About Saphran

Saphran, founded in April of 2001, is a Michigan corporation that specializes in implementing long-term forecasting and quoting solutions for automotive suppliers and other manufacturers.

Saphran was conceived out of the first-hand automotive supplier industry experiences of management. The company saw the challenges facing automotive suppliers in efficient forecasting and quoting and decided to create software modules to deliver value first to the automotive suppliers and then to other manufacturers. Saphran organized a handful of automotive suppliers ranging in size and products to serve as advisory companies to the design of the product. The software modules were designed with the utmost care through an iterative review process with these advisory companies.

In building the modules, Saphran incorporated principles of the Toyota Production System and "lean manufacturing" practices to enable "lean management" of processes that are critical to the success of every supplier. In doing so, the Saphran solution enables improvements in accuracy and efficiency of the most fundamentally important business processes in any manufacturing organization.

Today, Saphran offers its long-term forecasting PartBase™ and quoting QuoteBase™ modules. Saphran's modules enables efficient and accurate long-term forecasting, costing, quoting and cost planning. They are specifically designed for Tier I-II original equipment suppliers of custom-design products with sales between $50 million and 20 billion. Key benefits are achieved via structured collaboration for costing, quoting and cost planning: and direct access to information relevant to performing these functions. Key beneficiaries of the Saphran solutions include executives, sales and account managers, designers, manufacturing engineers and advanced buyers.

Features of Saphran's PartBase and QuoteBase modules include:

1. An automated workflow enabling structured collaboration of the people within the organization who prepare and approve quotes, regardless of their physical location.
2. Create multiple "what-if" statements and simulations based on cost, price and volume relationships; less painful and less time consuming.
3. Form-based input and approval screens accessible from any secure Internet browser.
4. An integrated database for the central storage of all historical cost data, quotations, and other information necessary for preparing new quotations.
5. Integration into "back office" software (ERP) systems for using up-to-date information regarding materials, machines and processes, in the different locations where a company may have manufacturing operations.
6. A format translator for submitting quotations in customer specific forms.
7. A flexible analysis module that allows cost planning and forecasting based on the data collected in the Database. The analysis functions may include capacity planning, ROI calculations (for equipment and processes), etc.
8. A subscription-based service for downloading vehicle forecasts directly.
   

©2002-08 Saphran Solutions Inc.