For details about the benefits and capabilities of SAP for Automotive solutions, check out the following information:

Automotive

• Industry Overview "SAP for Automotive" (PDF, 220 KB) -- See how the SAP for Automotive portfolio of solutions enables you to meet your business challenges and capitalize on new opportunities. The solutions can help you manage and integrate critical business processes and collaborate with partners across the value network.
• Industry Overview "SAP for Automotive: Sales and Service" (PDF, 1 MB) -- Learn how the SAP for Automotive solution portfolio helps sales and service organizations strengthen customer relationships, improve branding, channel management, and service parts logistics, and meet challenges to capitalize on new opportunities.
• Partner Functions in Detail "SAP Best Practices for Automotive" (PDF, 120 KB) -- See how SAP All-in-One solutions put the power of integrated software within the reach of smaller automotive firms. Based on SAP Best Practices, these solutions include built-in content, tools, and methodologies for turnkey deployments.
• Solution Brief "Automotive Industry Revs into High Gear" (PDF, 181 KB) -- Find out how SAP helps small and midsize auto companies reduce costs, speed time to market, streamline operations, improve quality, and enhance customer interactions with industry-specific solutions that provide a scalable platform for growth.
• Solution Brief "SAP All-in-One for Automotive Suppliers" (PDF, 76 KB) -- Read about the it.auto solution from itelligence, a SAP All-in-One solution for auto suppliers that integrates core SAP capabilities with EDI for electronic communications, and accelerates data conversion and implementations.
• Solution Brief "SAP Supplier Enablement -- SAP R/3 Edition" (PDF, 68 KB) -- Explore SAP Supplier Enablement R/3 Edition, a Web-based order management solution that enables you to plug into internal processes efficiently, streamline collaboration, improve supplier relationships, cut supply chain costs, and increase productivity.
• Solution Brief "SAP ERP Automotive Supplier Packaged Solution" (PDF, 160 KB) -- Examine how the SAP ERP Automotive Supplier packaged solution helps companies streamline supply chains with predefined configuration information for rapid implementation.
• Strategies for Profitable Growth "The Automotive Supplier Industry" (PDF, 416 KB) -- Read about some of the solutions, strategies, practices, and tools that are making automotive suppliers successful and enabling new approaches to profitable growth.
• White Paper "Manufacturing Strategy: An Adaptive Perspective" (PDF, 166 KB) -- Learn more about adaptive manufacturing -- integrating all manufacturing activities and connecting them with supply chains for greater flexibility, efficiency, and savings.

Customer Relationship Management

• Solution Brief "SAP Customer Relationship Management" (PDF, 105 KB) -- Consider how SAP Customer Relationship Management helps OEMs, importers, dealers, and suppliers build more efficient, customer-centric processes and teams -- and improve customer interaction, increase efficiencies, and boost profitability in a competitive marketplace.

Manufacturing

• Solution Overview "SAP Manufacturing" (PDF, 157 KB) -- Learn how you can use SAP Manufacturing to respond quickly to meet customer needs and increase profits by reducing time to market through SAP world-class solutions in supply chain management, product life-cycle management, customer relationship management, and more.
• Solution Brief "SAP Manufacturing -- Manufacturing Intelligence Dashboards" (PDF, 78 KB) -- Examine how SAP Manufacturing offers intelligence dashboards that provide the visibility that production employees need to rapidly respond to changes in demand or supply, and run manufacturing processes at the speed of business.

Product Life-cycle Management

• Functions in Detail "SAP Product Lifecycle Management Asset Life-Cycle Management" (PDF, 2.7 MB) -- Review the capabilities of SAP Product Lifecycle Management -- for managing technical objects, providing solution analysis, and running business processes such as breakdown maintenance, inspection, and preventive maintenance.
• Solution Brief "Life-Cycle Collaboration with SAP Product Lifecycle Management" (PDF, 182 KB) -- Learn how SAP Product Lifecycle Management can help you improve collaboration throughout the entire product life cycle. With this solution, you can collect and organize product and project data, share information, and execute processes across enterprise boundaries.

Service and Asset Management

• Solution Brief "Service Management" (PDF, 218 KB) -- Find out how SAP Service and Asset Management helps you manage service as a strategic line of business -- to grow service profits, strengthen customer loyalty, and create competitive advantage.
• Solution Brief "Service Parts Management" (PDF, 152 KB) -- Explore how the SAP Service and Asset Management solution can create a comprehensive service parts management system that is accessible to everyone in your extended services supply chain.

Supply Chain Management

• Solution in Detail "Supply Chain Coordination with SAP SCM" (PDF, 127 KB) -- Read about two key activities for effective supply chain coordination -- performance management and event management -- and find out how SAP Supply Chain Management helps to define, select, and monitor KPIs for quantifying objectives.