Evtec Automotive Video Case Study

00:00:04 - 00:00:30 "With WinMan and the technology they had, the system gave us that flexibility not obviously to satisfy our current customer base but to expand our customer base. We have supplier bases all over the world, so it was apparent that our system needed to be very flexible, and that's what WinMan gave us."
00:00:31 - 00:00:59 "Evtec Automotive is a tier one automotive supplier. Our customer base is Jaguar Land Rover (UK and Slovakia), McLaren, Aston Martin, and a number of other tier one customers. We became Evtec in 2021. It became apparent quite quickly that for a £60 million business, the IT system was very outdated. As technology was moving along, the business needed to change and change quite quickly."
00:01:00 - 00:01:34 "What was critical in the procurement of a new ERP system was the automotive sector and how complex it is, specifically receiving EDI schedules from numerous customers. We went through a selection process and chose WinMan because the system ticked all the boxes for what an automotive business needed. Our implementation experience was very positive."
00:01:35 - 00:02:12 "We focused on inclusivity; we didn't want to impose a system on our workforce without their involvement. We put together a project team covering all business functions to identify their 'pinch points.' When you're a tier one supplier, you have to be accurate and on time—there's no margin for error. WinMan helped us optimise all of those processes, ensuring stock accuracy and helping our working capital."
00:02:13 - 00:03:03 "The initial outlay of the cost is outweighed by the savings you see because you can't always capture the hidden costs of a poor system. Having confidence in our data was key. We make purchasing decisions 8 to 12 weeks away, and with a global supplier base, we can't afford to be inaccurate. Having quality systems and data you can rely on is vital."
00:03:04 - 00:03:51 "We have this 'smart factory' vision where we want to automate and digitise as many processes as we can. We used the mobile apps in the WinMan suite to address historic areas of weakness, predominantly with our works order processing. Labeling is quite onerous for our various SKUs, so we adopted a WinMan mobile app to automate that process and ensure the right label comes out of the right printer for the right product."
00:03:52 - 00:04:28 "We also had weaknesses around our quality inspections. Using the WinMan Go applications, we’ve now got three different quality inspection apps that run at different stages of our process. Our quality control has increased so much in the last couple of years. We are now in the best position with our customers, with the highest quality scores we've had in over a decade."
00:04:29 - 00:05:06 "The future for Evtec is very strong. We're picking up new customers and transitioning into the green energy sector, launching our own EV chargers. We're now looking at B2B customers, and the flexibility of WinMan allows us to scan orders all the way through the process with full traceability. WinMan hasn't just supported us in automotive; it's supporting our growth into new products across the whole organisation."