Tackling Challenges In the APQP Process - Automotive Insights Series

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Join Lloyd Rogers, Automotive Practice Leader at the vdR Group in the Automotive Insights Series as he address many of the challenges facing the automotive and supplier spaces.

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Hello, I am Lloyd Rogers and I help automotive companies like yours with unexpected costs taking place during the APQP process.  Over the past two years I have met with more than 50 automotive companies to discuss their many encounters while launching OEM products.  The greatest challenge is time to execute a consistent APQP process to PPAP… Once the customer provides a PO, the clock starts ticking to provide parts per the contractual agreement … and the PPAP delivery date does not change for most OEM programs.  Many suppliers lose time internally waiting for approvals from their own processes.  An example is budget approval to release funds for a project, such as ED&D, supplier tooling, or capital…  The APQP process includes many sub processes requiring signatures along with visible data for approval that may also take up significant time potentially delaying a program.  An example is quoting changes and managing the revised parts or assembly through all processes such as a drawing or tool release, along with data required to PPAP… Allow me to meet and discuss new solutions to reduce time and create an APQP health check, or project visibility for the executive team.  If your norm at launch is not meeting the financial goals based on the original quote on a program because of premium tooling, expedited shipments, reworks, multiple unpaid PPAP testing scenarios and others, then call me to discuss.  We have solutions to help reduce project timing, create a standard APQP dashboard, and offer project visibility to assist teams to be successful.  Over the next few weeks, I will be providing solutions geared to reduce time to market along with suggestions on how to create visibility for the entire team to ultimately achieve clearer decisions. The pandemic is now having program teams working from home and visibility of data is even more critical.  If your company still relies on spreadsheets, SharePoint to store data, and countless meetings to provide updates with manually created dashboards, we can help eliminate those time-consuming events that are only up to date during the meeting.  By eliminating one expedited shipment, yard hold, rework, or other unexpected charges, you could increase your brand image with your customer and potentially meet your profit metrics. If you are a CEO or executive contact me. I can provide a briefing and answer questions typically in less than an hour of your time. You can reach me simply at lloyd@vdr.com or you can go to our website at vdR.com. Thank You

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