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proaxia DBM|E® is ideal for extending your SAP® Dealer Business Management (SAP DBM) to adapt the system to your requirements, to accelerate implementation and migration, to share best practice pro-cesses and innovative developments with all proaxia DBM|E® users, and at the same time reduce the costs of further development and maintenance.

proaxia DBM|E® – the solutionproaxia DBM|E® adds new functionalities and components to SAP DBM in response to the specific requirements of regional markets, industry segments and brands.

SAP Dealer Management System supports all automotive retail processes: sales of new and used vehicles, spare parts shop with payment processing, workshop order processing with time tracking and integrated warranty processing.

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DBM|E® Core

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Industry Component

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Partner Managed Cloud

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proaxia DBM|E® architecture• proaxia DBM|E® Core with functions for the

optimized use of SAP DBM based on best practice experience and innovative developments that benefit the entire DBM|E® Community.

• proaxia DBM|E® Industry Component with inter-faces and functions for specific industry segments such as fleet providers or dealers in various business areas related to cars, truck or special and construction vehicles.

• proaxia DBM|E® Brand Layer with interfaces to integrate SAP DBM with OEM systems and brand- specific core processes.

• proaxia DBM|E® Partner Managed Cloud offers SAP DBM and proaxia DBM|E® components as a cloud solution.

proaxia continues to develop the solution, issuing two releases per year. The first two releases 16.1 and 17.1 include proaxia DBM|E® Core functionalities.

Further innovative developments are planned, includ-ing e.g. the integration of vehicle use data for optimized diagnosis and vehicle management.

The proaxia DBM|E® solution is based on SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA®. In addition to SAP GUI, the user interfaces are based on SAP Fiori®, mobile technology or web technology depending on the process requirements. In this way, the solution can be ideally adapted to each and every workflow.

proaxia DBM|E® Core – functionalitiesproaxia DBM|E® Core release 16.1 and 17.1 include functional extensions for SAP DBM that have frequently been implemented in previous individual customer projects. These include interfaces for integrating other SAP solutions, general purpose interfaces and tools for accelerating introductions of SAP DBM and for enhancing process performance.

Available proaxia DBM|E® functions• Commission management

Supports the automatic calculation and the approval process of sales commissions

• Mobile Service Advisor Supports complete dialog reception and other work-shop processes using an iPad®, directly at the vehicle in dialog with the customer

• System translation tool Supports efficient translation of your system into several languages

• Business Partner quality package Fuzzy search avoids duplicates when registering new business partners, a cleaning cockpit helps clean up existing duplicates

SAP DBM 8.1 - SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA®

SAP® Hybris®

Automotive extension for SAP Hybris

proaxia Vehicle Insights App

Standard solution by SAP or proaxia Available proaxia DBM|E® Core functionality

proaxia-DBM|E® Core functionality, planned for release 17.1

Processes

Functionalities aligned with proaxia DBM|E® Customer Community

Parts Procurement Assistant

Workshop planning

Commissionmanagement

Mobile Service Advisor

Material Info Cockpit

Business Partner quality package

Systemtranslation tool

EstimationPlatform

Integration

Sales process Service and parts process

SAP Hybris integration

SalesDriverintegration

SAP Vehicle Insightsintegration

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proaxia DBM|E® – Customer Community proaxia is building a Customer Community to ensure that future developments are optimally geared to the requirements of markets and clients. Within this com-munity, representatives of client businesses, SAP and proaxia cooperate closely on release planning and the design of new functionalities.

As a proaxia DBM|E® customer you can input your specific requirements for a solution and share in shaping the development roadmap and the functional specifica-tions of a solution. In this way, you benefit from sharing experience within the community.

Planned proaxia DBM|E® Core functions• Workshop planning

Simplifies workshop planning processes, beginning with scheduling the appointment and including plan-ning resources in the shift schedule and workshop capacity planning. Resources such as workers and replacement vehicles or other types of resources can be scheduled.

• SAP® Hybris® interface Enables the transfer of customer and vehicle histories from SAP DBM to SAP Hybris as a basis for campaign management and transfer of leads to the Vehicle Sales Assist module in SAP DBM.

• proaxia SalesDriver integration Transfers status information from the sales process to the proaxia SalesDriver for sales staff and perfor-mance management.

• Automotive Extension for SAP® Hybris® Supports marketing campaigns and generating leads using SAP DBM data.

• Integration of SAP Vehicle Insights Supports connected-car scenarios for the fleet manager and driver and enhances service processes through the availability of real-time vehicle data such as fuel consumption, fuel level, error and service codes.

• Material Info Cockpit Provides a quick overview of key material master data, including prices, inventories, consumption, open orders and requirements.

• Estimation Platform Integration Supports the workshop process by providing inte­grated Audatex calculation of damage costs.

• Parts Procurement Assistant Helps you decide whether to relocate parts from other storage facilities or to procure them from external sources and assists in optimizing parts inventory.

proaxia DBM|E® – cooperation between SAP and proaxia SAP and proaxia have partnered to develop proaxia DBM|E®. This close cooperation makes additional functions and adaptations readily available for certain customer groups and markets while ensuring the integration of SAP Dealer Business Management with other SAP solutions. SAP and proaxia jointly consult to move forward the design and development of proaxia DBM|E®.

proaxia excels as a competent partner through their experience from more than 30 implementation projects with different brands worldwide, their own development center and experienced support organization.

proaxia DBM|E® is developed in accordance with SAP quality requirements and is certified by SAP. This ensures that its components are optimally geared to one other, interact stably and provide a future-proof solution. Technological innovations are integrated at an early stage.

Your benefits from proaxia DBM|E®

• Stability and security of a standard product including maintenance and continued innovative development

• Full compatibility of proaxia DBM|E® with future releases of SAP DBM

• Easy replacement of other solutions that are not ide-ally integrated or do not fully meet automotive retail requirements

• Easy integration of SAP DBM with other SAP solutions relevant for automotive retail

• Lower cost compared with in-house development: lower project cost and lower maintenance cost due to ensured upgradability to future SAP DBM releases

• Cost savings through replacing third-party solutions (reduction in licenses, hardware and integration effort)

• Cost savings through a simplified application land-scape

• proaxia DBM|E® Customer Community, allowing customers to share in shaping the development road-map and in the specification of new functionalities

• Potential of benefiting from the experience of other community members

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proaxia consulting group ag is an international manage-ment consultancy firm headquartered in Switzerland and with branches in Europe and Asia. With more than 200 consultants in German­speaking countries, Poland, China, Japan, Singapore and Indonesia, the company guarantees superior solutions and service plans as well as follow-up support, in every case to the highest quality standards.

As an SAP partner, proaxia specializes in distribution and service processes and supporting spare parts logistics processes in the automotive and discrete manufacturing industries.

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