Client introduction:

Shanghai GKN HUAYU Driveline Systems Co., Ltd. (SDS) is one of the earliest foreign-invested joint venture companies established in China for automotive components. SDS specializes in designing, developing, producing and selling all kinds of automotive transmission system and other transmission products, forging and parts, transfering of self-research results, and providing domestic sales services, technical consultation and warehousing services.

ReqMan business process introduction:

In SDS, the salesman in charge of each OEM will send the corresponding SOR (Specification of Requirement) (word, PDF) to SDS salesperson when the OEM needs the corresponding parts. The document describes the specific requirements of the OEM for the parts in detail. After the salesperson receives the requirement document, the document will be sent to the requirements engineer or system engineer of SDS according to the specific content of the document. Requirements engineerSystem engineer needs to quickly split the document and quickly generate a matrix to reply to the OEM after analysis. Then they need to discuss and confirm the product requirements with the OEM based on the matrix.

SOR: Specification Of Requirements refers to the customer’s product specifications issued to the supplier. After the start of a project, it is generally sent to the supplier when the supplier invites tenders. It includes the detailed requirements of the price, quality and quantity of the product. Now it is widely used in automobile industry.

The Value and Significance of ReqMan

ReqMan can help quickly split SOR and directly respond to requirements on ReqMan, and then directly generate a matrix to OEM. At the same time, in the process of repeated iterations of requirements by OEM, the differences between different versions need to be quickly positioned by ReqMan.