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MeRLIN - Strategic Sourcing Solution for Automotive Industry

Mitigate Automotive Supply Chain Risks with the Best Procurement Solution

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How can MeRLIN help fine-tune your Automotive Sourcing Strategy?

With sourced parts and components constituting a major part in the manufacturing process, the Automotive Industry relies heavily on supply chains and has complex procurement needs. Intense competition and increasing expectations from customers compel automotive manufacturers and suppliers to innovate constantly. This helps to manufacture products at scale while also keeping a check on costs & risks, while improving performance. MeRLIN provides powerful capabilities to address the complex sourcing needs of the automotive industry.

Optimize your Direct Spend

Improve sourcing efficiency and profitability through automation and planning using advanced analytics with BoM level visibility

Build Strategic Supplier Relationships

Improve collaboration with suppliers and convert them to strategic partners

Reduce Risks

Monitor and mitigate supply risks based on data driven insights on supplier performance, delivery time, etc.

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Features of MeRLIN - The Best Sourcing and Procurement Software for Automobile Industry

Innovative and comprehensive features designed to meet direct sourcing needs of automotive manufacturers and suppliers that help source quality parts and also reduce the time to market significantly.

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Get Complete Visibilty of Procurement Activites and Build Solid E-Sourcing Strategies

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  • Improve collaboration between Procurement, Engineering and Design teams through integrations with Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) tools
  • Track and monitor Engineering Changes to the BOM and plan sourcing activities and avoid errors due to manual procurement activities
  • Reduce material costs and improve savings with Should-cost analysis using detailed Part Cost Breakdown
  • Improve sourcing activities with unmatched program visibility and transparency to identify demands across the ecosystem
  • Get a complete view of your sourcing programs with effective end-to-end program maintenance
  • Diversify your supply base and improve competitiveness using Global Sourcing
  • Consolidate demand to drive volumes and improve bargaining power
  • Drive sourcing efficiencies with the request type that meets your business needs - RFI, RFP, RFQ or eAuction
  • Optimize your sourcing processes with configurable Commodity Response Templates for parameters impacting TCO
  • Map a supplier to a group of items belonging to a category or commodity for focused supplier base management
  • Execute periodic online price revision reviews with suppliers

Enhance your Purchasing Power with Strategic Sourcing Best Practices

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Improve Decision Making with Advanced Sourcing and Procurement Analytics

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  • Improve performance of your sourcing projects & programs with insights from out of the box Program Lifecycle Analytics with BoM level visibility
  • View progression of BoM cost over all the available BoM revisions or compare two versions of the same BoM of a Program to identify differences
  • Recognize dynamics of commodities in the market with out-of-the-box Purchase Price Variance (PPV) Analytics
  • Track performance over the life of the project or program
  • Drill down on detailed performance for commodities, regions, plants, buyers, etc.
  • Build sourcing strategies based on multi-year program analytics

Strategic Sourcing Solutions for Automotive Manufacturers

Strategic Sourcing

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Contract Management

Requisition Management

Award Management

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Uncover meaningful insights from your sourcing data and trends that translates to new opportunities for savings and growth.

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