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Digital Core for Automotive

Capgemini is the strategic transformation partner for automotive OEMs and suppliers navigating the shift to software-defined vehicles, sustainable operations, and intelligent customer experiences.

As the industry undergoes rapid disruption, many of our clients are initiating large-scale business transformation programs, driven by the need to modernize legacy systems, unlock enterprise-wide data, and accelerate innovation.

Our automotive offer is built on the next-generation SAP Business Suite: an integrated, AI-native platform that unifies data, applications, and business processes across the enterprise. Whether you’re embarking on a transformation journey through RISE with SAP as an existing customer, or adopting GROW with SAP as a new ERP entrant, Capgemini delivers a clean, cloud-native enterprise core that’s ready for the future.

We help clients unlock the power of enterprise data, embed Gen AI and Agentic AI into every layer of the value chain, and drive measurable outcomes across engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and customer experience.

What we do

Capgemini delivers clean-core SAP S/4HANA Cloud transformations that form the foundation of the new SAP Business Suite. For existing SAP customers, we guide the journey through RISE with SAP, helping them modernize legacy landscapes, adopt modular innovations, and move to the cloud with minimal disruption. For new SAP ERP customers, we accelerate greenfield deployments through GROW with SAP, delivering pre-configured industry best practices and rapid time-to-value.

Through our co-innovation with SAP, especially the AutoCloud program. We have embedded automotive-specific capabilities like JIT/JIS logistics, returnable packaging, and supplier collaboration directly into the public cloud roadmap. Our approach ensures clients benefit from a modular, upgrade-friendly architecture that supports continuous innovation and seamless integration with SAP BTP and Industry Cloud.

We help automotive clients unlock the full value of their enterprise data by harmonizing it across ERP, PLM, MES, CRM, and connected vehicle platforms. At the heart of this transformation is our use of SAP Business Data Fabric, which enables seamless data connectivity, governance, and real-time access across the SAP ecosystem.

With the acquisition of Syniti, now a Capgemini company, we’ve significantly strengthened our ability to deliver trusted, high-quality data at scale. Syniti’s intelligent data platform is now fully embedded into our SAP delivery model, bringing industry-leading capabilities in data migration, master data management, and data quality automation. This ensures that clients moving to SAP S/4HANA Cloud under RISE or GROW programs benefit from accelerated, secure, and clean data transitions.

Together with Capgemini’s proprietary data mesh accelerators, Syniti’s platform enables enterprise-wide data harmonization, automated cleansing, and enrichment while creating a single source of truth that powers predictive analytics, digital twins, intelligent workflows, and ESG reporting.

Capgemini integrates Gen AI into SAP landscapes to drive productivity, creativity, and speed. Our Gen AI accelerators automate documentation, simulate product variants, generate contextual insights, and enhance customer interactions. These capabilities are embedded across engineering, supply chain, and support functions enabling teams to reduce cycle times, improve decision-making, and unlock new levels of operational efficiency through natural language-driven experiences.

We are pioneering the use of Agentic AI, autonomous digital agents that perceive, decide, and act across business processes. In the automotive context, these agents optimize production schedules, resolve support tickets, and personalize customer journeys. Integrated into SAP Business Suite, Agentic AI enables self-improving operations that reduce manual effort, increase accuracy, and adapt in real time to changing conditions.

Capgemini Engineering supports the full lifecycle of next-gen vehicle development, from embedded software and EV platforms to digital twins and OTA updates. We help OEMs transition to software-defined vehicle architectures that enable continuous innovation, data monetization, and faster feature deployment.

We enable intelligent, resilient operations by integrating AI, IoT, and digital twins into manufacturing and supply chain processes. Our solutions include predictive maintenance, autonomous intralogistics, digital MES, and AI-powered demand planning. In addition, we support critical supply chain functions such as direct material sourcing and spare parts management, covering both planning and fulfillment. These capabilities help reduce costs, improve agility, and support net-zero goals empowering automotive enterprises to operate with greater precision, responsiveness, and sustainability.

Sustainability is embedded into every solution we deliver. We help clients achieve ESG goals through green ERP, circular economy models, and carbon tracking tools. Our solutions support net-zero factories, green procurement, and responsible product design, enabling clients to grow responsibly while meeting regulatory and stakeholder expectations.

Solutions

This is a strategic, multi-year global collaboration between Capgemini and SAP to co-develop and commercialize “best of all worlds” cloud solutions for the automotive industry.

Joint Development: SaaS solutions built through shared expertise and resources.
Co-Innovation: Automotive-specific features developed on SAP Industry Cloud.
Joint Go-to-Market: Leveraging Capgemini and SAP’s global reach to scale adoption.

It began with the supplier market, launching assets like Capgemini Intelligent Assistant for Auto (CIA4Auto) and Capgemini Supplier Integration for Automotive (CSI4Auto), now available on the SAP Store. Capgemini’s Order Simulation for Automotive on SAP is another innovative SaaS solution predicting future configurations for millions of vehicles to be manufactured, enabling smarter planning and faster response to market shifts. Today, we’re expanding into OEMs, EVs, and sustainability, with a focus on supply chain finance, green mobility, and circular economy models.

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Meet our experts

Elisabetta Spontoni

Group Offer Leader for Digital Core
Elisabetta is responsible for driving the Digital Core offer lifecycle end-to-end. This entails building value add service offers around enterprise core processes and applications transformation, building innovative assets and solutions that position Capgemini leadership in the field, and promoting the offers in the market. She is also leading the packaged solutions portfolio in the ERP and supply chain space and strategic learning and certifications for the global packaged solution business line.

Laurence Noël

EVP, Head of Global Automotive Industry, Capgemini
Laurence Noël is a distinguished professional with a robust background in the automotive industry. She has more than 25 years of experience, and was previously Senior Vice President of the Circular Economy Business Unit at Stellantis. Leveraging a diverse background across management of business units, strategic planning and engineering, Laurence empowers clients to shape profitable and successful strategies, achieve transformation, and meet automotive sustainability goals.

Uwe Sandvoß

Engagement Director PBS/SAP

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