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Innovation Management

Business Scenario

 

Business Scenario Maps

  • Document Management
  • Engineering Change Management
  • Project Management for R&D

    • Key Performance Indicators

  • Capacity Utilization
  • Concept Approval Cycle Time
  • Material Process Engineering Costs
  • Product & Process Data Accuracy
  • Production Lead Time
  • R&D costs as a % of Revenue
  • Research & Development Costs

    • SAP Best Practices

  • Available preconfigured scenarios in SAP Best Practices for High Tech - Semiconductor

    • Supplementary Products

  • SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (SAP MII)

    • Partner Opportunities

  • Partner Opportunities in High Tech - Semiconductor
  • Patent Management
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    Process technology improvements are the driving force behind the electronics industry. Smaller geometries continue to adhere to Moore's Law (Gordon Moore - Co-Founder of Intel) with the announcement of early production at the 90 nanometer node. A nanometer is one billionth of a meter, or about 4 atoms sitting side by side. The challenge faced by the design engineer is to maximize this tiny space to provide the most functions per device. Advanced design tools provide the platform and state of the art engineering practices drives the next generation electronic devices. Companies today deliver designs from idea to product in about 18 months. Those that can reduce this cycle time, even a little bit consistently, will enjoy higher margins, lower costs, and reduced time to market.

    Business Goals & Objectives


    Improving Service Delivery

    Collaborate with business partners

    Increasing Revenue

    Develop new markets
    Extend market share
    Gain market share
    Maximize profitability by product

     

    Business Processes
    Idea and Concept ManagementSAP Component or Feature Available
    SAP xPD addresses the hurdles and inefficiencies at the critical front-end of product development processes: idea management and concept development. This solution enables organizations to capitalize on every possible good idea for new products or services, study their market potential and technical constraints, evaluate if and how to efficiently produce them and then come up with a short list of promising product concepts that match a company's strategy.
     
    Strategic Portfolio ManagementSAP Component or Feature Available
    The primary challenge of strategic portfolio management is to provide a comprehensive up-to-date view of a company’s entire project portfolio and answer several important questions. Is the portfolio aligned with corporate goals? What is the future demand for resources and what is the capacity? Are the most skilled employees working on the most appropriate projects? Will the portfolio meet its business performance targets? What are the risks and impact of a delay? Timely answers to these questions are critical in determining which projects to pursue and which ones to fix or cancel. Project registration and enforcing an enterprise-wide decision making process for approving projects is an additional critical area in strategic portfolio management. Strategic portfolio management combines and gives visibility into the financial, strategic and operative aspects across your entire project portfolio to enforce governance, to make fact-based decisions and to maximize return on existing assets.

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

  • SAP Resource and Portfolio Management (SAP RPM)

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    Resource and Time ManagementSAP Component or Feature Available
    Assigning resources to work that has to be done in the project including resource search using PS or cProjects. After the project has been released this process covers time confirmation on projects.

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

  • SAP ERP

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    Project PlanningSAP Component or Feature Available
    Setting up a project plan including the complete project structure, schedule and assigned documents using cProjects or PS.

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

  • SAP ERP

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    Managing Product PortfoliosSAP Component or Feature Available
    Analysis of the existing product portfolio and definition of future product portfolios is a further prerequisite for product development. Continuation of the existing portfolio and the addition of new product modules must both be possible. The product portfolio greatly influences both market/sales opportunities and costs and risks, and therefore the competitive strength of future business. The definition of target groups, degrees of individualization, sales channels, and other design approaches at a strategic level takes place at the end of the process.more...

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

  • SAP ERP

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