Release information 2026.3.1 LIVE

Dear ,

we want to inform you that the

Release 2026.3.1 is rolled out to LIVE servers today,

Friday 27.03.2026

✅ Summary of Release

🆕 Business Case in Strategy, Acquisition, Booked 

Interested? Click here to see a preview of what you can expect

Some facts:

• Replaces current simplified and manually filled Business Case in Acquisition
• Provides lifetime overview of Project based given Cost, Prices and OTP data (Invest, reimbursements, Amortizations and more)
• If activated, available in Strategy, Acquisition, Booked lifecycle phase
  (Needs to separately activated)
• Is available if Project uses Price & Cost template and Parts
• Permanently saved (frozen) when Project is awarded
• Saved in Scenarios and Budgets
• Provide full lifetime overview of 
  • Monthly/annual volumes
  • Monthly/annual Serial and Non Serial
    • Revenues
    • Amortization
    • Cost details (Material / Production Cost)
  • EBIT details
  • Calculated Cash Flow details 
  • Calculated KPI (GM, Ebit,...)

Please contact our Sales or Project team for a detailed presentation and integration into your Business workflows.

• Customer Contacts --> Enable selection of contact within complete Company Group hierarchy, not only for linked customer (e.g. AUDI Contact can be selected within whole VW Group now)
• Acquisition Report - Order Intake Performance - Additional Filter to show/hide Lost Opportunity Projects in Lost Report 
• Acquisition to Booked phase transfer - Takeover Quote number of given Quotes to next phase

• Project information tab: Takeover of Part pictures into customer specific Quote template

• Investment & reimbursement tab in Acquisition - Integration into Quote versioning (review OTP data from previous Quote versions)
• Enable limited Price and Cost template editing (more will follow)
• Improvement of Price and cost template warning level feature
• API improvements (Bulk Import)

👀  Preview to upcoming features in Digital Automotive 

• Improved Market features (Eliminate Broken Links, Market settings)
• Data Import area (Parts, Voumes, Prices and Costs)
• OTP Custom Fields / Link to Parts

and many more features in planning and realization.

Interested in more details and personal onboarding?

Contact my team or me for a scheduled meeting and more details about all new features.

Send your mail to: customer-service@it-manufactory.com

And now?

It is up to you exploring the new features once they are available in your environment. In expectation of your feedback.

With Best Regards

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