Product Development

Best Practice Scenario: Product Development

 

The Product Development scenario provides you with comprehensive functions to develop new products or to significantly improve the quality of products and processes. Inspired by the Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) framework, it covers all important stages from the definition of a product development project to the approval of mass production (and project closure). It covers the planning of a product development project, the engineering and prototyping of a product, the definition of the production process and sample master data, as well as the production of samples and the validation of the production process by continuous improvement.

It is a project.structured scenario that includes tools and techniques of Total Quality Management to achieve strategic business results, such as reducing field failure risks, product returns and warranty costs, and ensuring higher customer satisfaction.

Process Flow details Product Development

Roles involved to Product Development

• Product Manager
• Product Engineer
• Quality Planner
• Buyer
• Production Planner
• Inspector

Business Value of Product Development

This scenario provides a way to systematically manage the development design, quality, and inspection requirements through all steps from design through prototype to test validation and full introduction. By structuring and following a plan, the product is more likely to meet quality standards, reduce expensive change orders and re-specification delays, accelerate the product introduction, and reduce risk to the company.

This scenario of Product Development solves the need for a controlled process for product introduction that will be made either in-house or by a 3rd party.

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[caption id="attachment_202131" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] De Business Flow van Product Development binnen SAP Business ByDesign[/caption]

 

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Key Benefits of Product Development

With its functionality in Project Management, Supply Chain Management, Engineering and Procurement, SAP Business ByDesign®  contributes  by

• Providing a consistent process and plan for product introduction and change
• Enabling stakeholders to collaborate and understand their roles, responsibilities, time lines, processes with an audit trail, and reporting on progress
• Providing transparency and visibility of the whole process and tracking progress and decisions
• Providing a single tool where all relevant data is in the system for re-use in the mass production process avoiding silos outside of the main system
• All decisions documented and all deliverables stored in a central place
• Cost control of all activities or purchases for the product under development

 

Application

• SAP Business ByDesign

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