Transform Automotive Supply Chain with Kinaxis Maestro: Driving Agility in a Complex World
The automotive industry is constantly navigating bumps and curves, requiring unparalleled speed and precision in its supply chain. To achieve supply chain excellence, automotive companies must move beyond traditional management to sophisticated orchestration. Kinaxis offers specialized supply chain solutions tailored specifically for the Automotive industry.
The Roadblocks: Automotive Supply Chain Challenges
Automotive suppliers and manufacturers operate within a challenging environment defined by global complexity. For instance, a major challenge is managing a global supply chain with many parts and many suppliers that are not localized, which can cause the supply chain to break.
Automotive companies must contend with:
Deep BOMs and Complex Supplier Networks
Kinaxis solutions are designed to help companies manage these complex supplier networks.
Material Shortages and Complexity of Vehicle Options
Organizations must navigate material shortages and deal with the chaos caused by the immense volume of vehicle options.
The Need for E2E Visibility
Combating the unexpected requires end-to-end visibility, better sensing, and optimized exceptions of management to preempt or immediately respond to disruption.
Orchestrating Success with Kinaxis Maestro™
Kinaxis Maestro™ is the answer to mastering uncertainty and taming complexity. It stands as the only AI-infused end-to-end supply chain platform.
Maestro™ functions as an AI-powered supply chain orchestration platform designed to turn complexity into a competitive advantage. It achieves this by fusing predictive, generative, and agentic AI to adapt quickly, simplify decisions, and deliver clear, actionable insights across every function.
How Maestro™ specifically helps the automotive sector
Managing Product Complexity
Using vehicle options to mix planning and feature BOMs, Kinaxis helps organizations manage the thousands of possible combinations in each program, ensuring the customer receives the right car at the right time.
Real-time Collaboration
Maestro™ enables supplier collaboration and multi-party orchestration functionality, which empowers teams to coordinate across the tiered supplier base, dealer network, and logistics ecosystem to get ahead of disruption.
Smarter Decision-Making
Kinaxis connects people, processes, and data across planning, procurement, manufacturing, and logistics, using real-time AI insights to anticipate disruptions and automate decisions.
Utilizing Kinaxis System Health Check for Continuous Improvement
Achieving long-term success with an end-to-end supply chain platform requires dedicated ongoing management and support. Although the sources do not explicitly use the term “System Health Check,” Kinaxis offers Professional Services and Support Services to aid in continuous improvement.
Kinaxis’s strong support services and commitment are vital for customers looking to accelerate the deployment and maximize the value of Maestro. Furthermore, Kinaxis provides extensive Training and Enablement through the Kinaxis learning center, including custom learning paths and certification, supporting the long-term competence of supply chain teams.
Simbus Application Managed Services: Sustaining Agility and Compliance
To sustain system optimization and maintain agility, many organizations rely on expert partners like Simbus, a Kinaxis partner. Simbus offers end-to-end solutions combining Supply Chain Planning, Data Analytics, and Enterprise AI.
While the sources do not specifically label their offering “Application Managed Services (AMS),” Simbus specializes in helping companies navigate the challenging VUCA world by combining deep domain expertise with easy-to-use technology. Their services, which include Concurrent Supply Chain Planning and Data Engineering & Gen AI, are instrumental for sustaining high performance.
Simbus has a proven track record of sustaining agility and compliance by:
Automating Complex Processes
They help clients automate complex supply chain processes.
System Integration
They integrate diverse enterprise systems, including SAP, which results in significant business benefits and improved agility across the supply chain.
By leveraging the technological superiority of platforms like Maestro and the industry knowledge of partners like Simbus, organizations can achieve key business objectives such as speed to market and profitable growth.
