Automotive

Face new automotive challenges and opportunities for growth with the help of SAP software, including geopolitical and societal changes, sustainability, mobility, responsive supply networks, shortened vehicle development cycles, and more savvy customers. The software empowers you to accelerate vehicle and service innovation, improve quality, reduce manufacturing costs, and sell and service vehicles more profitably. This drives market share growth in a highly competitive global market.

Be an innovation-driven automotive enterprise

Core Industry Priorities

Research, Development and Engineering

Go beyond just making digital products and assets – sell performance

Enable new business practices by managing digital product and asset intelligence across networks. Innovate digital products and services faster with partners. Connect assets with the Internet of Things (IoT) to maximize performance. Establish a network of digital twins among manufacturers, operators, and consumers across the product and asset lifecycle.

Manufacturing and Outbound Logistics

Manufacture and distribute products efficiently and cost effectively

Improve quality and reduce costs with manufacturing and logistics software from SAP. Gain a competitive advantage by optimizing global manufacturing networks, reducing inventories, and synchronizing logistics. Enable optimal execution, and have greater control and sharper visibility

Responsive Supply Networks

Optimize efficiency, and drive down cost and risk in global supply networks

Use supply network software from SAP to better meet volatile customer demand and heightened expectations for responsiveness as supply chains grow more complex and extend your reach across the globe. Resolve issues with innovative technologies that provide vital business information across the network, improve real-time data analysis, and enable better collaboration across departments and companies.

Sales & Marketing

Put the customer point of view at the center of every decision to deliver true end-to-end customer journeys and the experiences they want

Grow market share and individualize customer engagement using real-time contextual marketing, omnichannel sales, and billing solutions. Turn anonymous prospects into loyal customers by providing a consistent, truly personal, and rich experience regardless of the channel or device. Build a mutually beneficial customer relationship based on trust by putting the customer in control of their own data. Create and monetize new revenue opportunities while reducing the cost of customer acquisition and each sale.

Aftermarket Services

Achieve service excellence by delivering exceptional customer experiences with every interaction

Become a best-run service organization by solving problems faster and smarter and increasing service profitability. Inspire loyalty and exceed the needs of digitally connected customers with omnichannel customer service.

Smart Mobility and Transformation

Embrace change in the new automotive ecosystem using smart mobility and transformation solutions

Integrate vehicle telematics, enterprise, and customer data to offer smart mobility services and enhance ordering, collection, and transportation of goods. Optimize processes and create value by supporting new business models for autonomous, connected, electric, and shared vehicles. Run real-time supply chains that link people, processes, and things.

Sourcing and Procurement

Drive sustainable savings while supporting innovation.

Help ensure best practices in the source-to-pay process, on premise or in the cloud, while leveraging the power of network collaboration for efficiency and insight.

Digital Asset Management

Digital Asset Management

Connect to assets – to bring together information from operational and business systems (IT/OT convergence), as well as use the IoT for scaling transparency without neglecting existing information sources. Predict and simulate asset system behavior – to avoid unplanned downtime and major operational consequences, as well as discover patterns of failure and preserve operational integrity. Share asset information and collaborate – so you can activate the ecosystem of OEMs, EPCs, service providers, and operators; ensure there’s one version of truth on asset information; and use a business network to enable integrated processes in the cloud.

Human Resources

Inspire your total workforce with engaging experiences designed to improve people performance and business results

Motivate your total workforce by putting people at the center of your transformation to an intelligent enterprise. Enhance agility, keep employees fully engaged, and transform your workforce for the future while inspiring people to deliver on your organization’s purpose and performance

Finance

Stellar financial performance

Enable a comprehensive, real-time view of enterprise performance – both operational and financial - while mitigating risk and managing compliance.