Launching R&D Engineering

The market is experiencing a disruptive shift in customer demand for new, extensive, smart, and personalized products. The journey of a new product begins in the Research and Development (R&D) department, where the greatest impact can be made by improving features and reducing costs. A successful R&D department brings new formulations and designs to life quickly and accurately, based on input from the market, customers, and technology. R&D integrates closely with downstream departments to manufacture, sell, and service products with higher quality and lower cost. The department continuously iterates formulations and designs to create more profitable, desirable, and reliable products."

SAP solution for R&D Engineering makes the following possible:

• Increase revenue from new products by enabling variants and personalized, smart products.
• Run design and development processes based on live insights into customer needs and market opportunities. Manage flexible, high-performing, and easy-to-use configuration, formulation, and classification for product individualization.
• Achieve faster time to market through real-time project management, informed product decisions, and streamlined compliance.
• Analyze live performance of the project portfolio with predictive insights at any stage of the innovation process. Reuse of design/recipe, integrated development environment, seamless handover to manufacturing, and embedded compliance enable faster launches of new products.
• Reduce R&D expenses through informed product decisions, integration of formulation and design tools, and efficient supplier collaboration.
• Improve profitability by gaining insights into the cost of new products early and throughout the lifecycle.
• Calculate costs and other dimensions for new products in the early stage of the product lifecycle to quickly identify cost drivers and easily simulate and compare alternatives, leading to improved margins and reduced topline costs early on.
• Improved profitability for customer projects (such as Engineer-To-Order).
• Outline detailed control and forecast of project costs, including issue and change management.
• Reduce compliance costs and recalls through embedded compliance in R&D processes.

This course provides exercises to further enhance your knowledge of SAP S/4HANA Could Public Edition and its functionality and to experience the PLM processes first hand.

These exercises are available when you select the Hands-on Practice link at the beginning of this learning journey.

The exercises are based on test scripts for the various solution processes, which can be found online using the SAP Signavio Process Navigator. To access the SAP Signavio Process Navigator:

• Use the link: https://me.sap.com/processnavigator. You may need to log in or create an account if you have not already done so.
• Choose Solution Process
• You can now see a list of all available solution processes.

You can filter them with:

• Solution Scenarios: SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition
• Solution Scenario Version
• Capability: R&D Engineering (or sub-items)