Get the best possible sales forecast. Without complexity. Without chaos. Without stress.
The “All-in-One” Sales Planning and Program Management Solution
tailored for Tier 1-3 Automotive Suppliers
VISTAlution provides transparency across the entire project lifecycle and combines forecasting, budgeting and strategic planning in one intuitive process. This increases planning accuracy and enables building solid data-driven strategies.
Integrates all relevant internal and external data and empowers maximum consistency and accuracy in forecasting
Potential savings, efficiency increases and optimizations
Represents non-binding potential savings, depending on the current processes and size of the organization
Integrated Program Management empowers qualified APQP
for successful development of projects to series production and beyond
VISTAlution provides comprehensive project control across all development phases, offers state-of-the-art workflow management with automatic project scheduling. This empowers audit-proof project development and successful SOPs.
VISTAlution supports you in mastering key challenges
Growing challenges demand suitable data and efficient processes for sound corporate decisions
Mastering "Complexity" in order not to be mastered by it
- Gain cristal ball insights into your Part Numbers over the entire Project Lifecycle
- No confusing ERP codes - a system that speaks your language
- One simplified and optimized planning process for intuitive forecasting
Identifying "Risks" in good time to counteract them
- Identify projects at risk, define causes, take countermeasures
- Understanding the impact of risks on your business
- Get inflation risks under control with advanced price management
Considering the influences of your environment
- Understand SOP & EOP changes of vehicles, you supply to
- Consider forecast changes at OEMs and customer call-offs automatically
- Understand the impact of different Exchange Rates
Eliminate your manual processes and get digital
- The right step towards digitization - get rid of manual data management and Excel files
- Gain a single-source-of-truth for Project Data for your entire organization
- Use high quality data as source for your S&OP and other digitization initiatives
Accelerate your business - make the right decisions faster
- Live access to reliable data for your decision making
- Tremendous time savings for your annual planning activities
- Sales Reporting at a button press
90M
Light Vehicles
450+
Platforms
320+
SOPs
130+
OEMs
… require billions of products – properly managed, tracked and launched
We have the tools to successfully accomplish this
Our Planning & Management Solutions
For next level automotive business management
Sales Planning & Forecasting
Continuous Forecasting as central Sales Management Solution
Program Management
State-of-the-Art APQP Workflows as central Program Management Solution
Document Management
Automated In-Project Document Storage for organization-wide access
Procurement Forecast
Automatically generated BOM level Forecast based on continuous Sales Forecast
The Difference to other Planning, PM and CRM Solutions
A seamless process from lead identification to successful series production and the entire project life cycle
The "Project" as central planning unit instead of pure Part Numbers
- Identify new opportunities based on integrated Market Data
- Track key dates from Prototype SOP until end of the Project Lifecycle
- Part Numbers are automatically integrated from the ERP system and linked properly
A continuous forecasting approach instead of manual one-time planning
- Intuitive Forecasting - connetced with Market Data
- Algorithm-supported demand planning considering SOP/EOP dates
- Frozen Budget versions generated with one mouse-click
Uniquely integrated Project Management for successful project launches
- Seamless integrated handover from Sales to PM
- Consistent data and project understanding between Customer, Sales and PM
- No duplication of data maintenance efforts and no delays
Next level APQP with state-of-the-art Workflows
- Pre-defined Workflows with responsibilities and due dates assigned
- Kanban and Gantt-Charts to manage workflow tasks and timing
- Audit-proof change log of all workflow related activities
Comprehensive real-time control on one view
- Full transparency and control of all workflow statuses and due dates
- Interactive PM Dashboard for efficient Phase Reviews
- Flexible to adopt Change Management Requests at any time
Why should you choose VISTAlution Automotive?
VISTAlution is the “S” in your S&OP process: it takes you from confusing silo management to complete clarity and strategic foresight. This allows you to transform data into accurate sales and procurement forecasts – giving you a decisive competitive advantage.
VISTAlution is a data-driven, collaborative, and audit-proof platform that enables 360° project transparency and ensures consistent data quality. Sales, Project Management, Marketing and Procurement teams all work with the same reliable information – promoting shared understanding and coordinated decision-making.
Complete Lifecycle Management
From first Prototype to the last part supplied - the entire Project Lifecycle is covered.
All important milestones
are considered and visualized
Intelligent Data Integrations
All relevant internal and external data
is integrated, connected and taken into account in your planning
Customizable planning structure
Your Planning Process can be set up
according to your business structure -
considering all Supply Levels
and Products
Reporting & Analytics included
Real-time Business Intelligence based on your Planning Data - including Version Comparisons with Deviation Analysis
and individual Sales Reports
"One-System" Approach
Forecast, Budget and Strategic Plan -
consistent and comparable
in one system and one process
Top-Down/Bottom-Up Planning
360° view of your Projects -
with two-directional planning process
for ultimate precision
Who benefits from VISTAlution
- The Management
- Faster to strategic business descisions based on solid data
- Higher planning precisions for better resilience
- Efficiency and quality enhancements of your teams
- Profitability and competitiveness increase for your organization
- Sales Teams
- Spares tiresome data preparation, recurring input activities and analysis tasks
- Reduces annual planning activities to a minimum
- Assists in negotiations and makes price management transparent
- Leaving you time to focus on important tasks
- Marketing Teams
- Absolves all data preparation, control and consolidation activities
- Forecasts, short and long-term plans are generated with a mouse-click
- Sales Reporting at a mouse-click
- More time for data interpretation and strategy development
- Employees in other areas
- Involvement in the planning process right from the first planning cycle, thus avoiding discrepancies
- Consensus through insight into project data from a single source (“single source of truth”)
- Improved project-specific communication with colleagues
- High-quality data as a basis for your planning
Credentials
Companies from the world’s top 20 automotive suppliers plan with our solution
What our customers say
Martin Kontny - Manager Global Sales Controlling & Planning
We were able to significantly increase our Planning accuracy. This enabled a more targeted procurement of resources and raw materials, more efficient use of R&D resources and led to higher customer satisfaction.
Özhan Nas - Director Quality
We have been able to realize large cost savings through better capacity utilization. The direct link between the sales plan and the capacity plan enables the AME team to allocate projects to machines more efficiently and thus to plan investments more precisely.
Let us show you how VISTAlution ...
- Zsaves you time and money - with the help of efficient processes and intelligent algorithms
- Zreduces your planning cycle - from 4-5 months to just 2 weeks
- Zautomates your reporting
- Zsimplifies the daily life of you and your team