Where Margin Quietly Leaks: A Practical Guide for Tier 1 & Tier 2 Automotive Suppliers
In today’s highly competitive automotive market, suppliers face relentless margin pressure. Rising material costs, complex pricing deals, and...
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How Tier-1 Suppliers Can Improve Quote Accuracy by 20–30% Using Profit Intelligence
In today’s automotive supply chain, quote accuracy is no longer just a sales efficiency metric, it’s a margin survival issue. Tier-1 suppliers are...
The Forecasting Gap: Why Suppliers Still Rely on Broken Spreadsheets to Make Multi-Million-Dollar Calls
For an industry that runs on precision engineering, the way many automotive suppliers forecast demand is surprisingly fragile. Despite managing...
Why Forecast Variability Is Chaotic, And How AI-Driven Forecasting Fixes It
Forecasting volatility has always been part of the automotive supply chain. But today, forecast variability isn’t just a nuisance — it’s actively...
5 Hidden Cost Drivers That are Eroding Supplier Margins in 2025
Automotive suppliers aren’t losing margin because they don’t understand costs — they’re losing margin because critical cost drivers remain invisible...
Smart Quoting Drives Profitability
In today’s fast-paced automotive supply chain, speed, accuracy, and data-driven decisions separate winners from laggards. That’s where Campfire...
The 2026 Supplier Profitability Crisis: Why Margins Are Collapsing — And How to Protect Yours
Automotive suppliers are heading into 2026 with a looming financial challenge: profitability is eroding at the fastest rate in more than a decade....
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How Tier-1 Suppliers Build Forecast Agility With Profitability A.I.
In today’s supply chain environment, Tier-1 suppliers are facing an uncomfortable truth: forecasts are more volatile than ever, and traditional...
When Supply Chains Shift: What GM’s China Exit Means for Supplier Profitability — And How to Turn Risk Into Opportunity
On November 12, Reuters reported a major development in the automotive industry: General Motors has directed its supplier base to scrub their supply...
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Why Quoting Is the Hidden Profit Killer
In today’s competitive automotive supply landscape, every decision comes down to one question: are we protecting our margins or giving them away?...
The Forecasting Gap in Automotive Supply Chains: Why Traditional Planning Fails — and How to Close It
For decades, automotive suppliers have been expected to deliver precision in a world built on uncertainty. From fluctuating OEM production schedules...
How Tier-1 and Tier-2 Suppliers Can Future-Proof Margins in 2026
The Margin Pressure Is Real For Tier-1 and Tier-2 suppliers, profitability in 2026 won’t come easy. OEM demand remains unpredictable, input costs are...
Profitability A.I.: The New Frontier for Automotive Suppliers
In today’s automotive supply chain, profitability is under siege. Raw material costs fluctuate daily. OEMs are compressing margins. Electrification,...
When One Fire Sparks an Industry-Wide Reckoning: Lessons from the Novelis Aluminum Supply Disruption
In mid-September 2025, a fire broke out at Novelis’s Oswego, New York aluminum plant. The blaze ravaged the hot mill — the heart of sheet production...
Budget Season 2026: How Automotive Suppliers Can Plan for Profitability in Uncertain Times
As fall approaches, so does one of the most critical times of year for Tier-1 and Tier-2 automotive suppliers: budget season. Setting budgets and...
From Industry Spark to Industry Blaze: Campfire’s Journey of Profit-Driven Innovation
In the ever-evolving landscape of the automotive supply chain – or any competitive, metric-driven industry – genuine transformation comes from...
Gain Control, Reduce Risk: A New Playbook for Automotive CFOs
In today’s fast-paced automotive ecosystem, CFOs at Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers face unprecedented volatility – from shifting OEM program schedules...
Redefining CPQ: How Campfire’s Common Cost Model Sets a New Standard for Profitability at Scale.
The CPQ Challenge, Reimagined. In the complex world of manufacturing, cost modeling within CPQ systems has long been an obstacle to speed,...