Automotive and suppliers:
Delivery and quality performance that OEMs trust
Today, automotive OEMs and tier customers expect maximum reliability, short response times, and transparent key performance indicators. At the same time, suppliers’ IT and process landscapes have often evolved over time, been shaped by M&A, and spread across many locations.
Dategro supports you in aligning processes, IT, and data so that you can reliably control delivery and quality performance, meet OEM requirements in a traceable manner, and use digital and AI-based approaches on a stable foundation.
We combine your operational realities with a clear view of architecture, data models, and KPIs—always with the goal of making management decisions easier and more effective.
Which companies in the automotive sector do we work for?
This page is aimed at companies that
- Supply parts, modules, or systems to OEMs as a Tier 1 or Tier 2 supplier
- must meet stringent requirements from IATF, VDA, OEM-specific standards, and EDI/JIS/JIT
- produce in multiple plants or business units and experience noticeable data and system discontinuities
Typically, these are medium-sized and large suppliers with an international presence, several OEM customers, and a mix of series, variant, and project business.
Typical challenges faced by automotive suppliers
Many automotive suppliers face similar issues:
- Delivery and quality metrics are reported but not consistently managed
- Reporting is based on numerous Excel solutions and different KPI definitions
- IT landscapes are fragmented according to OEM, plant, or historically grown organizational units
- Requirements from OEM audits, IATF, and VDA encounter inconsistent data models
- Initiatives toward digital manufacturing and AI remain stuck in the pilot stage
This is exactly where Dategro comes in with an integrated approach.
What we do specifically for the automotive industry and suppliers
Our goal is to enable your organization to actively manage delivery and quality performance across plants, customers, and products.
To do this, we combine components from the Dategro service catalog to create an automotive-specific approach.
Readiness check for OEM and tier requirements
Together we consider:
- Your end-to-end processes from customer orders, planning, and procurement to production, quality, and delivery
- The IT and application landscape per plant and across plants (ERP, MES, QMS, APS, EDI, BI)
- Data quality relating to parts lists, master data, inspection plans, complaints, and feedback
- The key figures you use to demonstrate delivery and quality performance to OEMs
You get a structured picture that clearly identifies gaps, risks, and levers – for management, plants, and central functions.
Process excellence along the supply chain
We support you in this
- Making your processes in planning, manufacturing, logistics, and quality transparent from end to end
- Making bottlenecks, duplication of work, and media breaks visible along the supply chain
- Define target processes that balance OEM requirements and internal efficiency
- Establishing control loops in which deviations are systematically addressed and measures are tracked
This means that OEM requirements are not only “administratively fulfilled,” but also operationally anchored.
Consolidate IT and application landscape
We are here to assist you
- Record all relevant systems for each plant and centrally, including interfaces to OEM systems.
- Identify redundancies, shadow solutions, and critical dependencies
- Define a pragmatic target architecture in which ERP, MES, QMS, APS, EDI, and BI interact seamlessly.
- Establish governance rules for how systems, interfaces, and data structures will be developed in the future.
This creates an IT foundation that supports new OEM requirements and internal optimizations more quickly.
Data foundation and traceability for OEM requirements
We support you in this
- Clearly define data structures for articles, parts lists, variants, inspection plans, NCs, 8D reports, and complaints
- Define responsibilities for data quality and maintenance per domain
- Design a coherent data model that reflects your OEM requirements and can be evaluated consistently.
- Develop traceability concepts that combine customer requirements, standards, and internal control
This makes audits, complaint analyses, and series approvals significantly easier.
Performance cockpits for plants, customers, and the group
We work with you on this
- Standardize key figures such as OTD, PPM, complaint rate, rework time, setup time, and plan stability
- Automatically consolidate data from ERP, MES, QMS, EDI, and other sources
- Build dashboards for plant management, central functions, management, and customer view
- Establish regular meetings in which key figures serve as a basis for measures, not just as a reporting obligation.
So entsteht ein Steuerungsinstrument, das die Sprache der OEMs spricht und Ihre interne Führung unterstützt.
AI readiness for automotive use cases
We are here to assist you
- Identify suitable AI use cases, for example in quality forecasting, maintenance, demand forecasting, or back-office processes.
- Evaluate data and process maturity for each use case
- Making benefits, costs, and risks transparent
- Develop a roadmap that puts the groundwork, piloting, and scaling in a logical sequence.
How to make AI a building block of your OEM performance, not an isolated beacon.
Evidence Pack and customer communication
We bundle for you
- Relevant key figures and developments regarding delivery and quality performance
- Described target scenarios and implementation progress in processes, IT, and data
- Examples from works and projects that can be referenced
- Roadmaps that show you how to develop systematically
This allows you to create a set of documents that can be used in OEM discussions, audits, Q briefings, and management meetings.
What automotive suppliers gain from working with Dategro
After working with Dategro, automotive suppliers typically have
- A clear picture of how well processes, IT, and data support OEM requirements today
- A prioritized roadmap that combines economic levers with OEM and compliance requirements
- A significantly more transparent and integrated IT and data landscape
- Key figures and dashboards that enable delivery and quality performance to be controlled across plants and customers
- Documents that enable them to demonstrate their performance in OEM discussions, audits, and internal committees
This is how a typical project starts
1. Initial consultation
Together, we clarify your OEM landscape, existing standards, and the target vision for plants and the group.
2. Readiness Check
In a compact assessment, we analyze processes, IT, data, and key figures and consolidate the findings in a clear evaluation.
3. Joint prioritization
On this basis, we work with you to define which services from the Dategro service catalog will have the greatest impact for you and where we should start.
4. Implementation in stages
We implement the measures in predictable steps, document results, and ensure that plants, central functions, and management have a common understanding.
FAQ for automotive and suppliers
We work at the interface between these requirements and your processes, IT systems, and data structures. Detailed interpretation of standards and certification remain the task of specialists and auditors; we ensure that your organization can put them into practice and demonstrate compliance.
No. In many cases, much can be achieved through better integration, clear governance, and tidy data models. A system change is an option, but not a standard approach.
We work with a clear framework consisting of target vision, standard KPIs, and architectural specifications, which is tested in pilot plants and then rolled out to other locations. Local characteristics are taken into account without losing sight of the big picture.
Yes. Here we draw on the M&A track of your service catalog, in particular IT & data due diligence and 100-day integration plans. These can be combined with automotive-specific modules.
That depends on the initial situation and the chosen focus. Initial effects usually arise from improved transparency, clear KPI definitions, and simplified processes. Structural effects in OTD, PPM, or complaints follow in further stages.
We involve both sides from the outset, work with a clear target vision, and use key figures and data models as a common language. This creates a framework that reflects both local realities and central control requirements.
If you would like to know how well your organization as an automotive supplier can really be managed today, we can start with a structured readiness discussion.
In this discussion, we will clarify your OEM landscape, your goals, and which components from the Dategro service catalog have the greatest leverage for your delivery and quality performance.
Dategro partners with deal teams to conduct targeted technical due diligence that identifies hidden IT risks, quantifies their impact on valuation, and creates clear remediation roadmaps—all within standard deal timelines.
COMPANY
dategro IT GmbH & Co. KG
In der Gelpe 79
42349 Wuppertal
Germany
E-Mail:
[email protected]
Telefon:
0202 430 427 20
