SAP for Automotive delivers comprehensive functionality that enables you to gain the following business benefits:

• Improved efficiency – SAP for Automotive allows you to maximize revenue opportunity, manage and control costs, improve quality, and accelerate time to delivery.
• Reduced risk – Real-time information about projects, processes, operational performance, and markets gives you early warning of shifts in demand, customer requirements, and economic conditions.
• Increased visibility and control – Advanced analytics allow you to identify precisely where you're incurring product and production costs, enabling you to increase efficiencies across all assets.
• Faster time to market – SAP solutions accelerate time to market by enhancing communication, improving collaboration, and maintaining consistent data across all processes.
• Expanded reach – With SAP solutions, you can manage the entire value chain, communicating through enterprise portals and enabling global collaboration among employees, partners, and customers.
• Higher sales – SAP solutions enable you to anticipate and adapt to market needs, identify new business opportunities, and explore new ways to grow market share, revenues, and profits. Support for dealer business management enables processes such as vehicle sales, vehicle service, service-parts management, marketing, and finance.
• Improved supply chain management – Locate-to-order, make-to-order, and make-to-stock processes provide insights into demand, inventory, and capacity – enabling you to respond to customer needs.
• Enhanced aftermarket service – With SAP solutions, you can understand customer needs, enhance customer service, and provide superior support to maximize revenues in the high-margin aftermarket business.
• Lower total cost of ownership – SAP for Automotive reduces total cost of ownership by providing best-of-breed functionality and eliminating the need for the costly interfaces required by point solutions.
• Seamless integration – SAP solutions seamlessly integrate key areas of the enterprise, including supply chain management, customer relationship management, product life-cycle management, enterprise resource planning, and business intelligence. SAP solutions provide a single, integrated foundation, so you don't have to maintain a knowledge base of disparate systems.