The data-driven automotive manufacturer

Accelerate Innovation, Streamline Supply Chains, and Drive Profitability — with SAP Solutions Built for the Automotive Industry

To thrive in today’s mobility landscape, automotive companies must master complex, industry-specific processes such as Just-in-Time (JIT), Just-in-Sequence (JIS), and returnable packaging — all while meeting stringent requirements surrounding EDI, RF, RFID, labeling, and traceability.

delaware’s FAST-Automotive solution empowers OEMs, suppliers, and dealers to streamline operations, ensure seamless stakeholder collaboration, and boost efficiency across the value chain. Built for long-term partnership, FAST-Automotive is more than a template — it's a proven roadmap to help you lead the future of the automotive industry.

Overcoming Supply Chain Complexity to Fuel Innovation and Growth

Mastering Supply Chain Challenges

In today’s highly standardized automotive sector, growth depends on your ability to remain compliant, agile, and innovative. The question is: how do you balance strict operational constraints with the need to outpace competitors and accelerate transformation?

Achieving End-to-End Supply Chain Control

Visibility and control across your supply chain are critical to ensuring logistical agility and operational excellence. Leveraging technologies such as EDI, RF, RFID, and intelligent packaging and labeling systems enables you to streamline material flows, stay compliant with industry mandates, reduce costly penalties, and boost productivity and traceability.

Accelerating Innovation Through Collaboration

To stay ahead, you need to innovate faster and smarter. By engaging in co-innovation partnerships with OEMs and suppliers, you can reduce time to market, share valuable insights, and improve R&D outcomes. Robust Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions support agility while keeping your operations aligned with partner expectations.

Driving Smarter Business Decisions

Real-time, insight-driven management is essential for navigating a fast-moving industry. Role-specific dashboards and advanced analytics empower your teams to act quickly and decisively, helping you adapt to market shifts, optimize performance, and drive sustainable growth.

Addressing the Challenges Facing Automotive Manufacturers

A New Era of Automotive Demands a New Approach

The automotive industry is undergoing rapid transformation. To stay competitive, manufacturers must shorten development cycles, reduce complexity and cost, and embrace end-to-end digitalization. Legacy systems and siloed operations no longer support the speed and innovation the market demands.

Accelerate Success with Automotive Best Practices

FAST-Automotive for OEMs and New Entrants

delaware’s FAST-Automotive solution, built on SAP S/4HANA, is tailored for new automotive players looking to scale quickly without the burden of outdated systems. It delivers decades of automotive best practices in a modern, agile package — helping you ramp up faster, operate more efficiently, and meet compliance and quality standards from day one.

Built on SAP S/4HANA for Maximum Efficiency and Agility

A Proven Template for the Modern Automotive Business

FAST-Automotive spans the full value chain — from planning and production to logistics and sales — combining SAP S/4HANA’s power with industry-specific functionality. It supports dynamic, integrated operations with built-in flexibility and emerging technologies, all designed to enhance end-user experience and operational responsiveness.

A Fully Integrated Digital Platform

Seamless Front-End and Back-End Integration

The solution extends beyond the core ERP. With SAP S/4HANA as the foundation, FAST-Automotive integrates easily with digital front-end systems for vehicle sales and robust engineering back-end platforms, enabling a unified, data-driven approach from design to delivery.

Navigating Disruption in Automotive Distribution

Adapting to a Rapidly Evolving Sales Model

The automotive distribution landscape is shifting fast, blending traditional dealer models with digital innovation, direct-to-consumer strategies, and new customer expectations. To stay competitive, distributors must modernize operations, personalize the buying experience, and prepare for what’s next.

Build on a Future-Proof Core

The Foundation for Scalable, Integrated Dealership Operations

To enable innovation, you need a rock-solid digital core. delaware’s dealership-ready ERP template, built on SAP, supports every critical function — from vehicle sales and services to spare parts logistics and portal integration. It ensures data integrity, operational scalability, and seamless alignment between business processes and customer demands.

Deliver Frictionless, Personalized Customer Journeys

From Online to In-Store — One Connected Experience

Today’s car buyers expect a seamless and personalized journey across all touchpoints. delaware helps you unify data from digital marketing, sales channels, and CRM to create a true 360° customer view. By turning insight into action, you’ll increase loyalty, differentiate beyond price, and boost profitability — all while supporting your sales teams with intuitive, connected tools.

Move Beyond Best Practices — Embrace Next Practices

Innovate with XR, AI, and Data-Driven Intelligence

In a fast-changing market, yesterday’s best practices aren’t enough. delaware supports dealerships in exploring and adopting emerging technologies — including extended reality (XR), artificial intelligence, and smart analytics — to build digital capabilities, create new revenue streams, and stay ahead of evolving consumer and market trends.

Why Leading Automotive Manufacturers Choose delaware

SAP Gold Partner status
FAST Automotive RDS (Rapid Deployment Solution)
S/4HANA implementation expertise
Integration with SAP Digital Supply Chain (DSC); EWM, TM, GTS, etc.
Deep industry-specific knowledge across OEMs, suppliers, and dealers

Role	Challenge	How delaware Helps
Supply Chain Lead	Unpredictable disruptions	Real-time planning with SAP IBP and SCM
CIO	Legacy systems slowing digital progress	End-to-end SAP S/4HANA transformation
Dealer Manager	Lack of inventory visibility	Integrated dealer portal & EWM solutions

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