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Automotive Manufacturing · India · Dynamics 365 Business Central
Your production runs on precision. Your systems should too.
Can your current systems support your next stage of growth?
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central helps Indian automotive component manufacturers gain complete visibility across inventory, production, procurement, finance, and compliance on a single connected platform.
- Microsoft Solutions Partner
- India GST, IRN & e-Way bill built in
- Go-live in 10-16 weeks
- 300+ global implementations
The challenge
If you run an auto component business in India, this is probably your week.
“The Managing Director of a ₹150 Crore company in Aurangabad gets a consolidated P&L on the 12th of the following month assembled from three Excel files, two systems, and phone calls to plant managers. By the time they see the numbers, the decisions are already six weeks stale.”
Managing Director · Owner · CEO
“The P&L arrives on Day 42. Decisions made on Day 2.”
No real-time business visibility
Inventory status needs a call to the storekeeper. Production status needs a call to the plant manager. By the time leadership sees the monthly P&L, pricing and capacity decisions are already six weeks stale. Delivery dates and price quotes are made on gut feel, setting up failures before they happen and eroding margin by 2-3%, which is ₹3-4.5 Crore destroyed annually on ₹150 Crore revenue.
Managing Director · CFO · Finance
“We’re paying interest on inventory we can’t even see.”
Inventory losses & working capital blockage
Excess and inaccurate stock blocks working capital and reduces profitability. Dead stock accumulates invisibly. The finance team cannot identify slow-moving SKUs without a multi-day manual exercise. Emergency purchases at premium pricing follow every inventory discrepancy, adding cost that should not exist. On ₹45 Crore of average inventory, that is ₹5.4 Crore a year in interest alone, plus ₹12-40 Lakh in avoidable emergency-purchase premiums.
Managing Director · Operations
“I suspect one product line is losing money. I can’t prove it.”
Profit leakage due to poor cost tracking
Actual product costs are unclear, leading to reduced margins. Costs are tracked at the consolidated level only, never by part number or customer. When an OEM asks for a price reduction, there is no cost data to push back with or to fully evaluate the impact before accepting. Companies without part-level costing typically sell 20% of volume below cost, quietly losing ₹2-8 Crore a year in margin they have no visibility to recover.
Managing Director · Owner
“We doubled revenue. The business is no more efficient.”
Growth limited by manual systems
Excel-based operations slow down scaling and expansion. Every rupee of new revenue requires proportionally more coordination overhead and administrative headcount. Adding a new plant means creating a new spreadsheet infrastructure from scratch rather than extending an existing system.
Production Manager · Procurement
“System says 500 units. Shelf shows 200. Line stops. OEM calls.”
Inventory mismatch & material shortages
System inventory differs from actual physical stock, causing production disruptions. A buffer assumption is baked into every plan because the system is never trusted. Missing materials halt production unexpectedly, triggering emergency purchases and OEM delivery failures that damage OEM/ supplier relationships. Even two hours of line stoppage a week adds up to ₹52 Lakh-₹2 Crore a year in lost production time.
Procurement · Finance Manager
“The books say ₹18 Crore. The warehouse says ₹21.5 Crore.”
Vendor delays & finance-inventory mismatch
Vendor delivery delays go untracked, so there is no systematic way to get ahead of them. Simultaneously, inventory values do not match financial records, requiring days of manual reconciliation every month-end, flagged by auditors annually, and impacting working capital loan terms with the bank. Untracked vendor delays alone cost 3-5% of purchase value a year, and the reconciliation effort adds ₹4-8 Lakh in finance overtime.
For a typical ₹150 Crore auto component manufacturer the total cost of staying on Excel and Tally – inventory interest, emergency purchases, production downtime, margin erosion, and MD time firefighting is ₹6-10 Crore per year. What Business Central costs against this, including full implementation, is exactly what our assessment below will show you.
The solution
One connected platform.
Built for how an auto component business actually runs.
