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