Product Definition

Best Practice Scenario: Product Definition

The Product Definition business scenario allows you to specify the product that you have sold to your customer and ensures that you build the product exactly as it was specified. This is particularly relevant when your company offers products that come in many variants or when it offers custom-built products described by detailed customer requirements. You can define possible product variants by product properties, product models and product specifications and reuse them.

• Product properties describe the features a product can have
• Product models describe the possible variations of a product
• Product specifications describe individual customer requirements or products variants. You can create product specifications within SAP Business ByDesign or import them from an external system
• Product Definition supports to streamline product portfolio and production, meet customer requirements in delivered product and to reduce Product Master management effort.

Process Flow details Product Definition

Roles involved to Product Definition

• Product Manager
• Product Engineer
• Sales Representative

Business Value of Product Definition

For midsize companies that want to increase engineering efficiency through reuse and variant management. You can increase customer satisfaction and lower costs by defining your products in terms of possible variants – the production process can be streamlined when variants are known in advance. The overall complexity of handling too many products is reduced.

SAP Business ByDesign helps efficiently manage the definition of product properties to describe all possible variants of a product. Sales is supported when specifying the product variant ordered by the customer.

[caption id="attachment_202124" align="alignnone" width="1024"] De Business Flow van Product Definition binnen SAP Business ByDesign[/caption]

Key Benefits of Product Definition

• Product Master Data can be managed centrally and de-centrally in all relevant aspects, such as sourcing, pricing, etc.
• Product features can be formalized through Product Properties, given by their unit of measure.
• All possible variants of a product can be described by the Product Model. A Product Model combines Product Properties and possible values for that product. Product Models reduce the complexity of handling many variants of the same.
• Product Specifications specify the product variant, either in a non-formal way by attached document or notes, or by values assigned to properties in case the product is a configurable one. The product specification is available in the subsequent production and delivery process steps.
• A Product Specification can be included in a Sales Order, or it can be created at the same time the Sales Order is created.

Application

• SAP Business ByDesign

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