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Automotive Supplier Industry Solutions 

Intelligence and tools to target opportunities, formulate new product business cases, forecast financials and volumes, assess competitors and technologies and design and manufacture more efficiently.

  • Automotive suppliers rely on the success and well-being of the OEM client base to ensure their own long-term viability. They must stay abreast of OEMs strategies and products while commercializing their own new technologies, optimising their capacity and monitoring their competition.

    Suppliers trust IHS for the insight and tools they need to make better business decisions. Covering over 130 auto makers across 90 countries, our global sales, production and powertrain forecasts for light-, medium- and heavy-duty vehicles are only the beginning of what we offer. Our unbiased industry intelligence, ranging from technology roadmaps and competitive market share, to tools that manage your financial and operational forecasts, can help your organisation make better planning decisions, avoid risk, grow your business share and run your product development and manufacturing smoothly and efficiently.
    Finance, Corp. Dev. & Strategy

    Finance, Corporate Development & Strategy

    • Identify and size new markets
    • Acquire and partner for growth
    • Forecast margin performance of business units, products and customers, including alternative market scenarios
    • Allocate capital investment for highest return
    • Monitor the outlook and viability of new technologies
    • Evaluate competitors' strategies
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    Sales & Marketing

    • Identify, prioritise and target future OEM and tier one supplier opportunities
    • Forecast revenue and margins for business units, products and customers, including alternate market scenarios
    • Assess business case of each request-for-quote customer opportunity
    • Commercialise new products and technologies
    • Assess share of market for your competitors and clients
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    Research & Development and Product Planning

    • Understand customers' needs and technology paths
    • Develop new technologies for competitive advantage
    • Assess business case for technologies under development
    • Assess competitive and disruptive product technologies
    • Expedite time to market
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    Engineering

    • Understand customers' needs and technology paths
    • Identify cost reduction ideas for vehicle bill-of-materials
    • Benchmark competitors' systems and components
    • Reduce weight and part count
    • Ensure best-practice design standards and optimization testing
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    Manufacturing

    • Optimise short-term production scheduling and vendor inventory
    • Forecast long-term production capacity needs
    • Obtain daily part change updates
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    Supply Chain & Procurement

    • Identify and assess new sources of supply
    • Lower inventory costs
    • Forecast mid- to long-term key input material demand and costs
    • Negotiate steel and other commodity prices to reduce supply chain costs
    • Implement supplier cost reduction ideas for your product bill of materials
    • Track bill-of-material costs improvements and forecast margin impact
    • Formulate bill-of-material spend analytics for commodity and vendor strategy
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