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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Our 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, personalise experiences, and build lasting loyalty across the entire vehicle lifecycle.

Boost resiliency across your value chain

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

Drive toward a greener future

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

Transform data into an advantage

Optimise operations, personalise customer experiences, and accelerate innovation for a stronger competitive edge.

AI for automotive

Accelerate automation, work smarter, and reduce inefficiencies with AI that combines automotive expertise with assistants that orchestrate agents across operations.

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Autonomous adaptive production

Unify configure-to-order (CTO) and engineer-to-order (ETO) workflows to boost delivery speed, efficiency, and margins.

Autonomous commodity management

Synchronise trading, logistics, and processing decisions in real time to optimise margins, increase capacity, and reduce risk.

Autonomous unified commerce

Continuously orchestrate merchandising, planning, marketing, shopping, and fulfilment to increase margins, conversions, and customer value while reducing costs.

Explore how automotive software from SAP and partners 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:

  • Boost traceability by linking requirements with product and business data.

  • Improve data accuracy with a single source for product and material specs.

  • Accelerate smart product design using unified business and engineering data.

  • Enable faster decisions with unified product master and sustainability data.

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Project and resource management

Improve project efficiency through cross-team collaboration and intelligent resource optimisation.

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Product compliance

Safeguard compliance processes throughout product lifecycles with built-in business checks.

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Product lifecycle cost calculation

Protect revenue margins with insights that support reduced costs, innovative product development, and brand value preservation.

PARTNER APPLICATION

Cideon Cloud CAD Integration

Links data from modern cloud-based CAD systems with SAP

Strategic sourcing

Optimise sourcing performance and resilience with intelligent tools that help you:

  • Achieve sustainable savings using AI-guided sourcing.

  • Expand sourcing options by discovering and matching suppliers globally.

  • Improve sourcing value at scale by qualifying suppliers and comparing bids.

  • Accelerate sourcing by initiating projects from category management programmes.

SAP APPLICATION

Supplier collaboration

Enhance automotive procurement and strengthen supplier collaboration through streamlined sourcing and agile processes.

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Procurement contract management

Boost efficiency and supply chain resilience by enabling automated procurement and integrated contract compliance.

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Procurement analytics

Strengthen automotive procurement resilience using real‑time insights that reduce costs and improve sourcing outcomes.

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PARTNER APPLICATION

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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PARTNER APPLICATION

Icertis Contract Intelligence (ICI) for SAP Ariba

Optimise 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.

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Collaborative supply chain management

Optimise supply chain planning and sustainability within your network to:

  • Improve traceability by tracking serial numbers, batches, and components.

  • Measure environmental impact by monitoring part‑level carbon footprints.

  • Increase customer satisfaction with streamlined warranty and claims.

  • Enable circularity through transparent tracking of used materials.

  • Enhance forecasting and quality control using embedded AI.

  • Strengthen risk management with early alerts for bottlenecks and shortages.

SAP APPLICATION

Supply network planning

Strengthen automotive resilience and customer satisfaction using tools that align supply plans with real-time demand signals.

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Warehouse management

Streamline automotive production by synchronising material flows between warehouse operations and the manufacturing shop floor.

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Returnable packaging management

Drive sustainability and reduce costs with efficient planning and packaging rentals that enhance partner collaboration.

PARTNER APPLICATION

Variant Configuration Planner

Enable Sales & Operations Planning for Configurable Products.

Manufacturing execution

Bring decision-makers and manufacturing processes together to:

  • Align performance using transparent global and local production metrics.

  • Increase agility by balancing resources and logistics as demand changes.

  • Stabilize processes by tracking work in progress and shop‑floor tasks.

  • Boost resilience and productivity through AI‑enabled shop‑floor automation.

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Production planning and scheduling

Boost agility and cut costs by using real-time production planning that adapts instantly to changing automotive demand.

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Manufacturing insights

Improve plant performance and resolve bottlenecks using real‑time insights that help align execution with strategic goals.

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Asset performance management

Reduce downtime and costs using real-time maintenance, repair, and operations planning supported by scheduling and analytics.

PARTNER APPLICATION

Kinexon OS

Connect and automate operations: redefine manufacturing & logistics efficiency.

Surface insights from customer data in real time

Bridge front‑ and back‑end data to deliver trusted, personalised engagement to:

  • Ensure data consistency by unifying ERP, supply chain, and cloud systems.

  • Improve customer insights by enriching data and operations with AI.

  • Enable compliant engagement by orchestrating customer data by privacy rules.

  • Support real‑time decisions by calculating segments and managing audiences.

  • Improve engagement accuracy by routing customer data by intended purpose.

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Transportation management

Cut freight costs and improve customer service using shipment optimisation tools that comply with trade and hazardous goods standards.

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Export management

Protect margins and improve trade efficiency using smart, compliant export processes and optimised tariff classification.

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Intelligent product recommendations

Cut quoting effort for complex products using AI that recommends the right product and configuration for each customer.

PARTNER APPLICATION

Vistex Extended Price Management

Manage manage complex pricing more efficiently.

PARTNER APPLICATION

Vehicle Sales and Service (VSS)

The innovative, adaptable, intelligent Dealer Management System on SAP S/4HANA.

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Extended service parts planning

Improve service parts availability, costs, and responsiveness in real time to:

  • Manage end‑to‑end parts planning across distribution‑centric service networks.

  • Reduce costs and boost uptime with automated, AI-driven parts forecasting.

  • Gain transparency and improve planning accuracy with a unified inventory view.

  • Plan complex, high-volume processes in real time using network-based systems.

  • Respond to demand faster with integrated planning and execution within a single system.

SAP APPLICATION

Omnichannel service

Increase sales and loyalty using automotive aftermarket solutions that unify omnichannel service, parts, warranties, and claims.

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Product availability check and order promising

Boost customer satisfaction with reliable fulfilment and real-time availability checks across your supply network.

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Complaint handling

Boost supplier recovery and improve complaint resolution through transparent, integrated processes across your network.

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PARTNER APPLICATION

BearingPoint Lease & Rent

Optimise 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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Optimised Dynamic Pricing by Pricefx

The most flexible AI powered pricing platform to drive rapid margin growth.

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Self-billing processing

Automate and manage self‑billing processes to:

  • Minimise manual input and errors by automating invoices processing.

  • Maintain up-to-date accounts with real-time reconciliation of financial transactions.

  • Maintain cohesive information by integrating financial and supply chain data.

  • Track and resolve deviations promptly using comprehensive monitoring tools.

SAP APPLICATION

Real-time financial analysis

Improve operational efficiency, reduce risk, and increase SKU profitability using real-time financial analysis and reporting.

SAP APPLICATION

Travel, expense, and invoice management

Increase spend visibility, control costs, and help ensure compliance with automated travel, expense, and invoice management.

SAP APPLICATION

Workforce management

Optimise staffing, control labour costs, and maintain compliance using automated workforce management with real-time insights.

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Human capital management

Empower employees to serve shoppers better by connecting skills, data, and experiences through human capital management.

PARTNER APPLICATION

WorkForce Software Time and Attendance

Gain visibility into workforce costs, reduce administrative effort, comply with local laws, and improve employee engagement.

PARTNER APPLICATION

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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FAQ

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 personalised customer experiences with real-time data insights.

SAP Industry Network for Automotive is a group of packages that standardise 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.

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