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central integrates production, inventory, purchasing, costing, and finance on one system with India’s full compliance stack and OEM traceability built in from day one. Configured specifically for the Indian automotive component manufacturer’s production-to-dispatch journey; not a generic manufacturing ERP.
Real-time perpetual inventory
Every movement – receipt, issue, transfer, rejection – recorded instantly. Bin and lot tracking. System always matches physical.
No more phantom stock. No emergency premiums.
MRP-driven purchasing
Material requirements calculated automatically from confirmed production orders and vendor lead times. Shortages flagged weeks early.
Shortages caught weeks out. No line stoppages.
Production and work center scheduling
Live schedule. Capacity loading visible. Rescheduling one job shows cascade impact on every other job instantly.
The weekly rebuild stops. The plan survives Wednesday.
Standard costing and part profitability
Actual cost per part number material, labor, overhead, subcontractor vs. standard. Loss-making lines visible within month one.
Know which customer you’re subsidizing before they negotiate.
Vendor scorecards and PO tracking
Every PO tracked from issuance to receipt. On-time %, rejection rate, lead time calculated automatically. Objective data replaces relationship decisions.
Replace gut feel. Rationalize the vendor base with data.
India compliance and integrated finance
GST, IRN, e-Way bills, TDS/TCS, GSTR reconciliation all native. Inventory and finance are one ledger. The ₹3-4 Crore discrepancy ceases to exist.
Month-end close: 12-14 days → 3-4 days.
Key benefits
Four outcomes automotive component manufacturers achieve within the first year.
What changes after going live on Business Central, in inventory, delivery performance, visibility, and decision-making.
Reduce
costs
Eliminate emergency purchase premiums, reduce excess inventory carrying costs, and cut manual finance overhead. Working capital locked in mismanaged stock is released and redeployed into the business.
Lower operational cost base from month one
Improve delivery timelines
MRP-driven procurement prevents material shortages before they stop the line. Live production scheduling aligns capacity with confirmed orders. OEM on-time delivery rates improve measurably within months of go-live.
Stronger OEM relationships and fewer penalties
Real-time
visibility
Live dashboards surface inventory health, production status, vendor performance, and financial position, continuously updated from operational data. The MD sees the full picture from any device without asking anyone.
No more waiting for Day 12 to know where the business stands
Better decision-making
Part-level and customer-level profitability available from month one. Pricing negotiations backed by actual cost data. Vendor rationalization driven by objective performance scores, not personal relationships.
Decisions made on data, not gut feel
Feature highlights
Built for the production-to-dispatch journey.
Every capability mapped to a specific pain in the automotive component manufacturer’s daily operations.
Know what’s on the shelf before you release a production order.
Real-time perpetual inventory eliminates phantom stock. MRP calculates what to buy and when, weeks before a shortage can idle your press line.
- Every goods movement tracked instantly – receipt, issue, transfer, rejection with full audit trail across every plant
- Bin-level and lot-level tracking: physical stock traceable to exact location at any time
- Mobile scanning at point of action
- MRP auto-generates purchase recommendations from confirmed production orders and vendor lead times
- Overdue POs flagged with production consequence before the line is idle
- Vendor scorecards: on-time %, rejection rate, lead time calculated automatically, no manual tracking
Inventory and MRP results
Zero
unplanned material stoppages in 6 months post go-live
– ₹130 Crore auto ancillary supplier, Gurugram
₹6 Crore
working capital recovered in year one
– ₹180 Crore stamping company, Pune
“Our production manager built a 30% buffer into every request because the system was never right. Since go-live, we have not had a single line stoppage from a material shortage. That one change paid for the entire implementation.”
— MD, ₹140 Crore auto component company, Nashik
Two days building the plan. Two hours until it’s broken. That stops here.
Work centre scheduling with capacity loading surfaces conflicts before they happen. Rescheduling one job shows cascade impact on every other job instantly.
