From a single part to the body-in-white structure
Ever since cars have existed, we have been developing, producing, and supplying metal parts—and, for the vehicles of today, hybrid structures—for the automotive industry. From a manufacturer of individual parts, we have grown into an internationally recognized development supplier of components and body-in-white structures.
KIRCHHOFF Automotive provides vehicles worldwide with extra stability and safety.
But we also offer our customers much more than that: we make a considerable contribution to the growth of their competitiveness.
The crucial cost and logistical advantages of our streamlined, medium-sized company structure with international presence serves a single purpose: to drive the market success of our customers and safeguard our innovative strength and earning power. This is our pledge worldwide.
07-06-21
SAP now running at all plants
In June 2020 and at the end of March 2021, our US plants in Waverly and Tecumseh implemented SAP. This means that all our plants worldwide now use this software.
Tecumseh is our largest plant and preparations for the SAP rollout were therefore extensive; beginning as early as January 2020. After Tecumseh, Waverly was to follow, thus completing the SAP rollout worldwide. However due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the project team decided to set Waverly live first because it was easier to organize the remote support at the smaller plant. Thanks to the strong team on site, the implementation there went very well despite the short time and was completed by the end of June 2020. The project team was also able to support in the following weeks during the "Hypercare" phase; the intensive support phase after the GoLive.
Waverly then became the blueprint for the remote-support Go Live in Tecumseh. Considering the plant size and despite - or perhaps because of COVID-19 restrictions - the team got off to one of its best SAP starts here.
For this great achievement, a big thank you to the entire project team!
