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The automotive sector places greater demands on suppliers than almost any other sector. Individual components need to meet strict criteria for the quality and traceability of materials, and additionally electronic data interchange (EDI) plays a key role. Although EDI doesn’t hold responsibility for manufacturing directly, integration with suppliers and customers is fundamental. If for example ASN (Advance Shipping Notice) messages remain undelivered for any reason, or they contain mistakes, fines (defect charges) from automakers are a real, and threatening, possibility. These affect a supplier’s overall rating, and with it, its future contracts. Invoicing takes place over EDI as well, and so it’s important for everything to work as it should.

You come into the showroom, the salesman hands over the keys and you step up to your new car for the first time. The paint literally shines, and you look forward to the rev of the engine. But do you know how it got painted? And that it’s definitely not just one quick job after assembly? Paint shops are very complicated operations, and we’d like to describe them to you.

For electronic communication with its business partners, Matador uses the TradeSync Integration Manager product from Aimtec. At the same time, Aimtec also administers the corporate information system SAP. For the purpose of printing documents for automaker Volkswagen, Matador uses the TSB generator. This is an application which prepares paper delivery notes with 2D barcodes in accordance with recommendations of VDA 4939, which is binding for all suppliers to the VW group.