Dealer Management add on required

One of our prospective clients in the automotive industry is need of a

comprehensive Dealer Management System (DMS), which should cover
invoicing, inventory, service management & showroom. Currently there has
not been any such implementation done in our country for SAP business One
in this industry. We are looking for an addon that will cover the requirements
of our client. If anybody has any knowledge of such addon that has been
previously been implemented in another country please advise me as such. I
will appreciate any help im this regard.

Solutions:

1.Check this Dealer Management System (DMS) Addon from Mahindra Logisoft

[http://www.mahindralogisoft.com/products.html#Dealer Management System

(DMS)]
There are two editions of 'Dealer Management System(DMS)' from
Mahindra Logisoft.

1. Autoshoppe which is standalone system

2. Auto 3S which is add on for B1

Vehicle Management System (IS-
A-VMS)
Purpose
The Vehicle Management System (VMS) is an application for the Automotive
industry. It supports, in the area of Sales & Services, the business processes that
you require as vehicle importer when dealing with your original equipment
manufacturers (OEMs) and your dealers in new and used vehicle sales . VMS
offers you complete integration of all the relevant processes such as procurement,
sales, rework, returns processing, trade-in and service processing. It also supports
the archiving of vehicle data. In other words, it allows you to react flexibly to
customers’ requirements in the area of production (using the “pull strategy”) and fast
delivery times with reduced warehouse stock and sales/distribution costs.

For the vehicle importer , VMS serves as a central tool for managing, procuring,
sales/distribution and tracking of vehicles. Your dealers use it as a workplace for
configuration, searching, purchasing, and tracking of vehicles for your end
customers. The dealers can log in to your system remotely via the Internet and
access your data. You do not require your own SAP system for this. You only need
an Internet browser, via which you work with a simplified VMS internet interface .

You can enhance or change this internet interface, for example, if you wish to adapt
it to your suit your corporate design.

Note

The word importer is used as an umbrella term to include organizations such as

distribution centers, logistics centers, OEM-owned sales organizations and such like.
For reasons of ease, however, the word importer is used in this documentation.
The following graphic shows the use of VMS in vehicle procurement, vehicle sales,
and service:

Integration
 VMS is completely integrated into the SAP application components MM, SD,
CS and FI/CO.
 For vehicle configuration in VMS, you can use the characteristic value
assignment screen . The characteristic value assignment screen is activated
in the standard.
 You can implement VMS together with SAP Advanced Planning and
Optimization ( SAP APO ) as the planning system and with SAP Business
Information Warehouse (SAP BW) as the reporting system for analysis and
evaluation purposes. You can use the following functions in SAP APO :
cooperative demand planning and characteristics-based forecasting.
 Dealers can use a Web Dynpro-based user interface.
 Furthermore, there are two interfaces to further external SAP applications
(SAP SCEM and SAP CRM); these applications can be used optionally.
The following graphic displays the complete integration from demand planning to
evaluation and analysis.

Features
 Vehicle Master Data

You can manage all your vehicles centrally in a vehicle data pool and thus
make them available to yourself and your dealers. You can store
both business and technical master data for a vehicle in this data pool. The
business details include data such as status of the vehicle (created, ordered
and so on) or the availability of the vehicle (available, reserved, sold etc.). The
technical details include data such as the individual features of the vehicle
(horsepower, motor type, color etc.) as they have been defined in SAP variant
configuration. For more, general information on standard variant configuration
functions, see: Variant Configuration.

Note that Advanced Variant Configuration is also supported. For more

information, see Advanced Variant Configuration.

 Vehicle Search
 There are various comprehensive functions which both you and your dealers
can use to search for vehicles in the data pool. Search criteria are, for
example, vehicle data, configuration, vehicle status, posting
documents or end customer/consumer . The basis for the search is always
a specific vehicle model or a selection of models. These models must have
been created as configurable materials in the SAP system (see
also: Constructing a Vehicle Configuration

A filter concept ensures that dealers who log in to your system only see
vehicles that you have assigned to them or released for their viewing.

 Execution of Actions

You can call and execute actions for a vehicle easily and quickly from VMS.
By an action we mean a business function that affects the procurement of a
vehicle at the manufacturer by the importer or the sale of the vehicle to the
dealer. Examples are: create or change vehicle, create purchase order (at
manufacturer), create sales order/delivery/outgoing invoice (for dealer) and
post goods receipt/goods issue.

A large part of the actions delivered by SAP are based on the SAP standard
transactions: they are delivered in a separate and easy-to-use interface but
with the complete functionality.

The posting documents that are created by these actions are also SAP
standard posting documents that are stored in the application components
MM, SD, CS or FI/CO in the SAP system.

Apart from these general business actions, there are also Special VMS
Actions , for example, actions for making reservations, actions that hide or
display vehicles for other dealers, actions for changing vehicles, for setting a
vehicle location or for assigning a sales campaign.

You can enhance the actions that are delivered to suit your own requirements
or program your own actions. The action concept is on a modular basis and
flexible so that you can adjust it at any time to suit changes in your business
processes.

There is a one screen transaction (based on the vehicle as object) with an

integrated interface for vehicle master data, vehicle searches and actions
(see: Transaction Codes for VMS ). To access this transaction,
choose Logistics LogisticsExecution Vehicle ManagementSystem Vehicle
Manager or transaction VELO from the SAP Easy Access screen.