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Driving success in the automotive industry with SAP consulting services

Navigating the twists and turns of the automotive industry comes with its fair share of challenges—supply chain disruptions, advancements in autonomous driving tech, and new market entrants. Cars are packed with sensors and technologies that need to be tightly integrated. At SNP, we get the complexities of this journey and offer SAP solutions customized to help you turn these challenges into opportunities, unlocking the potential of automotive data for long-term success.

Automotive companies generate massive volumes of data from vehicle sensors, production lines, customer interactions, and more. To keep operations running smoothly, downtimes must be minimized, especially during SAP projects.

Our unique approach at SNP focuses on reducing downtime to keep your business on track while implementing or upgrading SAP solutions. With 30 years of experience in SAP services, SNP has successfully completed various projects in the automotive industry – from M&A and S/4HANA transformations to data integrations and cloud migrations  

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For Volkswagen:

SNP consolidated and harmonized data from two legacy SAP source systems and migrated them to S/4HANA.

For Audi:

SNP migrated simultaneously two extensive SAP systems (finance and logistics) to SAP S/4HANA with just 50 hours of downtime per go-live.

For Honda:

SNP merged two company codes and their respective organizational hierarchies in only eight days.

Our SAP expertise in the automotive industry

Mergers and acquisitions: streamlining complexity

In the fast-paced automotive sector, mergers and acquisitions are commonplace. At SNP, we specialize in managing complex M&A projects. From seamless system carve-outs to strategic consolidations, we ensure that your SAP systems evolve as swiftly as your business does.

  • Our seasoned consultants have proven multiple times that they can find solutions for your “mission impossible”

  • Our tool SNP Validate speeds up data validation test cycles by 80%

  • We know how to get things done in near zero downtime, with minimal disruption to your business

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S/4HANA transformations: Greenfield, brownfield and BLUEFIELDTM

Embark on the S/4HANA journey with confidence. SNP has extensive expertise in greenfield, brownfield, and BLUEFIELDS/4HANA transformations. Whether you're building from scratch, optimizing existing systems, or seeking a hybrid approach, our solutions align with your unique business requirements.

  • Benefit from our experience with over 600 S/4HANA migration projects, including successful transformations for major players in the automotive industry

  • For every project, we offer our custom-built CrystalBridge data management platform for analyzing, archiving, restructuring, and migrating data securely and quickly to new systems or cloud environments.

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Data integration: Elevate with SNP Glue

SNP Glue is your key to seamless, stable, real-time provisioning of SAP data. Our powerful software solution connects disparate systems, opening up new possibilities for real-time analytics. SNP Glue works with and beyond SAP, catering for various use cases. With SNP Glue, you can easily build your data platform and feed it with data from various sources.

  • SAP certified, compatible with Snowflake, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Cloudera, Azure, and other major cloud providers

  • It pushes data and responds to requests from target systems

  • Features change data capture (CDC) and data streaming, enabling event-based architectures

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  • Automotive
  • Latin America
  • S/4HANA
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  • Automotive
  • Latin America
  • S/4HANA

Indumotora masters the first SAP S/4HANA RISE conversion in Latin America

Indumotora's objective was to perform a technical conversion of its current SAP ECC 6.0 EHP4 system to the new SAP S/4HANA suite that would allow it to maintain and preserve the functionalities.

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  • DACH
  • Automotive
  • Europe
  • SAP S/4HANA
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  • DACH
  • Automotive
  • Europe
  • SAP S/4HANA

Audi AG moves to SAP S/4HANA® at top speed

In line with their slogan “Vorsprung durch Technik,” Audi AG are investing in state-of-the-art technology and IT architecture. Following SAP’s announcement that maintenance for older product versions will end, the focus is on SAP S/4HANA. With multiple projects in the pipeline, Audi AG implemented two simultaneously at the start of 2023, introducing SAP S/4HANA Finance to establish a central finance system and migrating to SAP S/4HANA in the area of maintenance logistics. Both projects ran quickly and securely thanks to SNP.

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  • Harmonization
  • Carve outs & divestitures
  • Automotive
  • DACH
  • Europe
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  • Harmonization
  • Carve outs & divestitures
  • Automotive
  • DACH
  • Europe

Time-critical carve-out drives restructuring program at SHW Automotive

The SHW Group stands for intelligent manufacturing in the automotive sector and is experiencing rising demand. To drive this development going forward, the company needed to transform its Powder Metallurgy business segment into a separate legal entity. Technically speaking, they needed to spin off the existing SAP system at the company code level. SNP delivered the audit-proof solution quickly and with minimized system downtime.

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  • Harmonization
  • United Kingdom
  • Automotive

Inchcape reorganizes SAP data in response to local legislative changes

Up until recently, Inchcape had been operating both its Eastern European and Russian businesses on a shared SAP system hosted in Europe. However, with legislation stating that any data relating to its Russian business needs to be processed and stored in a local SAP system, Inchcape were faced with a bit of a dilemma. They had to carve out the data, and they had to do it fast to avoid legal implications. Either Russian or Eastern European data needed to be carved out while also considering Inchcape’s other transformation and consolidation projects which would impact the decision and timeline. Comparisons between the systems and data sets were also required to highlight any potential issues.

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Let's steer your success journey together – contact us now

Ready to navigate the challenges of your SAP transformation together? Contact us today to discuss how SNP can tailor SAP solutions to meet your business needs and goals.