Innovate & Differentiate with Tailored Solutions for the Automotive Industry

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 Innovate & Differentiate with Tailored Solutions for the Automotive Industry

1. 1. SAP Solution Brief SAP for Automotive Solutions SAP Custom Development Innovate and Differentiate with Tailored Solutions for the Automotive Industry BenefitsSolutionObjectives Quick Facts ©2015SAPSEoranSAPaffiliatecompany.Allrightsreserved.
2. 2. 2 / 10 © 2015 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. Objectives Increase market share and drive new revenue Do you want to shine in today’s unforgiving automotive industry?To stay ahead in a fiercely competitive global market,you must accelerate product development, enrich product quality, lower production cost, and fine-tune logistics. SAP® software and the SAP Custom Development organization bring you leading- edge technologies to help boost innovation and streamline operations. As the digital revolution sweeps the globe, it brings both major challenges and stunning opportunities.Behind this great wave of change, three trends are emerging in the automotive industry.As demand for individualized products gains traction, you must ensure sustainable innovation in offerings and business models. The need for smart manufacturing drives origi- nal equipment manufacturers and suppliers to boost operational efficiencies by integrat- ing logistics with production and leveraging responsive supply networks. Finally, the new Internet ofThings opens vast unexplored options for the aftermarket, like the use of predictive analytics in service. By building individualized applications based on prebuilt SAP software solutions and new mobile, cloud, and Big Data technologies, the SAP Custom Development organization can help you come out ahead. Tailor the SAP software landscape across your plants and dealerships to win share in a crowded market and stay nimble during volatile times. Increase market share and drive new revenue Benefits Quick FactsSolution
3. 3. 3 / 10 © 2015 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. Run better with custom solutions for the automotive industry Automotive companies face tight competition that squeezes margins and punishes hesitation. Customers grow better informed daily, so you must get it right the first time when you intro- duce new products.That means managing inno- vation for success and riding the wave toward individualization. Are you ready for a “market of one”? To hold down costs, you must increase opera- tional efficiencies in the meantime – from idea to sale – by integrating manufacturing and logistics. Have you replaced your linear supply chain with a responsive supply-and-demand network? How will you take advantage of the emerging Internet of Things (IoT)? The SAP Custom Development organization brings decades of experience creating mission- critical solutions that integrate new technologies into existing software landscapes. Our experts help you leverage on-premise,cloud,mobile,and Big Data computing on the SAP HANA® plat- form.You can reinvent your business while miti- gating risk through adherence to our time-tested standards for quality and functionality. We use a proven global-delivery model and synchronize key elements of your solution with the overall solution strategy adopted by SAP. And we pro- vide continuous maintenance and support to safeguard your customized solutions, protect upgrade paths, and lower infrastructure costs. Run better with custom solutions for the automotive industry Help ensure sustainable product innovation Teach supply networks to be responsive Integrate manufacturing and logistics Excel at marketing and aftermarket service Solution BenefitsObjectives Quick Facts
4. 4. 4 / 10 © 2015 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. Help ensure sustainable product innovation R&D groups look to us for tools to encourage collaboration among engineering, procurement, and marketing groups. Such teamwork raises product quality while it eases material cost and production ramp-up. Our customizations also help tighten project and portfolio management, shortening time to market. The SAP Innovation Management solution helps you orchestrate early product develop- ment. Realize the innovation potential of every stakeholder, and stay open to even radical pro- posals. Bridge innovation silos and accelerate the idea-to-concept phase. When you need extensive variant configura- tion to individualize products, we can deploy product cost comparison and control. This process calculates product costs at each step in manufacturing. Simplify legacy interfaces to keep the value flow visible and deepen analytical insight. We can also tailor quality-management pro- cesses to implement rapid identification or prediction of production issues.New insight into assembly and parts manufacturing helps you increase quality and reliability while optimizing planning and inventory. BenefitsSolutionObjectives Quick Facts Run better with custom solutions for the automotive industry Help ensure sustainable product innovation Teach supply networks to be responsive Integrate manufacturing and logistics Excel at marketing and aftermarket service Bring new products to market an average of 26% faster when information moves freely across functional boundaries. Source: Business Performance Benchmarking by SAP.
5. 5. 5 / 10 © 2015 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. Teach supply networks to be responsive Responsive supply network solutions help you move from isolated supply chain silos to inte- grated supply-and-demand networks. SAP Custom Development can fine-tune your logis- tics processes to institute demand-driven planning that takes all financial and opera- tional goals into account.You can stay ahead of trends toward personalized products, same- day delivery, greater automation, and heavier regulation. Maintain transparency to improve logistics,and use embedded analytics to sense, monitor, investigate, and predict events across the network in real time. We can integrate functionality like sequenc- ing into your software landscape as well. Just- in-sequence order management lets you cut lead times by sourcing materials in the sequence in which you use them. Eliminate multiple inter- faces to facilitate reporting and help ensure data consistency. For example, we can also extend the SAP ERP application to offer automatic inventory back- flush, for processing a daily production of up to 7,000 cars within two hours. Impress cus- tomers with quick service as you optimize inventory levels to lower warehousing costs. BenefitsSolutionObjectives Quick Facts Run better with custom solutions for the automotive industry Help ensure sustainable product innovation Teach supply networks to be responsive Integrate manufacturing and logistics Excel at marketing and aftermarket service Improve your on-time delivery rate an average of 8.4% with more accurate demand forecasting. Source: Business Performance Benchmarking by SAP.
