Finance can’t protect margin with spreadsheets and rearview reporting.
Campfire gives automotive supplier finance teams a real-time profitability layer across quoting, forecasting, and program execution—so you can catch margin drift early, recover costs faster, and forecast with confidence.
Program Managers live in execution chaos, then get blamed for margin loss.
Campfire gives automotive supplier program teams a real-time execution and profitability layer, so you can manage launches, engineering changes, and audits without spreadsheets, firefighting, or last-minute surprises.
Live program visibility.
Replace Excel chaos with live program visibility.
Track changes in one system.
Track engineering changes, launch issues, and risks in one system.
Connect to margin.
Connect execution to margin impact, not just tasks.
Program Managers are responsible for everything, without the tools to control it.
Program leaders sit at the center of automotive supplier operations. You manage launches, customer demands, audits, engineering changes, and cross-plant coordination: often across dozens of programs at once. But most teams still rely on disconnected spreadsheets, tribal knowledge, and late-stage reporting.
8–12 hours per week per PM spent updating Excel.
Last-minute scrambles for OEM or third-party audits.
Engineering changes tracked in email, not tied to cost.
No consistent view across plants or programs.
Launch delays driving premium freight and margin loss.
From firefighting to controlled execution.
Campfire creates a unified program execution system that connects day-to-day program activity to commercial assumptions, giving PMs clarity, structure, and early warning before issues escalate.
Live program visibility.
Centralize program status, risks, milestones, and issues. Replace manual rollups with standardized views. Gain clarity across programs, plants, and teams.
Engineering change control.
Track ECs with ownership, impact, and timing . Eliminate “EC whack-a-mole” and lost change costs. Support audit and recovery documentation automatically.
See how execution decisions affect program margin. Align PM actions with Finance and Sales assumptions. Reduce blame by replacing anecdotes with data.
What changes when Program Managers have control, not just responsibility?
Less time updating spreadsheets, more time managing programs.
Fewer launch surprises and premium freight emergencies.
Stronger audit readiness with documentation already in place.
Clear ownership of changes and issues.
Improved trust with Sales and Finance.
Execution discipline without bureaucracy.
Program Management teams rely on Campfire to control launches, unify multi-plant execution, stay audit-ready, capture engineering changes in real time, streamline leadership reporting, and align seamlessly with Sales and Finance.
Standardize programs.
Consistent structure across all launches.
Connect execution to margin.
Understand impact as issues arise.
Create early warning.
Surface risks before they become crises.
Realize your return.
By connecting quoting, forecasting, and cost into one source of truth, suppliers eliminate silos and accelerate decision-making.
Campfire eliminates spreadsheets and fragmented workflows, reducing errors and freeing teams to focus on delivering faster cycles, higher throughput, and a leaner cost structure.
+2-5%
Margin Expansion
10-15%
Less risk
Trusted by the world’s leading automotive suppliers.
12,000+ users rely on Campfire to manage more than $200B+ in customer business.
We had 23 manufacturing plants whose systems did not communicate with each other. Campfire allowed us to bring all of our data to one platform.
Director of Sales Planning, Tier 1 Automotive Supplier
Want to stop reacting and start controlling execution?
In 20-minutes, we’ll show how program teams lose control during launch and execution, and how leading suppliers replace Excel chaos with real-time program visibility.
Frequently asked questions.
Is this a replacement for our current PM tools?
Campfire complements existing systems by standardizing execution and connecting it to commercial outcomes.
Will this slow down Sales?
No. PMs typically gain time back by eliminating manual reporting and rework.
Who usually sponsors this internally?
Often Program Management leadership, with strong alignment from Finance and Sales.
