# Automotive & Vehicle Parts > ERP for automotive suppliers and parts distributors - schedules and call-offs, EDI, traceability and delivery performance that is measured. **URL:** https://cubeerp.co.uk/industries/automotive-parts Customers who measure your delivery performance more carefully than you do. Automotive supply brings requirements most sectors do not impose: rolling delivery schedules rather than orders, EDI messaging, specific label formats, PPAP-level traceability and delivery performance measured to the day. Getting any of it wrong produces chargebacks and, eventually, a supplier review. CubeERP handles schedules and call-offs as first-class records, produces the EDI and labelling each customer requires, and maintains the traceability the sector expects as a by-product of production. ## Figures - **By horizon** Firm, committed and forecast - **Per customer** Labels and EDI formats - **Internal** OTIF measured before the scorecard ## Common problems in this sector - **Schedules treated as orders:** A rolling schedule with firm, committed and forecast horizons is not an order. Systems that flatten it into orders lose the distinction and plan badly. - **EDI handled by one person:** Messages are downloaded, interpreted and keyed manually. It works until volumes rise or that person is away, and errors are expensive. - **Labelling that triggers chargebacks:** Each customer mandates a label format. Getting it wrong produces a chargeback that is usually absorbed rather than fixed at source. - **Traceability reconstructed for audit:** PPAP and customer audits require genealogy and process records. Assembling them manually is a job that recurs every time. - **Delivery performance measured by the customer:** The customer’s scorecard is the first anybody hears of a problem, because internal measurement of on-time delivery does not exist. ## What CubeERP does about it - **Schedules and call-offs:** Rolling schedules with firm, committed and forecast horizons held as they are received, with changes highlighted rather than silently overwritten. - **EDI in and out:** Delivery schedules, despatch advices and invoices in the common automotive formats, processed automatically with exceptions raised for a human. - **Customer labelling:** Customer-specific label formats configured per account and printed at despatch, so the pack that leaves matches what the receiving system expects. - **Traceability for audit:** Batch and serial genealogy through every operation, with process parameters, inspection results and certificates retained against the build. - **Your own delivery scorecard:** On-time and in-full measured internally per customer and part, so a problem is visible to you before it is visible to them. - **Capacity against schedule:** Production scheduled against firm horizons with capacity checked, so a schedule increase is answered with a fact rather than a hope. ## Use cases ### A scorecard nobody saw coming **Scenario:** A tier 2 supplier learned of a delivery performance problem from the customer’s quarterly scorecard. Internally, on-time delivery was believed to be fine. **Outcome:** On-time and in-full are now measured internally per customer and part. The gap was found, understood and closed before the next review. ### Chargebacks as a monthly cost **Scenario:** Labels were produced from a template maintained separately from the despatch process. Format errors generated chargebacks that were budgeted for rather than eliminated. **Outcome:** Labels are generated per customer at despatch from the actual pack contents. Labelling chargebacks stopped. ## Implementation 1. **Discovery:** A structured session mapping how you work now - the systems, the spreadsheets and the bits held together by one person’s memory. We come back with what the platform covers as standard, what needs configuration, and what needs building. 2. **Configuration:** Your sites, warehouses, price lists, approval limits, document templates, workflows and permissions set up to match the business - not a demo tenant with your logo dropped on it. 3. **Data migration:** Customers, suppliers, parts, bills of materials, price lists, open orders and stock balances brought across and reconciled. We migrate, you check the numbers against the old system, and only then do we cut over. 4. **Training & rollout:** Role-based training so the order desk learns the order desk and the warehouse learns the warehouse, with a pilot group first where it makes sense. Documentation and short screen recordings left behind for new starters. 5. **Ongoing support:** UK support from the people who built the platform, with a named contact, agreed response times, and a product roadmap you can influence. ## Frequently asked questions **Which EDI standards do you support?** The common automotive message types for schedules, despatch advices and invoices. Where a customer uses a specific variant, it is configured per trading partner rather than developed from scratch. **Can it handle consignment and line-side stock?** Yes. Consignment stock at customer sites is tracked separately, consumed on their pull signal, and invoiced accordingly. **Does it support PPAP requirements?** It provides the traceability, process records and inspection data that PPAP submissions draw on. It does not produce the submission for you, and we would rather say so than imply otherwise. **How are schedule changes handled?** Incoming schedules are compared against the previous version and changes highlighted by horizon, so a planner sees what moved rather than re-reading the whole schedule. **Is this suitable for aftermarket parts distribution?** Yes. Multi-warehouse stock, trade pricing, fast order entry and carrier integration cover aftermarket distribution as well as OEM supply. ## Relevant solution pages - **Order Management Software** - Take, allocate, fulfil and invoice orders from one screen - with live stock, part-shipments, back orders and contract pricing handled automatically. https://cubeerp.co.uk/software/order-management-software - **Manufacturing Software** - Bills of materials, works orders, routings, shop-floor booking and real job costing - for businesses that make things to order. https://cubeerp.co.uk/software/manufacturing-software - **Barcode & Traceability Software** - Batch and serial traceability from goods-in to despatch, with certificates attached and a recall answered in minutes. https://cubeerp.co.uk/software/barcode-traceability-software - **Wholesale & Distribution Software** - Trade pricing, multi-warehouse stock, fast order entry, pick-pack-despatch and carrier integration for wholesalers and distributors. https://cubeerp.co.uk/software/wholesale-distribution-software ## Related industries - **Engineering & Fabrication** - ERP for subcontract machinists, fabricators and engineering firms working to drawing, to order and to a promised date. https://cubeerp.co.uk/industries/engineering-fabrication - **Electronics & Electrical Assembly** - ERP for electronics manufacturers and EMS providers - deep BOMs, component shortages, serial traceability and test records. https://cubeerp.co.uk/industries/electronics-assembly - **Plastics & Rubber Moulding** - ERP for moulders and extruders - tooling, cycle times, cavity counts, regrind and machine data from the shop floor. https://cubeerp.co.uk/industries/plastics-rubber ## Contact - **Product:** CubeERP - **Trading name of:** Cube Systems Limited (company number 17220899, ICO registration number ZC216972) - **Email:** hello@cubeerp.co.uk - **Sales:** sales@cubeerp.co.uk - **Support:** support@cubeerp.co.uk - **Telephone:** 01234 672 617 (+441234672617) - **Address:** Unit 11, Olney Business Park, Osier Way, Olney, Buckinghamshire, MK46 5FP - **Opening hours:** Monday to Friday, 9am to 5.30pm - **Part of:** Crushed Ice Group (https://crushedicegroup.co.uk)