ERP for transportation manufacturers
There is no room for error in transportation manufacturing, whether you build high-quantity components or highly customized equipment. Visibility ERP keeps configured products, inventory and delivery commitments accurate: know what to stock, how much, and at what price; track and manage inventory without scrambling; and ship on time because BOMs, routings and orders were right the first time.
Industry-specific functionality
PDM automation for speed to market
Project automation for large transportation equipment
On-time delivery management for transportation components
Graphical operation boards with real-time production activity
Field Service Automation for the post-delivery experience
Trading partner collaboration
Compliance reporting and quality requirements
Milestone revenue recognition and progress invoicing with automated workflows
Automotive Program Tracking
Quality Management
Tooling Management
Real Time Job Costing and Inventory Transactions
How transportation manufacturing runs on Visibility ERP
PDM automation on the engineering backbone improves speed to market for configured equipment.
Graphical operation boards monitor real-time production activity across the line.
Material planning keeps component supply matched to build schedules.
Milestone invoicing and revenue recognition run through automated financial workflows.
Post-delivery revenue, field service, warranty, repairs, stays on the same backbone for the vehicle’s service life.
Configured vehicles, serialized traceability, and service lifecycles measured in decades, the record outlives the production run.
From configured order to serial number in service
Transportation manufacturing has no tolerance for error at either end of the volume spectrum: high-quantity components have to ship right the first time, and highly customized equipment has to be built exactly as configured. Both depend on the order, the BOM and the routing being right before the floor ever sees them.
Visibility ERP starts that accuracy at engineering. PDM automation on the engineering backbone moves configured products from design to production without retyping, improving speed to market for new variants. Material planning keeps component supply matched to build schedules, and graphical operation boards monitor real-time production activity across the line. Trading partner collaboration keeps suppliers building to the same schedule you are.
On the commercial side, milestone invoicing and revenue recognition run through automated financial workflows, and compliance reporting draws from the same production records.
The fleet outlives the production run
A vehicle or rail car built today will be in service for decades, and its manufacturer will answer for it the whole time. Serialized traceability in Visibility ERP keeps each unit's as-built record: components, lots, revisions and test results, and field service automation runs warranty, repairs and the post-delivery relationship against that record.
When a component issue surfaces years later, the affected serials are a query, and the service history is already attached to them.
Common questions from transportation manufacturers
How does it handle configured vehicles and options?
Configured products flow from engineering through PDM automation into accurate BOMs, routings and orders, so each unit is built and costed as configured rather than as approximated.
What does serialized traceability cover?
Each serial number carries its as-built history: the components and lots that went in, the revisions in effect, and the operations and inspections it passed through, and that history follows the unit into service, warranty and repair.
What happens after delivery?
Field service automation manages the post-delivery experience, warranty, repairs and service revenue, on the same backbone as production, reading from each unit's real record.
How long does implementation take?
Four to six months is typical, and our own team delivers it. We have implemented in house since 1988 with zero failures.
Cloud or on premise?
Both. Browser based either way, as managed SaaS or on your infrastructure.
Ready when you are.
Bring your data and workflows. We'll show them running on Visibility ERP.