Automotive
Support innovation and performance across the automotive value chain
Transform your automotive operations, increase agility, and meet evolving customer demand with one integrated platform.
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.
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.
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Cideon Cloud CAD Integration
Links data from modern cloud-based CAD systems with SAP
Strategic sourcing
Strategically source materials from a global network of suppliers to:
Achieve sustainable savings with AI-enabled guided sourcing.
Select from a vast global pool of suppliers.
Qualify suppliers and compare bids to realize savings at scale.
Trigger projects directly from category management initiatives.
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Supplier collaboration
Enhance supplier collaboration to boost resilience, streamline sourcing, and drive agile automotive procurement processes.
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Procurement contract management
Boost efficiency and supply chain resilience with automated procurement and contract compliance.
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Procurement analytics
Gain real-time insights into sourcing and procurement to boost resilience, reduce costs, and enhance your performance in automotive.
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Capgemini Supplier Integration for Automotive
Supplier portal which allows your suppliers to self-service their user access to your backend resources via single sign-on.
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Icertis Contract Intelligence (ICI) for SAP Ariba
Optimize your source-to-pay processes with ICI for SAP Ariba.
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Price conditioner
Take control of your pricing processes—fully integrated with your SAP S/4HANA.
Collaborative supply chain management
Optimize supply chain planning and sustainability to:
Track serial numbers, batches, and components across industries.
Manage and monitor carbon footprint for parts and components.
Reduce complaints and clarify warranty claims with streamlined processes.
Improve transparency in processing used materials and enable recovery.
Provide early notifications for capacity bottlenecks and shortages across the network.
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Supply network planning
Boost resilience and customer satisfaction by quickly aligning automotive supply plans to demand signals across your supply network.
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Warehouse management
Synchronize material flows between warehouse and shop floor for an efficient material supply for your automotive production line.
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Returnable packaging management
Drive sustainability, reduce packaging costs through efficient planning and rentals, and promote partner collaboration.
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Variant Configuration Planner
Enable Sales & Operations Planning for Configurable Products.
Manufacturing execution
Bring decision-makers and manufacturing processes together to:
Analyze performance globally and locally, collaborate on issues, and communicate metrics transparently.
Use seamless resource planning to align operations and logistics amidst fluctuating demand.
Manage work in progress, monitor tasks, handle qualifications, and ensure stable processes.
Coordinate AI-driven automation for employees, processes, and products using the latest technologies.
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Production planning and scheduling
Boost agility and cut costs with real-time, integrated production planning that adapts instantly to changing demand.
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Manufacturing insights
Gain real-time insights to optimize plant performance, quickly resolve bottlenecks, and align strategy with execution.
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Asset performance management
Reduce downtime and costs with real-time maintenance, repair, and operations planning, scheduling, and analytics.
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Kinexon OS
Connect and automate operations: redefine manufacturing & logistics efficiency.
Customer data management
Bridge front- and back-end data to deliver trusted, personalized engagements and:
Integrate ERP, supply chain, and other cloud solutions common data model.
Enrich customer insights and operations using generative AI.
Orchestrate customer data with engagement systems by data privacy rules.
Calculate segments and manage audiences for real-time decisions.
Integrate and push customer data to engagement systems by purpose.
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Transportation management
Cut freight costs and improve customer service by optimizing global shipments and meeting trade and hazardous goods compliance.
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Export management
Efficiently manage export processes, optimize tariff classification, and protect margins with smart, compliant trade operations.
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Intelligent product recommendations
Cut the effort required to create quotes for complex products with AI-enabled recommendations on the product and configuration that best meets your customers’ needs.
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Vistex Extended Price Management
Manage manage complex pricing more efficiently.
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Vehicle Sales and Service (VSS)
The innovative, adaptable, intelligent Dealer Management System on SAP S/4HANA.
Service parts management
Manage your service parts inventory in real time with:
Execute end-to-end parts planning for distribution-centric businesses.
Achieve transparency and planning capabilities.
Optimize real-time, network-based planning for complex and volume-intense processes.
Unify planning and execution in a single system.
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Omnichannel service
Increase sales and loyalty with automotive aftermarket solutions for omnichannel service, parts, warranties, and claims.
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Product availability check and order promising
Ensure reliable fulfillment with real-time availability checks across your supply network to boost customer satisfaction.
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Complaint handling
Monitor complaints holistically and boost supplier recovery with transparent, integrated processes.
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BearingPoint Lease & Rent
Optimize your leasing & rental business with a multi-capability solution.
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Project44
Real-Time Supply Chain Visibility for SAP Business Network for Logistics.
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Optimized Dynamic Pricing by Pricefx
The most flexible AI powered pricing platform to drive rapid margin growth.
Self-Billing Processing
Streamline your self-billing processes:
Automate self-billing processes to minimize manual input and errors.
Enable real-time reconciliation of financial transactions for up-to-date accounts.
Integrate data across financial and supply chain systems to ensure cohesive information management.
Leverage comprehensive monitoring tools to track and resolve deviations promptly.
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Real-time financial analysis
Streamline operations, reduce risk, and enhance SKU profitability with real-time financial data
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Travel, expense, and invoice management
Gain visibility into spend—anywhere, anytime—to cut costs, be more efficient, and drive compliance across your organization
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Workforce management
Optimize staffing, control labor costs, and stay compliant with automation, real-time insights, and seamless integration.
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Human capital management
Empower your employees with the information, skills, and technology they need to best serve shoppers
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WorkForce Software Time and Attendance
Gain visibility into workforce costs, reduce administrative effort, comply with local laws, and improve employee engagement.
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Avalara AvaTax for SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Public Edition
Automated sales tax determination and calculations in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public
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