Automotive companies face a variety of challenges – everything from rapid introduction of new products and technologies to lean manufacturing, globalization, and regulatory compliance. The Industry Value Network group for automotive brings SAP together with SAP customers and partners to focus on key priority business needs and opportunities in the automotive industry.

The group drives strong collaboration between members to accelerate co-innovation and provide integrated, multivendor solutions and services to support key end-to-end business processes for our customers. This enables customers to benefit from a new level of interoperability, reduced total cost of ownership, as well as increased transparency and productivity across the entire value chain.

The Group for Automotive – In Action

Members of the SAP Automotive Advisory Council are working with SAP and leading-edge partners in the automotive industry to deliver innovative solutions and new, extended integration scenarios that address the key challenges in the automotive industry. Find out more about the SAP partners helping to address these challenges:

• Product development
  • Independent software vendors – Cenit, Right Hemisphere, and TechniData
  • Technology partners – Adobe
• Lean manufacturing
  • Independent software vendors – Seeburger, SupplyOn, and Visiprise
• Sales and service
  • System integrators – Accenture, Capgemini, and IBM
  • Technology partners – Adobe and Microsoft