Automotive

Accelerate your business and navigate the dynamic world of mobility with automotive industry solutions.
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Support innovation and performance across the automotive value chain

Transform your automotive operations, increase agility, and meet evolving customer demand with one integrated platform.

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SAP Business Suite automotive solutions can help you:

  • Connect vehicle and customer data for sustainable, profitable mobility.

  • Use AI to accelerate innovation and prevent supply chain disruption.

  • Reduce your environmental footprint and support the circular economy.

  • Gain real-time visibility and analytics across end-to-end operations.

  • Anticipate tariff impacts and adapt supply strategies to protect margins.

Drive growth through customer focus

Turn data into insights to predict customer needs, personalize experiences, and build lasting loyalty across the entire vehicle lifecycle.

Boost resiliency across your value chain

Anticipate tariff impacts, optimize costs, and adapt pricing and supply strategies to stay competitive and protect margins.

Drive toward a greener future

Advance sustainability by optimizing eco-friendly production, promoting electric vehicles, and embracing circular economy practices for lasting impact.

Transform data into an advantage

Optimize operations, personalize customer experiences, and accelerate innovation for a stronger competitive edge.

Explore how automotive software from SAP can help your business run better

Achieve cost-effective transformation and sustainable growth with solutions that address specific automotive industry needs.

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Collaborative product development

Run product development collaboratively to:

  • Link requirements to product and business data for full traceability and transparency.

  • Build a single source of truth for product, raw material, and packaging specifications.

  • Combine business data and engineering models to create smart products and digital twins.

  • Manage your product master data and sustainability information to make better, faster decisions.

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Project and resource management

Manage your projects efficiently with cross-team collaboration and intelligent optimization of resources.

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Product compliance

Assess and verify compliance throughout the product lifecycle using compliance checks integrated with your business processes

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Product lifecycle cost calculation

Protect revenue margins by using insights to continuously reduce costs while developing innovative products that preserve brand value.

PARTNER APPLICATION

Cideon Cloud CAD Integration

Links data from modern cloud-based CAD systems with SAP

Discover SAP Business Suite

See how SAP cloud ERP applications, SAP Business AI, and SAP Business Data Cloud come together to deliver exceptional value for your organization.

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See how customers are succeeding with automotive software from SAP

See what analysts are saying about SAP

Accelerating digital transformation in discrete industries

Explore IDC research* to learn how complex industries use cloud ERP systems to enhance systems and collaboration.

Resources

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SAP and Mercedes high-octane race

Watch the SAP and Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS Formula 1 Team Cost Cap Challenge.

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SAP Business AI for automotive

Hear how SAP Business AI can help mitigate potential disruptions in your supply chain before they happen.

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Grow your automotive supplier business forward

Follow Tyler, a COO driven by agility and precision, as she leads Best Run Batteries through a sudden shift in market demand.

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Connect with SAP industry experts

Get advice on how to drive cost-effective transformation and sustainable growth with our innovative industry solutions.

Explore packages and pricing

Choose modular, AI-enabled solutions tailored to your business priorities—finance, supply chain, HR, procurement, or sales—and grow at your pace.

See what’s ahead with SAP road maps

Browse upcoming strategies and advancements across SAP products and industries—and get the insight you need to plan your strategy with confidence.

Frequently asked questions

SAP offers solutions for research, engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain management, as well as vehicle sales and marketing, aftermarket services, and smart mobility transformation, and more.

ERP integrates supply chain, production, financials, and customer data to streamline operations, enhance data visibility, improve supply chain efficiency, and support compliance and innovation in the automotive industry.

SAP uses AI to enhance decision-making and operational efficiency for manufacturing control, manufacturing quality control, supply chain planning, and personalized customer experiences with real-time data insights.

SAP Industry Network for Automotive is a group of packages that standardize supply chain collaboration, ensuring greater transparency, efficiency, and resilience across automotive operations.

SAP promotes circular economy practices, carbon footprint tracking, and enhanced material traceability to improve sustainability across automotive production and logistics.

Companies can request a demo, explore product road maps for the automotive industry, and consult SAP experts for additional information regarding our automotive software.

SAP Business Suite for Automotive is a fully integrated, modular set of solutions that helps automotive companies connect and optimize every core process across the value chain. Built on a powerful technology platform and over 50 years of industry-proven best practices, it unifies mission-critical applications, real-time data, and embedded AI into one system. This enables transformation of operations, greater agility, and responsiveness to evolving customer demand.

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