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Deliver personalised mobility at scale and as a service through a customer-centric ecosystem using SAP solutions for the automotive industry.

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Create opportunity with new business models built on innovative technology

The mobility landscape is evolving from the impact of connected, autonomous, shared, and electrified (CASE) mega-trends. Vehicles must become platforms for mobility services, delivering amazing customer experiences.

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SAP Road Map for Automotive

Support the automotive value chain with intelligent solutions and integrated, automated processes that are transparent and connected to the real world, delivering a superior customer experience.

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Current release highlights

  • Integration of demand-driven planning with material requirements planning (MRP)
  • Machine learning for demand management and forecasting
  • Advanced data models for electric vehicles, charging equipment, and renting assets
  • Embedded machine learning and conversational AI bots within service and support processes 
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Upcoming innovations

  • Intelligent product design collaboration and embedded software in bill-of-material processes
  • Predictive MRP with interactive capabilities to forecast capacity and component demand
  • Intelligent selling scenarios with AI and machine learning and further experience management marketing integration 
  • Application of machine learning and data science to moving asset data, such as routes and locations
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Future plans

  • Enhance shop floor visualisation and use machine learning in health and safety management
  • Enable an intelligent, connected business using technology based on the Internet of Things
  • Provide an intelligent, agile transportation network that supports various mobility options 
  • Offer AI-based problem-solving, virtual agents for support, and predictive services

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-15 %

manufacturing costs, where machinery and tools are allocated to operations and status and usage is tracked in real time.

SAP Performance Benchmarking

-13 %

cost per interaction, where multichannel communication is used to optimise customer contact.

SAP Performance Benchmarking

35 %

reduction in warranty returns.

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Find out how a transformative framework  for innovation and technology can help you adopt industry best practices while standing out from the competition.

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Learn about the five strategic priorities for discrete manufacturers – and how technologies powered by the Intelligent Enterprise can help you meet your business goals.

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Learn how you can compete profitability in the digital age using a proven technology framework to adopt automotive best practices for your enterprise. Achieve operational excellence across core customer engagement, manufacturing, and financial processes – and your business as a whole.

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Jump-start your SAP solutions and drive ROI by collaborating with industry experts, consultants, and support engineers to receive guidance, prescriptive best practices, and expertise – no matter where you are on your journey.

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Get the most from your automotive solutions – today and as your business needs evolve

Today’s customers want a seamless buyers’ journey, from research to purchase. It’s up to you to understand what they need. By working with SAP experts at the start of your implementation and beyond the go-live, you can keep pace with automotive industry trends while continuously meeting buyers’ needs. You can also expand your automotive solutions as your business grows.

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Become a digital leader with a prepackaged service that delivers predefined end-to-end business processes, test cases, configuration guidelines, and project accelerators for your industry. 

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Learn how you can overcome some of your greatest challenges today and in the future by becoming an interconnected company that can embrace collaborative thinking to strengthen business relationships and build an adaptable workforce.

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Reimagine mobility for the modern world

Learn how Swiss innovation powerhouse Rinspeed AG leverages optimised, intelligent software solutions to provide a seamless mobility experience for consumers.

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Gain new opportunities for success by strengthening and maturing your digital commerce to better serve customers with the experiences they want.

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Rich Lindow
Senior Solution Specialist, Automotive Business Unit
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Director, Global Marketing Lead – Automotive and IM&C
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Discover how intelligent technology provides unprecedented insight into how customers use their vehicles, and learn how that data can support your business.

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Bonnie D. Graham
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