One platform. All projects. Full control.
Project Management for Automotive Suppliers
VISTAlution Project Management offers Tier 1-3 automotive suppliers unparalleled control and execution of their projects. Its unique "in project integration" empowers starting APQP from the first moment.
Experience Project Management with state-of-the-art workflows and features for role-model team collaboration.
VISTAlution empowers project managers to drive the team efficiently from project start to a successful product launch and beyond.
Challenges to be mastered
Keeping timing, tasks, and product launches on track
Running dozens of projects in parallel puts real pressure on your PM team. How do you guarantee that all tasks are completed on time and to the required quality standard?
Success depends on one thing: keeping every stakeholder aligned on schedules, assumptions, and tasks. However, this is hardly possible when different teams work with different, independent systems.
That’s why VISTAlution offers an integrated solution for project planning and management. A transparent, automated APQP workflow enables you to keep track of projects at all times and successfully guide them into series production.
Failing a project is no option and can cost millions.
The Top Pain Points in Project Management
and how VISTAlution solves them
Complexity - Too Many Projects
"I'm juggling 30 projects at once - and without a single, centralized view, I'm constantly losing track of where each one actually stands."
Transparent
"VISTAlution brings all your projects into one centralized dashboard, so you see exactly where every project stands - at a single glance, anytime."
Manual Coordination and Data Collection
"I spend hours pulling data from spreadsheets, emails, and different systems, and chasing colleagues for updates - instead of actually steering my projects."
Integrated
"VISTAlution brings your data together automatically, so you spend your time steering projects instead of chasing updates."
Data Discontinuities Between Sales and PM
"Every time a project moves from proposal to project, I have to re-enter the same data - creating duplicates, errors, and wasted time before I've even started."
Connected
"VISTAlution keeps all relevant data in one system from the very beginning - so the handover from proposal to project simply disappears: no re-entry, no duplicates, no lost time."
Capacity and Resource Conflicts
"My best specialists are booked across too many projects at once, and without a portfolio view, I don't spot the bottleneck until a project has already stalled."
Controlled
"VISTAlution gives you a real-time portfolio view of every resource, so you spot bottlenecks before they stall a project - not after."
Late Risk Escalation
"My most expensive problems - schedule conflicts, capacity gaps, pending approvals - only surface once they've already become critical and there's no cheap way out."
Proactive
"VISTAlution surfaces risks, conflicts, and pending approvals early, so you can act while a problem is still small - and still cheap to solve."
Unclear Responsibilities (Ownership)
"Across globally distributed teams, it's not always clear who owns which task - so things fall through the cracks and deadlines slip by before anyone notices."
Accountable
"VISTAlution assigns clear ownership for every task across your global teams, so nothing falls through the cracks and no deadline slips unnoticed."
Lack of Auditability and Traceability
"I have to prove complete traceability from RFQ to EOP - but when every decision and approval is scattered across emails and local files, each audit turns into a Herculean task."
Traceable
"VISTAlution keeps user actions logged in one place from RFQ to EOP, so your next audit takes minutes instead of days."
Inefficient Gate Reviews
"Every gate review means painstakingly compiling the current status from a dozen different sources before I can even walk into the meeting."
Efficient
"VISTAlution keeps every project's status live and up to date, so you walk into any gate review fully prepared - without the last-minute scramble."
APQP Workflow Management
with pre-defined workflows including phases, tasks and responsibilities
Accelerate your APQP process and get your tasks done faster. Set up your specific workflow with sprints for all phases of your product launch. Define tasks and subtasks and easily add "Change Management Requests" at any time.
The Drag & Drop Kanban Board provides a quick status overview and convenient access to tasks.
Project Scheduling
auto-generated, always up-to-date
Your project timeline gets generated automatically based on your predefined workflow template. Adjust the timing of tasks and milestones with one mouse-click.
The VISTAlution Gantt View helps to provide project transparency to your team and customers. And it avoids manually maintained project plans in other applications, such as MS Project.
Project Milestones
to keep an eye on relevant cornerstones of the development process
Your customers expect you to complete your tasks on time during the development phase so that they can comply with their vehicle SOPs.
VISTAlution helps you keep track of Project Milestones to avoid the risk of contractual penalties and ensure customer satisfaction.
Key Financial Data
to control the progress of the project financials over the different project phases, using definitions such as Gross Margin, Manufacturing Costs and Capex.
Project Costs
to control the progress of the project costs over the different project phases, using definitions such as Cost Category, Costs, Hours spent and Responsibility.
Approvals
to track approvals of documents, dates and other relevant project aspects, using definitions such as Approval Date, Approver, Status and Description.
External Links
to link with relevant information e.g. from customer's websites or directories, using definitions such as Link or Description.
Specific Actions
to track progress of spontaneously required actions, using definitions such as Responsibility, Action Name, Action Status and Completion.
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Tracking custom Metrics
to collect or visualize relevant data and manage approvals
Take advantage of complete flexibility to define and track your own project metrics. No more compromises - VISTAlution can track everything you want to track, with various options for updating or editing your data.
Efficient Project Status Reviews
with the live PM dashboard, providing full transparency and interactive status control
Don't miss deadlines and due dates - with the live PM Dashboard VISTAlution provides ultimate control and flexibility to manage your APQP workflows. Understand responsibilities, task progress and identify bottlenecks with one view.
Filter projects that are relevant for your reviews and discuss highlighted topics with your team.
Achieve a new dimension in project management.
Who benefits from VISTAlution Project Management
- Efficiency and quality enhancements of your PM teams
- A state-of-the-art solution for PM to manage APQP (Advanced Product Quality Planning)
- Profitability and competitiveness increase for your organization
- Transparency and live control of all projects via central dashboard
- Faster in identifying and counteracting risks
- Efficient communication with Project Managers and Project Teams
- Full transparency over your projects
- Efficient communication with your project teams
- Less chasing up to ensure tasks are completed
- Faster and more successful project launches
- Live access to project deliverables
- Faster completion of APQP tasks per Drag & drop
- Less manual data and information exchange