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.

SAP APPLICATION

Project and resource management

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

SAP APPLICATION

Product compliance

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

SAP APPLICATION

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

See how customers are succeeding with automotive software from SAP

See what analysts are saying about SAP

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Accelerating digital transformation in discrete industries

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

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Resources

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The AI advantage in the automotive industry

Explore how AI is helping automotive companies move faster and smarter, featuring key insights from industry leaders and SAP customer stories.

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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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See our solutions in action

Learn how solutions tailored to your industry can help you improve operations, innovate faster, and grow with confidence.

Grow your business with cloud ERP

Discover how SAP GROW helps businesses in every industry scale faster with AI-powered cloud ERP designed for growth.

See what’s ahead for your industry

Explore SAP road maps to learn about upcoming innovations, product advancements, and future capabilities.

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.

*The content in this paper was adapted from existing IDC research published on www.idc.com.

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