automotiveproductplanning_skill

Overview

This skill delivers strategic 5–10 year product planning for low-volume sportscar and specialist vehicle manufacturers. It synthesises market intelligence, regulatory timelines, engineering feasibility, partnership options, and board-ready financials into executable roadmaps. Use it to align product portfolios with cash flow, compliance milestones, and brand strategy.

How this skill works

The skill runs a structured workflow: discovery, horizon recommendation, analysis, roadmap construction, financial validation, partnership assessment, risk assessment, and cascade to execution. It produces executive summaries, year-by-year roadmaps, programme cards, NPV/IRR financial models, risk registers, and supplier/APQP integration outputs. It also suggests invoking HoshinKanri, SupplyChain, AutomotiveManufacturing, and Research skills where relevant.

When to use it

• Creating 5- and 10-year product roadmaps for low-volume sportscar programmes
• Planning model lifecycles, variant cascades, and platform investments
• Evaluating powertrain transitions (ICE→Hybrid→BEV) against regulatory timelines
• Assessing partnership, JV, licensing, or contract manufacturing options
• Building board-ready NPV/IRR and cash-flow validation for new programmes

Best practices

• Anchor the plan to regulatory milestones and build mandatory decision gates
• Start with a 5-year detailed plan and overlay a 10-year strategic vision for major tech bets
• Sequence major capital programmes to avoid overlapping peak funding requirements
• Preserve optionality—commit incrementally as technical and market risk falls
• Plan variants and derivative cascades during platform design, not after launch

Example use cases

• Develop a mixed portfolio: anchor production model, halo hero car, and restomod programme with clear funding gates
• Evaluate whether to license a BEV platform, develop in-house hybrid tech, or partner on batteries with NPV/IRR outputs
• Design a bespoke commission pipeline and calculate the capacity and margin impact on overall portfolio
• Create an APQP-linked roadmap that aligns SOP dates with supplier PPAP and launch readiness
• Assess a motorsport programme’s tech transfer value and its timeline to production benefit