Saphran Business Forecasting Software

Ongoing enterprise forecasts for your future revenue, costs, capacity and material needs and margins is paramount for effective decision-making. Saphran's encrypted software-as-a-service toolset links client parts data with IHS Automotive forecasts, their own market forecasts and additional strategic scenarios while applying lean principles to processes of forecasting and costing/quoting business. The software, developed by Saphran Solutions, an IHS partner firm, and powered by IHS Automotive forecasts, was created with input from over 50 automotive suppliers and is in use with numerous IHS Automotive clients. The software has enjoyed 100% launch success to improve business planning accuracy and productivity with enhanced market risk mitigation capabilities.

Saphran's PartBase helps clients with:

• Strategic margin management of products and business units
• Creating and dashboarding key predictive performance indicators (KPPIs) to drive enterprise performance
• Capacity optimization
• Continuous commercial improvement and innovation
• Strategic business targeting
• Long-term cost and material planning
• Commercializing technology

Benefits:

• Improve commercial team productivity
• Reduce long lead time and effort to create annual and strategic plan
• Perform market scenarios and risk analysis
• Spot market exceptions and changes and adjust plan
• Easily compare forecasts to actual shipments
• Integrate with ERP, MRP, PLM and finance systems
• Support all business functions using and enhancing consensus managed forecast that is always up to date

"PartBase installs fast, is user friendly, and allows full book of business part load including targeted, quoted, awarded, and production parts. Best of all, it automatically links monthly AutoBase updates with one click."
- Planning Manager, Automotive Supplier

"...turned our 4-month business planning process into a 3-day process with more accurate results. We now make decisions in real time."
- Lydall Automotive

By integrating proprietary Part Information with IHS Automotive Sales, Production and Powertrain forecasts, Saphran's Business Forecasting Software has enabled clients to experience immediate high-value process benefits:

• 50% to 70% more efficient forecasting
• More frequent forecast updates
• Rapidly build alternate market scenarios
• 50% to 90% More Accurate Part Level Forecasting
• One-click update of IHS Automotive Forecast with your parts

Transformational benefits include:

• Strategic Business Plan is rolling and "always on"
• Quickly model enterprise impact of alternate market scenarios
• Analyze by Customers, OEMs, Product Types, Strategic Business Units/Plants
• Engage in ongoing Strategic Management, not just once-a-year budgeting
• Align Strategic Planning with Tactical Execution/Operational through Key Predictive Performance Indicators (KPPIs)

About IHS Automotive

Formerly IHS Global Insight Automotive Group and CSM Worldwide

Since 1968 and 1991, respectively, IHS Global Insight and CSM Worldwide have been providing industry analysis, forecasts, data, and consulting services to automotive manufacturers, suppliers, and financial organizations involved with the automotive industry. Following the 2010 acquisition of CSM Worldwide, we have joined forces to create the automotive group at IHS. Collectively, we offer the most comprehensive content and deepest expertise and insight on the automotive industry available anywhere in the world today. Our qualifications include:

• 130 automotive experts, fluent in more than 15 languages, on site in 11 countries to cover the global automotive market
• Analysts with an average of over 10 years of industry experience
• More than 650 customers, accounting for over 85% of the world's top OEMs and suppliers
• Supported by over 350 economists and analysts covering more than 170 industries in over 200 countries
• Access to the world's largest commercial economic and financial database
• Reliable intelligence and insight from the most consistently accurate forecaster in the industry

About Saphran

Saphran enables automotive suppliers and other "make to order" and "engineer to order" manufacturing enterprises to achieve dramatic efficiencies and increased profitability through Closed Loop Commercial Optimization. We shrink the gap between business planning and business performance for custom manufacturers.

By leveraging your enterprise data and providing direct access to market forecast data, Saphran accelerates costing and quotation processes while providing the ability to forecast and model future business scenarios.

Visit the Saphran website to learn more.