo. For more information, visit http://www.csmauto.com.
About Saphran Solutions
Saphran Solutions, established in 2001, is the world’s leader in Predictive Margin Optimization software that is helping custom manufacturers increase forward margins while reducing risks. Saphran specializes in implementing long-term forecasting, via PartBase™, and costing and quoting solutions, via QuoteBase™, for automotive suppliers and other manufacturers with PLM and ERP integration. Saphran is helping automotive suppliers create a closed-loop commercial process to improve business planning and RFQ quoting/costing accuracy by efficiently integrating market forecasts and first hand customer intelligence updates. For more information, visit http://www.saphran.com.
About Dassault Systèmes
As a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, Dassault Systèmes brings value to more than 100,000 customers in 80 countries. A pioneer in the 3D software market since 1981, Dassault Systèmes develops and markets PLM application software and services that support industrial processes and provide a 3D vision of the entire lifecycle of products from conception to maintenance to recycling. The Dassault Systèmes portfolio consists of CATIA for designing the virtual product - SolidWorks for 3D mechanical design - DELMIA for virtual production - SIMULIA for virtual testing - ENOVIA for global collaborative lifecycle management, and 3DVIA for online 3D lifelike experiences. Dassault Systèmes is listed on the Nasdaq (DASTY) and Euronext Paris (#13065, DSY.PA) stock exchanges. For more information, visit http://www.3ds.com.
CATIA, DELMIA, ENOVIA, SIMULIA, SolidWorks and 3D VIA are registered trademarks of Dassault Systèmes or its subsidiaries in the US and/or other countries.
Dassault Systèmes Press Contacts:
Derek Lane(DS Americas) derek.lane@3ds.com +1 (818) 673-2243
CSM Worldwide Press Contact:
Debbie Keiper debbiekeipper@csmauto.com +1 (248) 465-2809
Saphran Solutions Press Contact:
Dennis Nash dnash@saphran.com +1 (248) 432-0175
