Automotive
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.
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.
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.
Tailored automotive industry solutions
Meet your specific automotive business needs and harness the latest innovations with industry solutions from SAP and our partners.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Returnable packaging management
Enable circular logistics flows for returnable and reusable packaging materials such as containers and pallets with SAP Returnable Packaging Management.
Carbon footprint tracking
Get a comprehensive picture of your carbon footprint at scale with calculations that integrate supplier data and existing business data.
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.
Charge point management
Reduce charging costs and avoid power grid overload with embedded AI in our electric vehicle charging solution.
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.
Resources
Future-proofing automotive success
Discover megatrends driving the automotive industry forward and the strategic pillars that are essential for success.
Digital solutions for electric mobility
Drive towards a sustainable future and transition to carbon-neutral e-mobility.
Give drivers what they want
See how our solutions make managing complex automotive business models easier, giving customers the mobility they want.
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.
The service opportunity for automotive firms
Unlock brand value with mobility services that reflect customer needs and preferences for convenience and cost-savings.
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.
25% reduction in warehousing errors
Find out how Bridgestone is digitalizing end-to-end warehouse operations across New Zealand and improving worker efficiency.
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.