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Saphran Solutions, CSM Worldwide and ITW Deltar Canada & ITW
Superb Products Announce Forecasting and quoting Solution Implementation.
Farmington Hills, Michigan, July
30, 2007 - Saphran Solutions, based
in Farmington Hills, Michigan, announced that in partnership with Northville-based
global automotive market forecasting company CSM Worldwide they have
implemented its PartBase™ and QuoteBase™ software
at two of ITW's business units. One ITW (Illinois Tool Works) business
unit is Superb Products in Sterling Heights and Port Huron, Michigan,
and the other is Deltar Canada in Concord, Ontario, near Toronto.
PartBase is
a business planning and forecasting software to make it much easier
and faster to link CSM Worldwide’s automotive
OEM vehicle forecast to a company’s parts. This can help improve
forecast and profit-planning accuracy. QuoteBase™ is a software
tool to track the RFQ (Request for Quote) process with detailed costing
and quoting support. Both tools work closely with Microsoft® Excel® to
generate enterprise-quality business-decision reports which significantly
lower cost, complexity, IT demands and training. Saphran and CSM Worldwide
support SmartLink technology to maintain the accuracy of monthly part
and vehicle-forecast updates and the ability to complete updates in
substantially less time.
“Saphran Solutions provides configurable and flexible integrated
forecasting and quoting software for automotive suppliers like ITW,” said
Brett Kurily, Superb Products General Manager. “PartBase and QuoteBase are
helping our commercial team reduce the number of manual non-integrated
spreadsheets and database steps while allowing us to keep our short-
and long-term business plan always up to date.”
“This is the kind of win-win partnership that Deltar Canada was
looking for providing the improved commercial software via a hosted-software
approach to keep the upfront cost low while getting started quickly,” Tony
Schwehr, Deltar Canada General Manager, added. “We have found
Saphran’s customer support to be very responsive, plus their
training and user adoption support has been excellent.”
“We worked with ITW Superb Products and Deltar Canada to identify
and configure key automotive supplier capabilities and attributes that
were specific to these two ITW business units,” said Mr. Kenneth
Q. Bassey, CEO of Saphran Solutions. “The end result is that
we launched the software quickly and configured it for fast user adoption.
Our automotive and custom manufacturing customers enjoy the regularity
at which CSM Worldwide’s forecast data is updated which is directly
linked to the customers corresponding parts and part attributes. ITW’s
business units are innovative and disciplined in their progressive
commercial management approaches. We are looking forward to growing
our relationship with ITW and supporting their continued commercial
leadership.
“ITW has been a valued CSM Worldwide customer for over three
years in using our Automotive Production Forecasts to help improve
their global business forecasting,” said John Brennan, CSM Worldwide’s
VP Global Business Development. “We are excited to help them
gain additional speed and insight by using PartBase in
sync with CSM AutoBase to more tightly link their part information,
pricing, costing and equipment to the CSM OEM program production volumes
that we provide each month. ITW is freeing up valuable commercial time
that will allow them to focus on more strategic business improvements
enabled by real-time business forecasts. CSM is committed to supporting
automotive suppliers’ commercial best-practice improvements.”
CSM Worldwide and Saphran Solutions offer automotive executives educational
workshops and commercial management thought leadership articles that
can be accessed at www.saphran.com or www.csmauto.com. Saphran Solutions
has been supported by Automation Alley incubator services, www.automationalley.org.
CSM Worldwide and Saphran Solutions will be at the Management Briefing
Seminars for Automotive Supplier executives from August 6 to 10 in
Traverse City, Michigan. ITW Superb Products and Deltar Canada offer
OEMs and Tier 1s high-quality and cost-effective fasteners for many
applications with more information at www.itwautomotive.com.
About Saphran Solutions
Saphran Solutions, with offices in Farmington Hills, Michigan, is an
independent software developer providing automotive teams with enterprise-wide
integrated commercial management capability that works with ERP and
PLM systems to improve profit growth and certainty. It currently markets
PartBase,
a forecasting and business planning system that integrates directly
with CSM Worldwide’s Autobase automotive market forecasts;
QuoteBase,
a quoting and costing RFQ accuracy and speed accelerator; and CapacityBase™,
a forward-looking capacity and throughput-optimization planning tool.
For more information please call (248) 522-7000, Email: info@saphran.com or visit www.saphran.com.
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, Frankfurt, London,
Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai, Grand Rapids, São Paulo, Budapest and
Goa.
Fore more information please call (248) 380-9000, Email: info@csmauto.com
or visit www.csmauto.com.
About ITW
ITW is a $14.1 billion in revenues diversified manufacturer of highly
engineered components and industrial systems and consumables. The company
consists of approximately 750 business units in 49 countries and employs
some 55,000 people. ITW Superb Products and Deltar Canada supply a
wide range of industry-leading plastic fasteners that continue to set
standards for design versatility and reliability.
For more information please call (248) 589-2500, Email: info@itwautomotive.com or
visit www.itwautomotive.com.
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