Completed WMS projects
Atos Origin

Supply Chain Management at BMW
Customers
BMW
Completion
30.07.2002
Branch
- Automotive industry
Description
Task description
The business activities of the BMW Group extend well beyond automobile production. The Group's variety and flexibility is evidenced by, for example, the BMW Group Financial Services, softlab GmbH for system development and IT applications, and the Bavaria Wirtschaftsagentur, international insurance specialists.
Business Challenges
- Creation of a control system that ensures provision of seats in the required order for further automobile assembly
- The large variety of leather seats (>10.000 different models) requires a very complex planning and controlling
Our Solution
- Application of the SCM solution eFORS to ensure a control that is synchronous with all steps of leather seat production, such as punching, stitching, pre-assembly, and padding.
- The inventory management system ICAM+WMS controls the storage of all semi-finished and finished parts in picking location, as well as their delivery to the assembly line in the correct order
The Results
- Exact planning and controlling of the complex leather seat production
- Flexible expansion to further models
Contact person
Winfried Ende
Telephone: +49 (2408) 148 - 226
winfried.ende@atosorigin.com





















































































