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Product Development

Business Scenario

 

Business Scenario Maps

  • Collaborative Engineering with cFolders
  • New Product Development
  • Process Engineering
  • Project Management for R&D

    • Key Performance Indicators

  • Average Development Cost per New Product
  • Average Project Revenue
  • Bill of Material Data Accuracy
  • End of Life Inventory
  • Number of End Products,SKUs
  • Time to Market
  • Yield

    • SAP Best Practices

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

    • Partner Opportunities

  • Partner Opportunities in High Tech - Semiconductor
  • Manufacturing Process Simulation
  • ECAD Integration
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    Driven by consumer demand and fueled by advances in technology, many companies must bring more and more products to market in order to remain competitive and sustain profitable growth. That's why new product development and introduction (NPDI) may be your most critical core business process. Smaller feature size has created ever more sophisticated and specialized electronics. Customer's demand integrated devices specifically designed for their application giving rise to the Application Specific Integrated Circuits or ASIC market. Tight relationships between customer and supplier are necessary to provide the focus and resources necessary to develop the product to meet market demand. Engineers are employing innovative new ways to work closely with their customers and speed delivery of the final product.

    Business Goals & Objectives


    Improving Service Delivery

    Collaborate with business partners

    Increase Speed & Efficiency

    Reduce cycle time to approve and implement engineering changes
    Speed innovative products / designs to market

    Increasing Revenue

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

    Reducing Operating Costs & Increasing Efficiency

    Reduce cost-of-goods-sold (COGS)

     

    Business Processes
    Product DevelopmentSAP Component or Feature Available
    NPDI is the process of defining the product strategy, managing the program, gathering requirements, developing the product, sourcing for suppliers involved and managing the ramp-up.

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

  • SAP ERP

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    Maintaining Master Data CentrallySAP Component or Feature Available
    You can use this business process to create master data centrally in SAP Master Data Management (SAP MDM). Working from the master data client (MDC) that requires new master data, the local master data manager can, for example, call the request for creating master data through the SAP Enterprise Portal.

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

  • SAP ERP

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    Development CollaborationSAP Component or Feature Available
    Development Collaboration allows the optimization of cross-enterprise product development with internal and external teams. This is reached among other things by a consistent central storage of all relevant specifications & data during the entire collaboration process and a secure integration of external partners.

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

  • SAP ERP

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    IP MaintenanceSAP Component or Feature Available
    Process to create and maintain IP master and the relationships to other IP's

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

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

  • SAP ERP
  • SAP ERP: Environment, Health and Safety

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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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