Tantivy Auto Parts
SAP ERP unifies ERP, CRM, and WMS for Skoda and VW parts: 40% efficiency gain, same-day financial settlement
- Chinese name
- 天德勤汽车零部件
- Location
- Shanghai, China
- Industry
- Auto Parts & Accessories
- Products & Services
- Automotive Parts
- Website
- www.tantivy.com
- Partner
- MTC
- Solution
- SAP Business One on HANA
Company Profile
Tantivy Auto Parts Co., Ltd. is an established, sizeable aftermarket parts supplier for Skoda and Volkswagen vehicles in China. Under its vika and DPA brands, the company provides full-vehicle aftermarket parts to customers in over 50 countries and regions worldwide. Its product portfolio covers all nine major vehicle systems, including engine, chassis, braking, steering, control, electrical, body panels, clutch, and bearing systems. Tantivy manages over 10,000 Skoda and Volkswagen auto parts SKUs and operates modern logistics centers in Beijing and Shanghai with a combined area exceeding 13,000m². To respond to customer orders and service demands in the shortest possible time, Tantivy maintains a year-round inventory of 5,000 different product types at its logistics centers. Committed to delivering high-quality products and services, Tantivy places particular emphasis on building competitive advantages through operational innovation. Information technology has thus become an indispensable component of the company's multi-category, high-efficiency operational system. By implementing an automotive parts distribution solution based on SAP Business One, Tantivy built a modern auto parts supply chain service platform integrating ERP, CRM, and warehouse management (WMS).
Systems and Applications in Scope
Implementation partner: MTC
Client Feedback
With the efficient work platform built on SAP ERP and CRM, orders, documents, and inquiries are quickly routed to the relevant departments. Whether in pre-sales, sales, or after-sales, customer needs always receive immediate attention and resolution.
Implementation Outcomes
- Established an integrated information management platform encompassing domestic sales, foreign trade, procurement, warehousing, logistics, finance, and customer relationships. Improved material calculation speed, warehousing and logistics efficiency, ensuring high-efficiency operations from sales orders to logistics center packaging and shipping.
- Achieved refined management of multiple product categories and suppliers, established a supplier management platform, and improved order fulfillment rates and product quality consistency.
- Through refined financial management, established a financial system covering supplier payment terms, customer credit control, profit analysis, domestic and international payment matching, and multi-dimensional reporting.
- Built a finance and operations platform covering customer inquiry, quotation, order, sourcing, stock transfer, production scheduling and shipment.
- Created a product catalog with real-time search, query, and import capabilities for products, orders, and supplier information, enabling product category management and traceability.
- Implemented scientific planning management covering sales plans, procurement plans, stocking plans, shipping plans, and arrival plans from different sales channels, accelerating the entire supply chain's operational efficiency and responsiveness.
- Optimized warehouse management by setting inventory upper and lower limits, using MRP calculations to optimize inventory allocation, tracking slow-moving products, improving inventory turnover, and reducing overstock and insufficient inventory flow.
- Automated financial voucher generation, cost carry-forward, transparent document and business approvals, credit control and payment term reminders, and automatic payment matching significantly improved financial management accuracy and efficiency.
- Established a visual reporting platform enabling multi-angle, multi-level, and multi-dimensional cost, profit, and expense analysis, laying the foundation for company growth and risk control.
- Meets China local tax and fiscal compliance, with a complete finance system for supplier terms, customer credit control and multi-dimensional profit analysis
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