Accelerate Performance Across Your Automotive Supply Chain with the Smart Use of SAP

Q: How can SAP help automotive manufacturers manage supply chain disruptions such as semiconductor shortages?

SAP’s integrated planning and execution tools—such as MRP Live, Advanced Available-to-Promise (aATP), and Production Planning & Detailed Scheduling (PP/DS)—enable automotive manufacturers to identify material shortages early, simulate production alternatives, and reprioritize orders in real time. Reveal helps organizations align these SAP capabilities with proactive supply chain processes to minimize downtime, maintain service levels, and protect profitability.

Q: What are the key considerations for automotive companies migrating from ECC to SAP S/4HANA?

Migrating to SAP S/4HANA allows automotive companies to modernize their digital core with embedded analytics, real-time MRP, and advanced supply chain capabilities. However, many organizations risk carrying forward legacy inefficiencies. Reveal’s S/4 Smart Set Up approach ensures that your migration emphasizes process optimization, data quality, and end-to-end performance alignment—delivering measurable business value, not just a technical upgrade.

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Building Resilient, Data-Driven Supply Chains for a Fast-Changing Industry

Designing a great vehicle is hard enough mass-producing it at scale, profitably, and sustainably is an entirely different race.

The automotive industry is being reshaped by electrification, digital transformation, and global supply disruption. From semiconductor shortages to volatile demand, the challenge isn’t just keeping the line running, it’s ensuring every process, part, and decision adds measurable business value.

Yet, many SAP-run automotive manufacturers and suppliers still rely on fragile spreadsheets, manual workarounds, and siloed data that undermine agility, margin, and service performance. The result? Millions tied up in inventory, missed delivery windows, and a growing gap between operational execution and strategic goals. Reveal exists to change that.

Turning SAP into a Performance Engine‍

You don’t need more software, you need to unlock the full value of the SAP system you already own. Reveal’s methodology empowers automotive leaders to turn SAP from a transactional system into a real-time performance engine that drives agility, reliability, and profitability.

By aligning people, process, and system behaviors, we help you:

Increase visibility and control from production planning to customer delivery
Optimize MRP, ATP, and EWM to ensure the right part is available, at the right time, in the right place
Reduce working capital by right-sizing inventory and eliminating redundant buffers
Improve service levels through synchronized demand, supply, and capacity planning
Enable real-time decision-making with accurate, trusted data across S/4HANA and ECC

Built for the Automotive Enterprise

SAP provides a robust digital foundation for complex automotive operations from multi-tier supplier coordination to vehicle sequencing and after sales service. Reveal helps you bring that potential to life.

Our work with global OEMs, Tier 1, and Tier 2 suppliers has delivered measurable results by optimizing critical SAP functions such as:

Production Planning & Detailed Scheduling (PP/DS): Synchronize manufacturing operations with material availability and real-time capacity constraints.
Advanced Available-to-Promise (aATP): Ensure high-value orders are prioritized and confirmed accurately with intelligent allocation rules.
Extended Warehouse Management (EWM): Streamline inbound and outbound logistics, support JIT/JIS execution, and reduce dwell time.
Demand & Supply Planning (IBP or classic MRP): Improve forecast accuracy, balance production loads, and reduce expediting.
Quality and Maintenance Integration (QM/PM): Connect shop-floor reliability to supply chain performance, reducing downtime and waste.

Driving Measurable Business Impact

Through education, enablement, and embedded change, Reveal helps automotive manufacturers and suppliers unlock hidden profit by improving how SAP is used every day.

Our clients consistently achieve:

‍10–25% inventory reduction without compromising service levels‍
20–30% improvement in schedule adherence and material availability
Greater supply chain resiliency and responsiveness in volatile market conditions

Automotive and mobility organizations that have embraced Reveal’s approach have transformed their operations, reducing waste, improving working capital, and aligning supply chain performance with corporate goals. They’ve proven that SAP can be the vehicle for operational excellence, not just a system of record.

Ready to Accelerate Your Supply Chain Performance?

The road ahead demands agility, speed, and precision. Let Reveal help you unlock the full potential of your SAP-driven supply chain, improving visibility, trust, and performance from design to delivery.

Start your journey with a Supply Chain Self-Assessment or connect with our experts to learn how leading automotive organizations are driving measurable business outcomes with SAP and Reveal.

Success Stories

See what some of your industry peers have achieved and how Reveal has enabled their success.

Borgwarner Turbos

24%

Inventory Reduction

Southco Inc.

$17.3M

Reduction in Past Due Orders

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Q&A

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How can SAP help automotive manufacturers manage supply chain disruptions such as semiconductor shortages?

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SAP’s advanced planning and execution tools such as MRP Live, Advanced Available-to-Promise (aATP), and Production Planning & Detailed Scheduling (PP/DS) allow automotive manufacturers to detect material constraints early, simulate production alternatives, and reprioritize orders in real time. Reveal helps align these SAP capabilities with proactive supply chain processes to minimize downtime, maintain service levels, and protect profitability.

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What are the key considerations for automotive companies migrating from ECC to SAP S/4HANA?

A

The transition to S/4HANA offers a powerful opportunity to modernize the digital core with real-time MRP, embedded analytics, and advanced supply chain capabilities. However, many organizations unintentionally carry forward old inefficiencies and data issues. Reveal’s S/4 Smart Set Up approach focuses on process optimization, data quality, and end-to-end performance alignment ensuring your migration delivers measurable business value, not just a technical upgrade.

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How does Reveal help automotive manufacturers optimize JIT/JIS operations and warehouse efficiency in SAP?

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Reveal works with OEMs and Tier 1–2 suppliers to fully leverage SAP Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) and Production Supply functionality to support Just-in-Time (JIT) and Just-in-Sequence (JIS) manufacturing. By improving line feeding, sequencing, and inbound logistics visibility, Reveal enables manufacturers to reduce dwell time, increase throughput, and ensure smooth production flow even amid volatile supply conditions.