Bi-Directional Demand Management Software 

Optimize your supply chain efficiency with integrated demand and fulfillment management, seamlessly bridging operations and communications with both your customers and suppliers

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Supply chain surprises can lead to significant setbacks, including financial losses, wasted time, and eroded customer trust. Even positive events, like an unexpected surge in customer demand, can disrupt the balance of procurement, production, and transportation, leading to increased supplier costs.  

Demand management software plays a pivotal role in navigating these challenges. It involves accurately forecasting, planning, and controlling vehicle demand and related products. This strategic approach is essential for aligning production, managing inventory levels effectively, and allocating resources efficiently. The goal is to fulfill customer requirements while minimizing expenses, enhancing profitability, and communicating any impacts to your suppliers. 

TrueAuto delivers a digitally integrated and collaborative supply chain that allows OEMs, tier suppliers, and logistics providers to anticipate and adapt to demand fluctuations more swiftly and competently through enhanced communication and coordination, streamlining supply chain operations and securing a competitive edge in the market. 

Built for Automotive

Expands Tier 1 suppliers' system capabilities to digitally engage with Tier 2 suppliers, ensuring a level playing field that minimizes risk and cost

From release accounting to 3-way matching to cumulative management and more, automotive supply chain and finance professionals confront a complex set of industry-specific business rules, practices, and process requirements. 

TrueAuto helps automotive trading partners build and manage highly streamlined, automated supply chains that increase competitive velocity and efficiency, resulting in significant benefits at every step of the forecast-to-cash cycle: 

  • Instant notifications of demand changes requiring action 
  • Improved forecasting 
  • Reduced procurement and inventory costs 
  • Replacement of outdated production methodologies 
  • Lower scrappage rates 
  • Faster time to market 
  • Stronger cashflow 
  • Stronger customer value and loyalty 
  • Faster, more profitable growth 
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These proven results are available through a seamless, end-to-end solution that meets all MMOG/LE materials management standards and is approved and used by Honda and thousands of other leading manufacturers. 

Grow Stronger in All Directions

Here’s how bi-directional demand management software from TrueAuto is transforming automotive supply chains:

Automotive OEMs 

TrueAuto enables Automotive OEMs and Suppliers to streamline the exchange and analysis of data between trading partners worldwide, enabling a real-time flow of demand and fulfillment data critical for production, reducing lead times, cutting costs, and enabling businesses to respond more quickly to changing market conditions. 

Bi-directional demand management and automation are enabled through a comprehensive set of advanced features including: 

  • 3-way matching – from demand to shipment to invoice 
  • Real-time visibility into every part/product at every stage 
  • Instant demand exception alerts 
  • Release accounting of forecasts and firm orders 
  • Cumulative management – full tracking of what has been shipped, received, and in-transit 
  • Integration with any internal/external system, including ERP, WMS and TMS 

Tier Suppliers 

TrueAuto empowers automotive suppliers to accurately match customer demand with procurement, production, inventory, and transportation practices. This enables businesses to synchronize operations at each step in their complex supply chains.  

The results are impressive: increased speed, resilience, and customer value; reduced costs (and headaches); improved cashflow; and uninterrupted compliance with customer requirements. 

Key features of this lead-edge solution include: 

  • 3-way matching – from demand to shipment to invoice 
  • Real-time visibility into every part/product 
  • Instant demand exception alerts 
  • Release accounting of forecasts and firm orders 
  • Cumulative management – full tracking of what has been shipped, received, and in-transit 
  • Integration with any internal/external system, including ERP, WMS and TMS 

Logistics Providers 

Extending demand management visibility to trusted 3PL, 4PL and other transportation partners enables these businesses to identify and secure the best transportation resources and pricing for every load, including complex multi-step shipments.  

TrueAuto also integrates with any transportation management system, ensuring that automotive suppliers and OEMs can track every part/product from shipment to receipt. 

Other fey features of this end-to-end solution include: 

  • 3-way matching – from demand to shipment to invoice 
  • Release accounting of forecasts and firm orders 
  • Cumulative management – full tracking of what has been shipped, received, and in-transitÂ