eXpresso for Covisint's Automotive Manufacturers

Easily create, edit and share Microsoft® Office documents, spreadsheets, and presentations online with your staff and supplier community.

Collaborate with your Suppliers Online

Never attach another Office document to an email again! Simply upload your docs to eXpresso and invite staff and suppliers to view or edit them online with Office in real-time. It’s simple, secure, and always the latest version.

• Consolidate information from your respective suppliers into a spreadsheet online by using Excel, an application everyone already has and understands.
• Customize how each supplier will work with your docs by defining rights and visibility for specific slides or cell ranges.
• Save precious time and money by complementing traditional ERP/PLM systems.

More control over the documents you already manage today!

Here's how a typical auto manufacturer could use eXpresso:

Excel Example: You could setup a spreadsheet where each supplier's employees can manage their own worksheet containing the list of the parts they supply. As information, quantity, or delivery dates change, each supplier would sign into eXpresso to maintain their assigned sheets simultaneously. All edits are saved to a single, centrally accessed spreadsheet in real-time. Therefore, you could open any tab at any time and see the saved changes immediately.

• Enable your personnel to see which suppliers are supplying which parts.
• Review up to the second status updates directly from the hands of the manufacturer.
• Gain visibility into timing issues with your supplier base.
• Build 2-way communication with suppliers and staff via a true "living" document available in the cloud.
• Offer efficiency, compliance, and streamlined interactions to your entire supplier community.

Top Ten Advantages:

Since eXpresso is based on Microsoft® Office documents, any user can securely setup a new file to manage a specific process without requiring additional development, adding more expense, or recruiting the involvement of IT. Then, these files can be shared with others via a secure, flexible collaborative environment online.

• The people you interact with may be hesitant to learn your process management system, but they probably already know how to use Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• No more attaching files to emails, manually consolidating feedback into another file, and then resending the updated file as a new attachment.
• Maintain control of the data you keep in spreadsheets, instead of sending out files that you will never see again.
• eXpresso facilitates archived interactions between suppliers and your internal management team and staff.
• Receive email notifications immediately when a supplier updates their information in a file.
• Set alerts to notify suppliers that a pending update (e.g. PPAP) is due on an individual part or assembly.
• New suppliers or users can be added immediately on the fly without needing to engage IT.
• No additional IT expense or custom development needed.
• Virtually no learning curve because most people are already familiar with Microsoft® Office.
• Get the solution you need without spending hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Get it today!