- Live scheduling board: every job’s stage, next operation, and work center; no floor walk required
- Capacity loading: conflicts visible before they cause a stoppage
- Priority change or machine offline? Downstream impact shown immediately across all affected jobs
- Parallel BOM management for companies running both ICE and EV product lines
- OEM delivery confirmations answered in minutes
- BOM version control: production always uses the current approved bill of materials
Production planning results
87% → 96%
OEM on-time delivery post go-live
– Automotive ancillary supplier, South India (OEM target: 95%)
₹3-4 Lakh
annual planning overhead eliminated. Two-day weekly Excel rebuild replaced by a live digital schedule
“I built the schedule Sunday night. By Tuesday it was wrong and I had no way to see the cascade. Now I know Monday morning which jobs are at risk and why. The OEM escalation calls have stopped.”
— Production Manager, ₹200 Crore brake manufacturer, Chennai
Profiting from some customers. Subsidizing others. Know which is which.
Standard costing tracks actual production cost per part number against standard in real time. Loss-making lines identified in month one. Every OEM negotiation backed by real data.
- Actual cost per part number – material, labor, overhead, subcontractor vs. standard cost set at quote time
- Cost variance alerts fire while the batch is still in production
- Customer-level and part-level profitability in Power BI, updated continuously from live Business Central data
- Rejection and rework costs tracked to the specific part and process causing them
- Vendor price change? Margin impact visible across all affected part numbers immediately
Costing & margin results
₹8 Crore
loss-making volume identified in month one. 20% of part numbers below cost
– ₹240 Crore stamping company, Pune
3%
OEM price concession resisted in next negotiation backed by Business Central cost data for the first time
“We suspected one product line was losing money for two years. Business Central confirmed it in week three. We discontinued the line and EBITDA improved by ₹1.8 Crore in the first full quarter.”
— CFO, ₹180 Crore auto ancillary manufacturer, Coimbatore
₹3.5 Crore in inventory the finance team can’t explain. Gone on go-live day.
Inventory and financial ledger are one system. Every goods movement posts to the correct GL account in real time. Month-end reconciliation ceases to exist as a task.
- Every receipt, issue, transfer, rejection, and return auto-posts to the correct GL account in real time
- IGST, CGST, SGST on every transaction; IRN generated on every applicable B2B invoice automatically
- e-Way bill created directly from dispatch orders; no separate GSTN portal login per challan
- GSTR-2A/2B reconciliation built in minutes per month
- Batch and serial traceability from raw material to OEM delivery portals fed automatically
- Multi-plant consolidation in real time; inter-plant transfers tracked end-to-end with automatic GL postings
Finance & compliance results
3-4 days
month-end close after go-live, down from 12-14 days on Tally + Excel + manual reconciliation
₹4-8 Lakh
finance team overtime eliminated per year. The monthly discrepancy task simply ceases to exist
“GSTR reconciliation was a quarterly nightmare – three people, four days, mismatches every time. It now takes 30 minutes. The ₹3-4 Crore inventory-finance discrepancy we worked through every month-end does not exist anymore.”
— Finance Controller, ₹240 Crore brake manufacturer, Chennai
Results
What Indian auto component companies achieve with Business Central.
Real rupee-value outcomes from comparable businesses in the ₹50-500 Crore band.
₹6 Crore
working capital recovered year one – ₹180 Crore stamping company, Pune
87% → 96%
OEM on-time delivery improvement post go-live
– Auto ancillary supplier, South India
10-16 weeks
typical go-live for 250-1,000 employee automotive component companies
3-4 days
month-end close, down from 12-14 days on Tally + Excel
Whether you’re using Tally or a mix of spreadsheets and software, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central adds the manufacturing capabilities growing automotive businesses need: real-time inventory, MRP, production scheduling, part-level costing, and OEM traceability all on a single connected platform.
Free assessment
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We map your current situation, show you exactly what Business Central looks like for an auto component business like yours, and give you a specific, honest cost-benefit picture in rupees.
Your specific operational picture – active jobs, team size, current systems
A live demo of Dynamics 365 Business Central configured for your sub-segment and revenue band
A clear, honest cost-benefit analysis in rupees, not percentages
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