Garrett Engine Boosting Systems Brings 36th Supplier on Board With Apexon Business Relationship Management (BRM)(TM)
Garrett Engine Boosting Systems Brings 36th Supplier on Board With Apexon Business Relationship Management (BRM)(TM)
Establishes One of the Largest Manufacturing Extended Enterprises Managed
Within a Single Business Solution
SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 14 Less than four months after
going live with the Apexon Business Relationship Management (BRM)(TM)
solution, Garrett Engine Boosting Systems is now bringing its 36th supplier
onto Apexon's business solution for managing an extended enterprise of design,
manufacturing, and supplier partners.
Garrett, a division of Honeywell International , is the world's
leading provider of turbochargers supplying the automotive and industrial
equipment sectors. The company is expanding its scope to now design and
manufacture complete air management and engine boosting systems.
"To really serve our customers well, we have become more of a custom
systems integrator, rather than purely a supplier of standard products. This
means that our core competency is heavily weighted towards supplier and
partner management," says Jerry Rockstroh, vice president, World Wide Supply
Chain at Garrett. "We chose to partner with Apexon because its business
software helps us quickly achieve stronger relationships with our suppliers in
a practical, effective way."
About Apexon BRM at Garrett
The Apexon Business Relationship Management (BRM) solution is a
comprehensive enterprise software suite comprised of six fully integrated
applications for managing an extended enterprise of design, manufacturing, and
supplier partners. Specifically, it includes BRM Planning, BRM Procurement,
BRM Production, BRM Quality, BRM Supplier Assessment, and BRM Issue
Resolution. Unlike enterprise resource planning (ERP) and supply chain
management (SCM) solutions which facilitate transactions and create
efficiencies within an organization, Apexon moves beyond an enterprise's
walls, enabling businesses to better manage outsourced relationships.
Garrett implemented Apexon's Web-based BRM application suite in early 2001
as part of its Supply Chain Collaboration initiative. Currently, Garrett is
using Apexon to collaborate with its North American suppliers, and plans to
extend the solution to its European operations later this year.
Apexon BRM provides Garrett with five core benefits:
-- Spotlighting potential problems: Using Apexon's real-time metrics and
reports, coupled with alert capabilities, Garrett buyers and planners
can instantly see deviations from plans, such as failure of suppliers'
to meet commitment deadlines, inventory shortages, and failures to
update monthly capacity estimates.
-- Collaborative issue resolution: unlike any other supply-chain
solution, Apexon gives Garrett a structured approach to working through
supply-chain glitches before they impact customer orders. Only Apexon
provides practical, proactive resolution paths that bridge the gap
between supply chain expectations and actual performance.
-- On-going supplier assessment: for the first time, Garrett can readily
evaluate its suppliers' performances in real-time, ensuring that a
variety of key metrics such as on-time delivery, defect ratio,
financial stability, and manufacturing capacity meet expectations.
-- Standardized business processes: Garrett uses Apexon's configurable
business processes to bring consistency to operations in procurement,
planning, quality management, and assessing suppliers. For example, the
system automatically prompts suppliers to commit to delivery dates and
amounts, minimizing part shortages and production delays.
-- Two-way information visibility across the extended enterprise: Apexon
integrates with Garrett's SAP system as well as its product data system
(encompassing engineering drawings, technical specifications, and
engineering change notifications). This enables its supplier network to
access and update information related to quotes, capacity, delivery
commitments, and consigned inventory in real time. Additionally, all
data associated with Garrett's short- and long-range plans is available
to partners, as appropriate, so that they have a continual, centralized
view of ongoing requirements.
With Apexon, suppliers select the format by which they exchange the
information with Garrett, including XML, e-mail, EDI, or WAP. Suppliers do not
need to download or install any software locally, and they can also import
data directly into their own systems.
About Garret Engine Boosting Systems
Garrett Engine Boosting Systems is a division of Honeywell's
Transportation and Power Systems SBU (Strategic Business Unit). Honeywell is a
US$24 billion diversified technology and manufacturing leader, serving
customers worldwide with aerospace products and services; control technologies
for buildings, homes and industry; automotive products; power generation
systems; specialty chemicals; fibers; plastics; and electronic and advanced
materials. Honeywell is one of the 30 stocks that make up the Dow Jones
Industrial Average and is also a component of the Standard & Poor's 500 Index.
Additional information on Garrett Engine Boosting Systems is available on the
Internet at http://www.eGarrett.com.
About Apexon
Apexon's mission is to enable manufacturing enterprises to strategically
manage a complete spectrum of business relationships, from product development
and manufacturing, to quality assurance operations. By bringing better
communication and collaboration to how extended enterprise relationships are
managed, Apexon will help companies and their business partners realize
increased revenues, reduced costs, and optimal efficiency. Apexon is
privately held with investments from Menlo Ventures, David A. Stamm
(co-founder of Clarify), Rolling Thunder Network, and Stanford University. The
company is based in San Jose, Calif.
NOTE: Apexon and the Apexon logo are registered trademarks of Apexon.
Other product or service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their
respective owners.
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