Strategic partnerships
Strategic partnerships and collaborative networks are an important building block for our successful digital transformation. Through our digital ecosystem, we find the right technology suppliers, development partners or initiators. By combining different perspectives and experiences, innovative and practical digital solutions are created.
Digitalizing together
We provide our industrial know-how and technological expertise and shape the digital future together.
Together with our strategic partners SAP, Microsoft and PTC, world leaders in their technology areas, we are taking our digital transformation to the next level.

SAP
Since 2019, we have been working with SAP in a strategic partnership and are jointly developing the SAP solutions used at Schaeffler. Our focus is on improving IT application systems to ensure greater efficiency and agility in our value chain and to implement corresponding transformation projects.

Microsoft
Since 2020, within the framework of our strategic partnership with Microsoft, we have been working together to shape the focus areas of cybersecurity, digital competence, artificial intelligence, and sustainability. We establish the necessary infrastructures and platforms as the foundation for digital solutions.

PTC
Since 2022, PTC and Schaeffler have been strategic partners. Together, we optimize our IT environment for our engineers to provide our product developers with an integrated, agile, and seamless IT landscape.
Partners for Schaeffler: Identifying digital potential through collaboration

Innovation comes from teamwork. Who could know that better than the employees at Schaeffler? The company has consistently held a top position in the rankings of the German Patent and Trademark Office for the most innovative companies in Germany.
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Schaeffler AG
Industriestraße 1–3
91074 Herzogenaurach
Germany