Automotive - In the automotive industry, where traditional business models are transforming into transparent, customer-driven value chains, success depends on speed. Speed in product development, speed in assembly, and speed in delivery and service to dealers and customers. To stay on the fast track to success, integration of OEMs, suppliers, dealers, and customers is essential.

It is now essential for the suppliers & dealers to work in sync with the OEM's.

SAP Business One provides the suppliers of the automotive industry a completely integrated business management solution that supports all of the key business processes and workflows of small and midsize businesses. It goes far beyond the typical stand-alone, disconnected silos of departmental automation to deliver a true cross functional system. The user programmable alerts, workflows, and unique functions for management by exception to create an end to end solution for complete visibility, tracking, management control, and analytic reporting of all key enterprise drivers.

SAP Business One offers automotive suppliers

• Capability to define forecast & schedules.
• Define BOM, Work Centers (capacity), and Routing.
• Do material planning using MRP wizard and get Purchase Orders and Production Order recommendation for planning horizon as short as JIT.
• Schedule machine loading in an optimized manner based on constraints defined for loading.
• Collect shop floor data like men / machine utilization for productivity measurements.
• Collect planned and actual cost.
• Draw meaningful production reports.

SAP Business One for Pre-engineered - Managing a make to order or custom build products business actually needs a tool that can help quickly define a project and then help carry out all activities related to that specific project like purchase, manufacturing, deliveries and invoicing accurately.

SAP Business One for Projects helps companies in this industry to

• Estimate and quote for a project accurately and efficiently.
• Keep track of all the discussions and quote revisions during the sales process.
• Apprises about the project profitability throughout your sales process when the sales cycle is long and where the raw material prices could be varying frequently.
• Helps freeze the sales order with deliverables.
• Ensures that all the activities (purchase, manufacturing, deliveries and invoicing) w.r.t to a particular project even when you are running few hundred project simultaneously are being carried out correctly.
• Notifies about any exceptions that are happening while executing those projects vis a vis what was agreed.