AuraPortal unifies the purchases of the 180 TI Automotive companies

Woburn (Boston), MA. – October 26, 2011 – AuraPortal (www.auraportal.com), a global provider of Business Process Management (BPM) solutions has announced the successful implementation of TI Automotive’s Purchase Order process based on the AuraPortal BPM Suite. AuraPortal’s BPM solution will help TI Automotive more efficiently manage the volumes of purchase requests generated from all of their production centers around the world.

In this project, which has led to the first phase of implementing AuraPortal within TI Automotive, an initial process has been addressed aimed at consolidating the purchase requests operation. This process will greatly improve this function in all its centers, ensuring that the internal regulations and requirements are fulfilled using minimal human resources, and lowering operational costs.

TI Automotive is composed of approximately 180 companies distributed in three large groups: AM – Americas (USA, Mexico and Brazil), EU – Europe (Italy, UK, Poland, Germany, Spain, Czech Republic and France) and AP – Asia Pacific (Australia, Korea, China, Japan and India).

Given the delocalization of the production centers, each continent has different ERP installations. Therefore diverse mechanisms have been included in the process implementation to allow for an optimum and unified management of data integration, both input (creating, modifying and deleting) and output (introduction of order data in the various ERP systems), as everything is controlled and managed from one unique process.

The aim of this process, implemented with AuraPortal, has been to manage all the multinational purchase requests and the corresponding approval circuit, with the maximum degree of automation possible; thus achieving a drastic reduction in times/costs and the elimination of errors.

The process is unique for each of the companies, meaning that all employees use the same request, however, the process presents the information, (companies, warehouses, suppliers, articles, etc.), corresponding to the appropriate company for each user starting a process. As a result, the documentation necessary for the control and administration of the order is created automatically (automatic documents of the purchase orders, control and monitoring), with the right source data and is automatically associated to the Document Management system.