With SAP S/4HANA as the digital core, customers can iteratively and more collaboratively build a foundation of requirements-driven smart products that are brought to the market faster with full compliance and a wide range of configurations and variants. SAP S/4HANA allows companies to gain live visibility into idea pipeline, portfolio prioritization, project actuals versus budget, new product design, development history, engineering changes, and finally phase-out.
SAP S/4HANA enables companies to integrate, embed intelligence,and visualize the entire R&D process from idea, to product, to production, to service, and disposal. Connected and individualized products can be developed with full compliance and shorter time to market.
- Run design processes on live insights into customer needs and market opportunities
- Perform multilevel “what if” analyses with predictive insights to drive better design decisions
- Analyze live performance of the project portfolio with predictive insights at any stage of the innovation process
- Simplify access to project information for stakeholders and team members with the ability to drill down
- Define and analyze product costs and manage all engineering changes effectively along the lifecycle
- Create a platform as the single digital backbone of product master data for internal and external collaborations across the enterprise
- Provide connected design capabilities, integrating requirements, mechanics, electronics, software components, and simulation, as well as synchronizing all downstream product development needs internally and externally
- Manage flexible, high-performing, and ease-of-use configuration and classification for product individualization
- Integrate and validate compliance requirements in the development process and manage product declarations as part of the product properties for all variants across the product supply chain and lifecycle
- Plan and communicate resource demand to match available resources in the long and short term
- Simplify decisionmaking and processes across the enterprise for manufacturing, service,and marketing through intuitive visualization
Ideation and Concept Development
- Innovation campaigns running inside and outside the enterprise
- Repository for ideas and feedback for development-to-concept stage
Portfolio and Project Management
- Respond quickly to customer inquiries and requirements
- Coordinate resources across a project’s lifecycle
- Use performance metrics to make informed decisions
- Support for product, service, and asset lifecycles
Product Development
- Reuse existing components and recipes
- Do costing simulations
- Manage change-controlled structures and variants
- Hand over to manufacturing and service, with full design authoring tool integration
Compliance Management
- Design products keeping material, global, regional, and industry compliance
- Prepare quality and safety sheets for downstream use
SAP S/4HANA is The Next Generation Business Suite For A Digital World
The opportunity exists to transform business processes and achieve the digital transformation of your business with more automation and real-time visibility. Our SAP HANA and Big Data solutions address these important these needs and more. Let us show you today! Set up a free consultation.
