AUTONOMOUS SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
Product Design Assistant
Enhance product development with agentic intelligence that streamlines design, accelerates decision-making, and reduces risk and rework.
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Overview
The Product Design Assistant is an AI‑driven system of agents that connects data across design, engineering, and downstream processes. It analyses product information, supports change decisions, ensures compliance, and coordinates collaboration—helping teams move faster, reduce rework, and deliver higher-quality products across industries.
Tasks this assistant can help with:
- Autonomously analysing product designs, recipes, and specifications
- Preparing product changes, independently scoping, and assessing impacts
- Validating compliance and requirements across product and recipe data
- Extracting and classifying product data and automating quality improvements
- Establishing collaborations, monitoring tasks, and autonomously generating notifications
- Preparing product data for handover to production and supply chain execution
Example use cases for this assistant:
- Product and recipe change execution including analysing designs, validating requirements, assessing impacts, coordinating tasks, and preparing compliant changes for release
- Production-ready product data handover, including extracting, cleansing, validating, and packaging product data to ensure accurate, compliant transfer to manufacturing and downstream processes
Benefits
Accelerated innovation
Analyse designs, recipes, and product data to surface insights instantly and release products more quickly.
Autonomous lifecycle guidance
Proactively flag issues, assess change impacts, validate requirements, and recommend next steps to reduce rework.
Connected development process
Link design, engineering, compliance, and downstream processes and helps teams stay aligned.
Built-in compliance and quality
Check designs, materials, and recipes against internal rules and regulations for risk detection and quality control.
Featured agents used by this assistant
Use the Joule Assistant for product design to orchestrate specialised AI agents, including Joule Agents that apply SAP’s process expertise or custom agents you create.
Product Knowledge Retrieval Agent
Finds similar products, parts, or recipes and explains design history in natural language
Product Change Management Agent
Drafts and routes change requests, identifies affected items, and guides end-to-end change execution
Product Data Maintenance Agent
Extracts, structures, and maintains high-quality product data across materials and specifications
Product Structure Optimisation Agent
Optimises product structures by aligning BOMs and recommending cost- and risk-reducing alternatives
Recipe Formulation Agent
Creates recipe variations, detects inconsistencies, and optimises formulae based on constraints
Packaging Compliance Officer
Assists organisations in preparing for PPWR by interpreting packaging regulations, structuring required data, identifying gaps, and supporting conformity checks.
GHS Classification and Labelling Agent
Supports product compliance teams by determining GHS classifications and label elements that can be used as a basis for compliance documents and dangerous goods classifications.
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