Digital Automotive is the first real-time sales planning solution tailored for automotive suppliers. Built on deep industry expertise and seamlessly integrated with S&P Global Mobility forecasts, it enables suppliers to automate reporting, simulate volume and price scenarios, and plan strategically – all without Excel chaos.
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Global Mobility Data – Fully Integrated, Fully Automated.Digital Automotive powers key processes:
Drive Strategy with Real-Time Market Alignment
Digital Automotive empowers automotive suppliers to steer their planning with precision and strategic intent. By integrating S&P Global Mobility forecasts and internal data, the system helps you prioritize targets, align with budgets, and ensure long-term competitiveness – all in real time.
Key Capabilities:
- Automated strategic project suggestions based on market trends and potential
- Real-time market monitoring for customers, platforms, and products
- Full transparency into booked projects, acquisition projects and strategic projects
- Budget alignment: compare strategic goals with real-world market developments
- Long-term lifecycle planning from acquisition to SOP and EOP
- Annual, quarterly and monthly views
- Automated dashboards for high-level strategic review
Turn sales planning into a strategic growth driver – with real-time insights.
Simulate, Compare, Decide – with Total Flexibility
From mid-term forecasts to best-case and worst-case planning, simulate all volume and price scenarios in just a few clicks. Digital Automotive gives you the flexibility to explore options – and the clarity to make the right call.
Key Capabilities:
- Scenario planning across customer, internal, and market data
- One-click project duplication for alternative case simulations
- Side-by-side comparison of volumes, prices, and margins
- Timeline simulation for SOP shifts or market changes
- Consistent data management across all scenarios
Your future, visualized and under control.
S&P Global Mobility Forecasts – Built In
Make smarter decisions with global market data at your fingertips. Digital Automotive connects directly to S&P Global Mobility, delivering accurate, up-to-date production forecasts – seamlessly mapped to your parts and customers.
Key Capabilities:
- Drill down by region, powertrain, vehicle type, platform, or model
- Analyze market shares and award gaps in real time
- Auto-link forecasts to your internal parts and project data
- Use market data as the foundation for strategic planning
- Easy project set-up with link to S&P Global Mobility data
No more spreadsheets. Just market clarity.
Seamless Integration with Your Existing Systems
Digital Automotive connects effortlessly with SAP, PLM, and other key systems to ensure consistent, traceable data across sales, controlling, and management.
Key Capabilities:
- ERP and PLM integration for pricing, volume, and cost
- Real-time updates across all planning modules
- No redundant data entry – once entered, used everywhere
- Secure cloud hosting with high availability
- Fully auditable and compliant workflows
A connected system for connected planning.
Acquisition, Claim and Change with Benchmark Processes
- Acquisition calendar for resource planning*
- RFQ data, evaluation, quoting, approval summary*
- Automatically generated order intake reports
- Automatic warning system for contract deviations*
- End-to-end claim process until the compensation is received
- Open claims report for management attention
- Claim performance report
CHANGE - increase profits
- Benchmark processes for internal and external changes
- Process and automatize management reports
*Enriched with S&P Global mobility data and forecasts
Reimbursements & investments from planning to invoicing
- One-time-payments are processed end-to-end from the acquisition-phase until cash flow
- Reimbursements for tools, R&D, quick savings, and all investments can be filtered and drilled-down so that you never lose control of your cash flow
- Short- and mid-term view for cash flows on all levels: project, region, customer, plant etc.
Prices & costs under control over the entire life cycle
- Replacing hundreds of Excel price lists with one database
- Prices are automatically updated with inputs from Change or Claim management
- Error prevention safeguards