High Tech - Business, Medical & Consumer OEMs > Time-to-Market > Product Development

Product Development

Business Scenario

 

Business Scenario Maps

  • CAD-Driven Design Process
  • Engineering Change Management
  • New Product Development
  • PLM Data Replication in a Distributed Environment
  • Project Management for R&D
  • xApp: Cost and Quotation Management (SAP xCQM)
  • xApp: Product Definition (SAP xPD)

    • Key Performance Indicators

  • Return Rate
  • Returns
  • Bill of Material Data Accuracy
  • End of Life Inventory
  • Engineering Change Order Time
  • New Product Release Phase In, and Maintenance costs
  • Number of ECOs
  • Warranty costs

    • SAP Best Practices

  • Available preconfigured scenarios in SAP Best Practices for High Tech OEM

    • Supplementary Products

  • SAP Cost and Quotation Management (SAP CQM)

    • Partner Opportunities

  • Partner Opportunities in High Tech - Business, Medical & Consumer OEMs
  • Manufacturing Process Simulation
  • ECAD Integration
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    Within the last 10 years, there has been a huge industry trend of outsourcing manufacturing capacities to contract manufacturers, also known as EMS providers (electronic manufacturing services). Today, around 40% of all electronic equipments are manufactured by EMS providers. Therefore it is critical for OEMs to exchange and collaborate on product structures and changes with their manufacturing partners during the entire life-cycle of a product. Internal and external collaboration is the key to accelerating and improving product development and quality. This means OEMS need a streamlined product structure management, document management, change, and configuration management and project management systems in an integrated environment which can be used across company boundaries.

    Business Goals & Objectives


    Improving Regulatory Compliance

    Improve auditability of information and actions

    Improving Service Delivery

    Collaborate with business partners

    Increasing Revenue

    Develop new markets
    Reduce time-to-market & volume

    Reducing Operating Costs & Increasing Efficiency

    Reduce administration, improve business processes

     

    Business Processes
    Project ExecutionSAP Component or Feature Available
    Executing a project based on the project plan including creation of documents, simulation of alternative project structures and analytics using cProjects or PS

    This process is supported by the following SAP and/or partner offerings

  • SAP ERP

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    Development CollaborationSAP Component or Feature Available
    The business process "development collaboration" allows you to optimize a cross-enterprise product development with internal and external teams including the sourcing of complex product components. This is reached among other things by a consistent central storage of all relevant data during the entire collaboration process and a secure integration of external partners and suppliers.

    This process is supported by the following SAP and/or partner offerings

  • SAP ERP

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    Process EngineeringSAP Component or Feature Available

    During Process Engineering all information regarding the needed activities to build or assemble a product is generated. This follows a step by step approach starting with early data regarding the foreseen production locations and will then be detailed until the durations and needed resources are defined. Process Engineering is an iterative process and takes into account the ongoing changes both in the product documentation / BoM and in the routing definition.

    This process is supported by the following SAP and/or partner offerings

  • SAP ERP

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    Quality EngineeringSAP Component or Feature Available
    Quality engineering means incorporating quality throughout the entire product development process. This starts with defining deliverables and quality gates within a project, includes inspection planning as well as efficient supplier management and maintenance of quality related documents. In some industries, stability studies are also part of this process.

    This process is supported by the following SAP and/or partner offerings

  • SAP ERP

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    Specification ManagementSAP Component or Feature AvailablePartner Product Available
    Manages business specifications and phases for product development

    This process is supported by the following SAP and/or partner offerings

  • Compliance for Products by TechniData
  • SAP ERP
  • SAP ERP: Environment, Health and Safety

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    Product Structure ManagementSAP Component or Feature Available

    Allows the management of structures describing the product and the management of product data needed for manufacturing. Makes use of product variant structures (iPPE) and/or bills-of-material. Supports the whole product development process from the creation of requirement structures to the generation of bills-of-material for production.

    This process is supported by the following SAP and/or partner offerings

  • SAP ERP

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    SAP Product Available Partner Product Available SAP Product Available with Future Releases Partner Product Available with Future Releases Future Focus