High Tech - Electronics Manufacturing Service Provider (EMS/ODM) > 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
  • Cost Per Quote
  • Cycle Time: Inquiry to Contract
  • 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 - EMS

    • Partner Opportunities

  • Partner Opportunities in High Tech - Electronics Manufacturing Service Provider (EMS/ODM)
  • Manufacturing Process Simulation
  • ECAD Integration
  • Patent Management
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    It is critical for EMS to exchange and collaborate on product structures and changes with their Brand Owner customers 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 EMS/ODM’s 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.  DfX (Design for X) services encompass all elements of the product life cycle, from conception to end-of-life, including cost, quality, scheduling and gathering requirements. These services include Design for Manufacturability, Assembly, Test, Service, Components, Environment, Supply chain and Six Sigma.

    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

    Accelerate development cycle
    Reduce administration, improve business processes

     

    Business Processes
    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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    Project Planning and ExecutionSAP Component or Feature Available

    Setting up a project plan including the complete project structure, schedule and assigned documents using cProjects or PS.

    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
    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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    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

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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