Product Engineering

Best Practice Scenario: Product Engineering

The Product Engineering business scenario ensures that designs of your product (such as drawings, descriptions, 3D representations)  and the required materials can be managed in SAP Business ByDesign so that you can prepare the production of the product. This includes consistent maintenance of material master data, production bills of material (PBoMs) and other prerequisites for production. This is particularly relevant when your company has a focus on engineering with frequent changes of a product or a high rate of handovers from engineering to production.

• You can create product designs from scratch or import them into SAP Business ByDesign from your external engineering system. In SAP Business ByDesign you can maintain them in order to match production capabilities;
• When released, product designs can be handed over to production and a production bill of material is generated automatically;
• Materials can be assigned to product designs or to the associated production bill of material;
• Production models are generated from the production bill of materials, providing the basis for production.

Process Flow details Product Engineering

Roles involved to Product Engineering

• Product Engineer
• Production Manager

Business Value of Product Engineering

For midsize companies in manufacturing, this process streamlines relevant data flow from engineering to production. You can increase customer satisfaction by reducing lead time in engineering and reduce quality costs by automating the creation of the bill of materials.

SAP Business ByDesign helps efficiently manage CAD / TDM data import  and the adaption or creation of bills of material. Released designs can be handed over to production.

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[caption id="attachment_202137" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] De Business Flow van Product Engineering binnen SAP Business ByDesign[/caption]

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Key Benefits of Product Engineering

• Improve employee productivity in engineering by using automated functions to import design and create corresponding production bills of material
• Different versions can be created for each product design to help you keep an overview of the product’s evolution
• Product design can be adapted to the need and capabilities of production and then converted into a production bill of material

Application

• SAP Business ByDesign

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