Automotive

Advance your business with automotive industry solutions from SAP, helping you navigate the dynamic world of mobility.
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Automotive IT solutions for carmakers, suppliers, and dealerships

Our automotive industry software helps you prepare for the future of mobility while running profitable and sustainable operations today.

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Our automotive software can help you:

  • Manufacture and adopt electric vehicles (EVs) and batteries

  • Integrate AI into your connected cars by merging customer and vehicle data

  • Unlock new revenue streams with mobility services

  • Build a resilient supply chain in a secure and trusted data ecosystem

  • Drive a sustainable and profitable mobility business 

Find out how our customers are using automotive industry software from SAP

Automotive industry software from SAP and our partners

Solutions that address specific automotive industry needs help you achieve cost-effective transformation and sustainable growth.

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Real-time insights

Boost efficiency, cut costs, and enhance quality with real-time inventory, demand, and supply chain insights provided by our modern, ready-to-run cloud ERP.

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Tailored automotive industry solutions

Meet your specific automotive business needs and harness the latest innovations with industry solutions from SAP and our partners.

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Battery cell manufacturing

Grow your battery business with purposeful and meaningful data, harmonized and relatable analytics, and a unified process model that avoids data silos.

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Customer data platform

Bridge front-end data and back-end data to better understand automotive customers and deliver trusted, personalized engagements at any step of the journey.

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Profitable e-commerce, everywhere

Drive profitable outcomes by creating connected, insightful, and adaptive commerce experiences, all on a feature-rich and scalable platform that you can trust.

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Vehicle data management

Achieve a holistic approach to vehicle, sales, and data management with solutions that provide a vehicle-centric view of sales and car-as-a-service processes.

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Scalable supply chain planning

Optimize supply chain planning and support digitalized operations, smart warehousing, and sustainability through network collaboration with packages that are part of the Catena-X initiative.

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Returnable packaging management

Enable circular logistics flows for returnable and reusable packaging materials such as containers and pallets with SAP Returnable Packaging Management.

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Carbon footprint tracking

Get a comprehensive picture of your carbon footprint at scale with calculations that integrate supplier data and existing business data.

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Visual inspection enabled by AI

Carry out AI-assisted visual inspection checks for defects with a single click using photos, machine learning, and the power of the cloud.

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Charge point management

Reduce charging costs and avoid power grid overload with embedded AI in our electric vehicle charging solution.

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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.

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

Our automotive industry solutions can help you run traditional automotive businesses profitably and more sustainably, while driving new growth with innovative mobility business models.

Research, development, and engineering

Collaborate with partners across the automotive ecosystem, accelerate product development, and help ensure compliance with auto industry standards.

Manufacturing and outbound logistics

Run agile, highly autonomous automotive manufacturing, production, and assembly processes using Industry 4.0 and smart factory technologies from SAP. 

Responsive supply networks

Create a fast, responsive, and resilient automotive supply chain, proactively sensing disruptions, reducing your carbon footprint, and delivering ahead of demand.

Sales and marketing

Deliver personalized, differentiated automotive experiences that create customers for life. You can connect data from all sources to get deeper insights and proactively meet customer needs on every channel.

Aftermarket service

Grow revenue and drive brand loyalty with automotive aftermarket solutions that support omnichannel customer service, parts management, warranty claims processing, and complaint handling.

Smart mobility and transformation

Embrace change and shift toward mobility as a service while monetizing new business models for autonomous, connected, electric, and shared vehicles. 

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Harnessing AI for automotive

Watch how SAP Business AI can help mitigate supply chain disruptions, supercharge efficiency, and bring unparalleled agility in your sales landscape.

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Future-proofing automotive success

Discover megatrends driving the automotive industry forward and the strategic pillars that are essential for success. 

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Digital solutions for electric mobility

Drive towards a sustainable future and transition to carbon-neutral e-mobility.

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Give drivers what they want

See how our solutions make managing complex automotive business models easier, giving customers the mobility they want.

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Next practices for the road ahead

Find out how we can help you adopt cloud-based solutions and next practices for a sustainable automotive business.

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The service opportunity for automotive firms

Unlock brand value with mobility services that reflect customer needs and preferences for convenience and cost-savings.

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A day in the life of Lewis Hamilton

Discover how the use of next-generation solutions by SAP customers impact a typical day for racing driver Lewis Hamilton. 

Collaborating to transform the automotive industry

Learn about a new collaboration that leverages SAP Integration Suite, SAP Datasphere, and Google Cloud's capabilities.

Take the next step

Road map for automotive solutions

See how our innovations help carmakers, suppliers, and automotive retailers compete in the smart mobility era.

SAP news about the automotive industry

Find out what’s hot in the automotive sector. We provide an overview of the latest trends and challenges impacting businesses as the automotive industry evolves.

Join our automotive community

Stay up to date on the latest automotive innovations, trends, and solutions and gain insights through blogs, discussions, and events.