6. 6. 6 / 10 © 2015 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. Integrate manufacturing and logistics Our solutions help you manage compliance and risk, control supply and manufacturing costs, and deliver finished goods faster. The SAP Manufacturing Execution application sup- ports responsive manufacturing and continu- ous improvement by integrating lean processes across procurement, production, and logistics. And we build the framework to deliver robust analytics across functions. Gain real-time oper- ational insight, so you can understand where you need to fine-tune processes. The prebuilt SAP Complex Assembly Manufacturing solution lets you share data among plans, bills of material, and change and nonconformance processes. Our accelerator mobile app for this application provides an intuitive interface that delivers complete and timely information to shop-floor staff. Customer-specific additions can enhance the SAP Extended Warehouse Management appli- cation to become a fully integrated system for global ordering and distribution of spare parts. Reduce stock levels, lead times, storage costs, and hours worked to save money and time – and ultimately improve your bottom line.When we integrate such functions with your new manufacturing efficiencies, you gain a stream- lined production and distribution system for delivery on time and within budget. BenefitsSolutionObjectives Quick Facts Run better with custom solutions for the automotive industry Help ensure sustainable product innovation Teach supply networks to be responsive Integrate manufacturing and logistics Excel at marketing and aftermarket service
7. 7. 7 / 10 © 2015 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. Excel at marketing and aftermarket service IoT solutions can deliver data to SAP HANA from sensors embedded in your products. This information can then be analyzed through custom solutions to help marketing and ser- vice staff chart customer preferences to help satisfy the looming “market of one.” Produc- tion teams gain real-time insight into vehicle performance to suggest new designs and configurations. You can also maintain and service plants and vehicles predictively rather than reactively with additional IoT solutions. The SAP Predictive Maintenance and Service solution, technical foundation, from SAP Custom Development gives you a backbone for predictive analysis of large volumes of operational data. Move from insight to action before issues arise, increase asset availability, and raise profit and satisfaction levels. To simplify spare parts management, we can tailor the SAP Service Parts Planning applica- tion to enhance demand forecasting for service parts. We can empower planners with a time- series cockpit, a forecast profile list viewer, a schedule lines loader, and a function to assign parts to product groups. We can also adjust the SAP Dealer Business Management application to offer shift plan- ning, specialist matching, availability check- ing, back-order processing, cost transfer, and credit-limit checking.Communicate intelligently with customers, and integrate your financial processes cleanly. BenefitsSolutionObjectives Quick Facts Run better with custom solutions for the automotive industry Help ensure sustainable product innovation Teach supply networks to be responsive Integrate manufacturing and logistics Excel at marketing and aftermarket service
8. 8. 8 / 10 © 2015 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. Expect to lower manufacturing costs by 15% when you allocate assets to operations with real-time tracking. Source: Business Performance Benchmarking by SAP. BenefitsSolutionObjectives Quick Facts Run better with custom solutions for the automotive industry Help ensure sustainable product innovation Teach supply networks to be responsive Integrate manufacturing and logistics Excel at marketing and aftermarket service Lower costs by streamlining supply, manufacturing, and distribution Please customers with excellence in marketing and aftermarket service Drive new product success with sustainable innovation Prebuilt solutions SAP® Manufacturing Execution application SAP Complex Assembly Manufacturing solution SAP Predictive Maintenance and Service solution, technical foundation SAP Innovation Management solution Examples of custom solutions Just-in-sequence order management Improvements to the SAP ExtendedWarehouse Management application Product cost controlling Predictive quality management Enhanced service parts planning Get a running start with custom and prebuilt solutions Talk to SAP Custom Development about how a solution can be tailored to meet your business needs.
9. 9. 9 / 10 © 2015 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. Tally the benefits of working with SAP Custom Development When you work with SAP Custom Development to individualize your SAP software landscape, you let recognized experts build solutions that can improve business outcomes and protect investments. Promoting sustainable product innovation helps you lower development costs and come to market quickly and successfully. And you build brand loyalty by helping guarantee compliance for new products. Integrating manufacturing and logistics brings you deep operational insight and helps lower risk as it shrinks manufacturing costs. We can also help you transition to responsive supply- and-demand networks.By aligning planning and logistics, you can respond nimbly to changes in the market. And you control costs while boosting on-time delivery rates. Customer-specific IoT solutions help your business capitalize on the next big digital trend by analyzing product location to fine-tune logis- tics and studying consumer behavior to enrich marketing and service. You can improve fore- casting of spare parts requirements and turn reactive maintenance and service processes into predictive ones to polish competitive edge. Tally the benefits of working with SAP Custom Development BenefitsSolutionObjectives Quick Facts SAP serves more than 6,000 automotive companies with innovative mobile, cloud, Big Data, and IoT solutions and a proven global delivery model.
10. 10. 10 / 10 Summary Custom and prebuilt solutions from SAP help automotive companies gain competitive advan- tage by enhancing processes, from design and manufacturing through inventory control and logistics to marketing and service. Leverage game-changing technologies for enterprise mobility, responsive supply networks, and the Internet of Things (IoT). Find innovative ways to deal with shortening development cycles, shrinking profit margins, and skyrocketing customer expectations. Objectives •• Increase cross-functional design collaboration •• Reduce manufacturing costs •• Develop real-time operational insight •• Reduce risk in global supply and distribution networks •• Satisfy customer preferences Solution •• Sustainable product innovation •• Integrated manufacturing and logistics •• Responsive supply networks •• Robust marketing and postsales service Benefits •• Increase equipment effectiveness and staff productivity •• Shorten time to market and increase success rates for innovations •• Build brand loyalty by keeping new products compliant with existing ones •• Help ensure compliance and lower supply network risk •• Protect revenues by reacting quickly to individual preferences and demand shifts •• Foster predictive insight and ongoing improvement with Big Data and IoT solutions Learn more For more on custom solutions for the automotive industry, see www.sap.com /solution/industry/automotive.html. www.sap.com Quick FactsBenefitsSolutionObjectives Studio SAP | 40209 (15/10) © 2015 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved.
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