SAP BUSINESS ALL-IN-ONE FOR AUTOMOTIVE

With increasing pressure on your production line, "efficiency" now defines success. But are you looking for efficiency in the right places, with the right tools?

To achieve the right level of continuous improvement across your business, you need to look beyond spreadsheets and custom legacy or non-integrated software – to an integrated manufacturing solution that offers visibility and flexibility. Software that enables you to reduce waste and inefficiency, manage ongoing customer commitments, and enter new markets quickly and affordably. Software that helps you:

• Monitor, measure, and control key performance indicators that can impact schedule attainment, including customer demand, material availability, and supplier performance issues
• Enable a streamlined and synchronous material flow to ensure delivery with precision
• Meet stringent financial reporting and quality standards such as Sarbanes-Oxley, Basel II, IMDS, and the TREAD Act and TS-16949
• Anticipate and adapt to market needs, and identify new business opportunities

SAP Business All-in-One for Automotive: Drive Efficiency, Pull Ahead in Profit

The SAP Business All-in-One for Automotive solution combines proven SAP software with SAP Best Practices and "quick start" accelerators to help you gain visibility and control over every aspect of your business – from product development, supply chain management, and manufacturing operations to financials, accounting, and aftermarket service.

SAP Business All-in-One was created specifically for companies of your size, at a price you can afford. In fact, a solution to handle your core business processes can be implemented in 12 - 24 weeks. And, because it's built on open standards, SAP Business All-in-One supports modular deployment and your growth plan – so you can add to and adapt the solution as business needs change.

SAP Business All-in-One for Automotive is a complete solution for midsize automotive suppliers. Every part of the solution is built with deep expertise based on 35 years of experience with over 1,600 automotive customers.

Select SAP Business All-in-One, and you improve your ability to:

• Provide full visibility for informed decision making – Generate lean level schedules, eliminate waste and variability, and avoid production disruptions by providing key personnel and partners with appropriate operational views and fast access data across all functional areas of your business.
• Streamline production – Control internal and customer inventory levels, and respond to OEM demands in minutes with robust process controls and JIT/JIS capabilities. Improved takt-based scheduling and line balancing ensure that your production capacity is aligned with customer demand.
• Ensure compliance with financial reporting and quality standards – Manage risk and track products as they move through the supply network, and report quickly on a combination of financial, product, and manufacturing process data – leaving a clear trail for internal and external audits.
• Grow your business – Quickly assimilate operations – including people, processes, and information – whether growth is driven organically or through acquisition or merger. Enable ongoing operational efficiencies and align business processes with your growth strategies, so you can identify and seize market emerging market opportunities quickly and affordably.
• Increase operational efficiencies and cut costs – Integrate systems to reduce redundancy, standardize processes, enforce policies, and centralize information about customers, suppliers, and partners. Reduce planning and operating costs by consolidating multisite production and performance, and reduce IT administration costs over multiple site locations.

In the automotive industry, success begins with best practices – proven practices that have enabled successful companies to optimize business processes, improve efficiencies, and remain profitable in the midst of challenging business realities.

The SAP Business All-in-One for Automotive solution includes SAP Best Practices, providing preconfiguration settings to handle your core business processes, including:

• Supplier collaboration
• Quality management
• Manufacturing
• Project management
• Procurement
• Sales order management

Experience You Can Count On. Results You Can Measure.

With SAP Best Practices, you can take advantage of proven industry practices without reinventing the wheel. Our best practices:

• Target key business performance metrics
• Are localized for specific regions
• Provide a solid foundation that can be adapted to meet your own unique processes and changing business needs

Plus, preconfigured software based on SAP Best Practices – along with our SAP ASAP Focus methodology and extensive documentation – make implementation fast and predictable. Your solution can be ready for use in 12 - 24 weeks, with tools to ensure successful end-user adoption and continuous improvement over time.

With SAP Business All-in-One, you can introduce efficiency and automation into your core business operations. And because the solution is fully integrated, you can automate and streamline your entire business, end-to-end. Your SAP Business All-in-One solution includes:

• SAP ERP application – The same enterprise resource planning (ERP) software that runs Fortune 500 companies can integrate your core business processes, giving you a full view into your business operations. The software provides comprehensive support for managing financials, human resources, operations, and corporate services.
• SAP CRM functionality – Leveraging standardized best practices, SAP CRM empowers sales professionals with full visibility into the opportunity pipeline and sales performance, providing the tools and information they need to reduce the sales cycle, enhance revenue potential, and improve sales productivity.
• SAP NetWeaver platform – The SAP NetWeaver platform powers all SAP software, including SAP Business All-in-One solutions. As a standards-based, open technology platform, SAP NetWeaver ensures that you have a solution that can grow with your business. Partners can easily add industry-specific functionality or business processes to the system to help address your unique requirements.
• SAP Best Practices – Because SAP Business All-in-One comes with preconfigurations based on industry best practices, you don't need extensive customizations before streamlining processes and reducing costs. SAP Best Practices include the documentation, forms, and reports needed to get your system up and running quickly.

Business All-in-One Innovations

Recognizing your need for a comprehensive solution that can be easily implemented, adopted, and adapted to meet changing business requirements, SAP has further enhanced SAP Business All-in-One solutions with:

• An enhanced user experience driven by role-based navigation and a user-friendly interface
• Enhanced SAP Best Practices optimized for productivity and ease of doing business
• Extended functional capabilities designed to help midsize companies run their entire business
• Added extensibility by partners, enabling personalization and configuration to meet granular, industry-specific needs
• Streamlined implementation processes that offer a lower, more predictable total cost of ownership