PartBase™

Business Forecasting, Operations Planning,
and Risk Management Software

Business forecasting provides answers to the critical question, “What can I do today to improve my business tomorrow and make me profitable in the long term?

The PartBase software module from Saphran is a unique software solution that enables automotive suppliers to optimize profitability and manage risk by improving the process of planning, and by forecasting throughout the entire life cycle of a supplier’s product portfolio.

Powered by Market Forecast Data from CSM™

PartBase allows you to quickly and seamlessly merge your internal part and vehicle base information with external market forecast data from CSM, the leading provider of automotive market intelligence. The result: one comprehensive reporting tool and simulator, producing a living and dynamic forecast that stays viable and current. Automotive capacity planning, sales planning, and margin optimization all become concrete, data driven realities with PartBase.

Real-Time Data for Informed Business
Modeling and Profit Certainty

The powerful combination of Saphran's PartBase and CSM's market data enables you to create integrated reports that fit your company’s particular needs and are continuously viable and current. With the push of a button, you can update your reports and reduce response time to identify and seize strategic opportunities with preferred products and processes among your target customers.

This streamlined, dynamic system is the only automated forecasting system available that is compatible with both a proven subscription service of downloadable market intelligence and an automated costing and quoting system. The PartBase solution eliminates the need to cut and paste or manually enter data, and helps to ensure that forecast reports are based on accurate, current information.

Key Features

• Provides current and accurate reports to make strategic decisions about quoting, cost planning,
  outsourcing, capital investments, product mix, profit planning, target customers and target markets.
• Enables Account Managers to track and report on all revenue and margin assumptions for
  current and future programs, including cost per vehicle.
• Creates multiple “what if” simulations based on cost, price and volume relationships.
• Creates trending reports to constantly improve the quality of your forecast assumptions.
• Seamlessly aggregates data from global operations with common volume assumptions and centralized exchange rate management.
• Produces custom reports, including
       - Expandable account manager report
       - Volume projections
       - Application rate projections
       - Revenue projections
• Generates up-to-date reports within minutes, especially if linked to an automated costing
  and quoting system such as Saphran’s QuoteBase™ software module.
• Outputs data into Excel, Access or other comparable software if desired.

Volume Forecasting

Saphran's PartBase software module provides features that allow you to create, load, and
manage volume forecasts:

• File import of any CSM Formatted file (as reference forecasts).
• Import and update of CSM data using the CSM subscription service (also as reference forecasts).
• Ability to automatically update derived forecasts when the associated reference forecast is updated,
  or to lock a volume forecast and freeze all values, even if derived from a CSM reference forecast.
• Ability to create new volume forecasts from reference forecasts.
• Log all changes to forecasts, providing referential integrity and history.
• Patent-pending SmartLink™ technology allows your parts or projects volumes, revenues and costs
  to link to market volume updates with one click.
• Allow all users to view volume forecast data using the same interface.

Parts Management

PartBase includes features to create, store, and manipulate parts information in a forecast:

• Create new parts with appropriate attributes for the purposes of mapping to an application
  (ability limited to Account Manager role).
• Manage existing parts and their associated relationships to vehicle assemblies.
• Manage relationships of parts to applications using application rate and option ratio.
• Manage future pricing by contract plan.
• Import part information from Saphran’s Costing & Quoting solution.

Reporting/Analysis Interface

All users have the ability to run reports on the data to which they have access.
The reporting module allows you to:

• Select a volume forecast and standard report definition (canned report) to
  produce results.
• Easily report multiple forecast scenarios to see your business impact,
• Export completed report to a Microsoft Excel™ spreadsheet.
• Select from over 100 market and configurable part and project attributes.
• Dynamically generate reports quickly.
• Save report definitions.

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