The Part-Book
The Part-Book connects the program and part relationship with an easy-to-use project management solution that save time and money!
The Part-Book helps streamline and standardize an automotive suppliers most complex business processes, such as quoting, new part launch and engineering change management.
The Part-Book was designed and built for automotive suppliers as the system of record for all part related information.
The Part-Book improves the information gathering process; and it stores all of the part related facts, figures and documents in a database instead of a spreadsheet. The result is that people have easy access to more reliable information, which saves time and money while reducing risk and enabling better decisions.
The Part-Book isn’t an ERP/MRP system; and it’s not just a document warehouse.
The Part-Book® – Features and Benefits
The Part-Book has a deep set of features and functions that can benefit different departments or the entire organization, but they can be used as needed and scaled as desired. Click on any of the boxes below to learn more.
Customer Relationship Management
Keep track of key contacts with clear visibility of new business opportunities and other customer activities.
Quote Management
Feasibility, cost and timing are covered, so you’ll submit more accurate quotes, faster and without the risks.
Sales Forecasting
Get real time visibility of secured and unsecured sales opportunities; then slice and dice the info as needed.
Capacity Planning
Avoid shortages; and target the new business opportunities that maximize asset utilization and profit.
Program Management
Enables suppliers to group together part info that will significantly reduce redundant data entry
Engineering Change Management
We’ve solved the engineering change management riddle and simplified the process.
Project Management
With real time visibility of every project that’s in process things will never slip through the cracks again.
Financial Forecasting
The Part-Book provides visibility of top line revenue, bottom line profit and everything in between.
Bill of Materials (BOM)
Enable capacity and profit optimizing decisions with the ability to easily compare make -vs- buy options.
Systems Integration
The Part-Book can work alone, but it was designed to work with an automotive suppliers existing systems as part of a complete, closed-loop, data management solution.
- ERP/MRP: The Part-Book is friendly to ERP/MRP systems, allowing users to export the bill-of-materials and routing, plus other metadata, from the Part-Book to their ERP/MRP system. Furthermore, once a part is in production, Actual results from your ERP/MRP system can be uploaded to the Part-Book; enabling the ability to compare the quoted, planned and actual cost of a part.
- CAD/PLM: The Part-Book works with your CAD/PLM systems by enabling CAD file storage, CAD file viewing, and seamless product design and manufacturing bill-of-materials version control.
2025 Special Offer
The Part-Book comes in various versions depending on the desired features and functions; and there are two elements of the software purchase: first is the cost associated with the one-time system setup and training; and then there is the monthly Software as a Service (SaaS) subscription. So, for example, If your company was interested in the silver version of the Part-Book, this would typically require an up-front investment of $36,000, plus the monthly SaaS cost of $2,085 per Month. Here's the deal with our 2025 Special Offer (valid until 12/31/2025):
- Free Version Upgrade - regardless of which version you choose, we'll give you all the features, functions and benefits of the next version up. So, for example (above), the price for Silver in 2025 is what we would typically charge for bronze. We're also giving new customers a...
- 20% Discount - in addition to giving each new customer a free version upgrade, you'll also get a 20% discount on the list price of whichever version you're paying for.
- No Up-Front Investment - to demonstrate how confident we are in the Part-Book, we're co-investing with our new customer by amortizing the one-time system set-up and training cost over 24 months and there is.....
- No long-term contracts or commitments required - if your company isn't seeing benefits from day one it can quickly and easily walk away and pay nothing more.
So, for the 2025 Special Offer, instead of paying $36,000 up-front and $2,085 per Month for Silver, if you sign-up before 12/31/2025, you can get it with no-up front investment at a cost of $1,988 per Month for the first two years and $1,188 per Month thereafter. We're trying to make it easy for automotive suppliers to do a low-cost and low-risk trial in 2025, because we know they need continuous improvement opportunities and we're confident the Part-Book will provide a significant return-on-investment.