Automotive Industry

An adaptable cloud service designed to assist automotive OEMs and suppliers in fostering innovation.

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Auto industry functionality powered in the cloud

These are unprecedented times for automotive OEMs, manufacturers, and suppliers. Organizations operating on outdated systems have likely exhausted all productivity gains. Modern advanced solutions, deployed in the cloud, are essential to leverage the latest capabilities for enhanced operational performance. Merino’s Automotive Solution is designed to offer industry-specific capabilities without extensive customizations or integrations. By leveraging the Infor® cloud platform built on Amazon Web Services® (AWS®) infrastructure and Infor OS, CloudSuite™ Automotive facilitates automatic upgrades, ensuring access to the latest enterprise functionalities. It enables global business, networked analytics, and AI-augmented user experiences for businesses to:

  • Stay current on the latest versions of your software.
  • Provide users with access on any device anywhere.
  • Scale cloud services to handle usage peaks and valleys.
  • Reduce total cost of ownership and capital investment.
  • Integrate cloud and on-premises applications with pre-built APIs.
  • Connect data across cloud and legacy applications for enterprise insights.
  • Democratize analytics for better decisions

Welcome change with CloudSuite™ Automotive

From chip shortages to truck barricades on the US–Canada border that have halted deliveries to Detroit, and the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, the automotive industry faces significant challenges resulting in lost sales and dissatisfied customers. In response to this evolving market landscape, agility, supply chain visibility, and innovation are paramount. Automotive OEMs, manufacturers, and suppliers must reconsider their business strategies within this environment. Despite the disruptions, these challenges also present extensive opportunities for automotive companies prepared to adopt new business models to navigate through these turbulent times, while also: • Supporting new organizational initiatives • Connecting people, processes, and data • Embracing electric vehicles and sustainability • Improving the driver experience CloudSuite™ Automotive offers the flexibility to revolutionize your operations. Tailored for the automotive sector, this digital solution boasts robust, time-tested capabilities to address customer needs, enhance workforce efficiency, and introduce innovative products to the market ahead of rivals. With cloud-based deployment, it guarantees efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and comprehensive support for worldwide operations, alongside industry-leading security protocols. CloudSuite™ Automotive empowers automotive OEMs, manufacturers, and suppliers with the agility required to navigate today's challenges.

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Top six reasons to use CloudSuite™ Automotive

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Innovate faster to keep pace with Industry changes
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Reduce total cost of ownership and speed time to value
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Quickly scale infrastructure to support new business models
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Simplify security and compliance with automatic updates
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Align the customer experience by streamlining the supply chain
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Support agility and adopt best practices to improves performance

Comprehensive oversight of processes

Additional services augmenting and expanding CloudSuite™ Automotive are accessible. Reach out to your sales representative for further details. Users have the option to expand the core service with pre-configured integrations utilizing Infor technology, enabling

Enhance the speed of product design and development while expediting market entry with integrated product lifecycle management (PLM) capabilities. Eliminate discrepancies between R&D/product development, engineering, and manufacturing through seamless information flow from design to production.

Offer advanced levels of automation for factory, shop floor, and warehouse operations, enabling OEMs, manufacturers, and suppliers to streamline production processes, expedite inventory handling, monitor labor, and automate attendance operations.

Empower users to access and edit vital data on their mobile devices. Enhance process efficiency and boost productivity with mobile applications enabling users to receive real-time data and promptly address crucial tasks.

Provide assistance for standard automotive business practices and variations in trading partner practices, seamlessly integrating into an existing enterprise system landscape.

Efficiently integrate systems to expedite product launches, enhance design efficiency, and reduce the expenses associated with new product introductions. Seamlessly provide transparent access to essential product information among suppliers, subcontractors, developers, customers, and stakeholders.

Offer insight into every customer interaction point spanning sales, marketing, customer service, and support teams. Robust customer profiles and sales productivity tools aid users in identifying opportunities to optimize each interaction and streamline sales operations.

Enhance reliability, operational efficiency, and asset planning and scheduling for maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) to optimize and reduce the overall cost of assets.

Provide your service technicians with the necessary information, parts, and tools to conduct field repairs, inspections, calibrations, or preventive maintenance on OEM vehicles or specialized components.

Offer tailored metrics for users to generate their own KPIs and customize metrics. Additionally, the software offers comprehensive enterprise data for users requiring data integration across Infor applications or third-party platforms.

Process documents, intelligently categorize them, and extract relevant data. This data, along with the documents, can then be seamlessly transferred to CloudSuite™ Automotive via an API.

Coordinate and oversee collaboration with international trading partners, covering various transportation modes, logistics planning, and execution.

Pre-built localizations facilitate quick implementation across 68 countries and 26 languages.

We Understand Automotive

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Understand your consumers. Build solutions that meet their expectations

The automotive industry is largely consumer-driven. Enterprise solutions can take the burden off your shoulders, automating the many processes involved in the manufacturing of an automotive equipment.

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