Early time to market of new products and services, based on value-driven investment decisions leads to market share gains. Align product development, manage production costs, and coordinate resources across entire lifecycle from sales, supplier sourcing, service
The R&D/Engineering module van S/4HANA consists of the following components:
  • Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management
  • Product Compliance
  • Product Engineering
  • Product Lifecycle Management
  • Project Control

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Articles in S/4 HANA R&D/Engineering Scope Items

Advanced Ingredient Replacement for Recipes (22R)
This scope item supports finding recipes based on header attributes and...
Assess Dangerous Goods for a Product (3FC)
For chemical products, you determine if a product can be transported via certain...
Assess Marketability of a Product (31H)
For a certain country and business process, the result of the marketability...
Basic Handover of Bill of Material (1ZI)
Handover to Manufacturing allows the user to create a Manufacturing Bill of...
Chemical Compliance Approval for Purchased Material and Supplier (31G)
This scope item manages the compliance assessment for fulfillment of purchased...
Embedded Software Management (2G6)
Embedded Software Management enables the Systems Engineer to manage software...
Engineering Bill of Material - Change Master Management (1R3)
This scope item covers two central PLM BOM processes: setup and release steps...
Engineering Bill of Material - Mass Change (1R5)
This scope item covers the follow-up material and component date...
Engineering Bill of Material - Versions Management (1NR)
An engineering bill of material (EBOM) is a type of bill of material (BOM) that...
Engineering Change Management with Change Records (1NF)
SAP Engineering Change Management with Change Records flexibly supports the...
Formulation - Recipe Development (1QC)
This scope item provides Web applications to handle formulas. Formula...
Handover of Product Information to SAP Asset Intelligence Network (2WK)
This business process enables a fast creation of the SAP Asset Intelligence...
Make-to-Order Production with Variant Configuration (1YT)
This scope item shows a Make-to-Order Production scenario using the Advanced...
Make-to-Stock Production with Variant Configuration (21D)
This scope item shows the Make-to-Stock Production with Variant Configuration in...
Manage Documents (22P)
During the product engineering phase, new products are designed and developed....
Manage Safety Data Sheets for Products (3VR)
Placing chemical products on the market requires an efficient system support for...
Procurement of Materials with Variant Configuration (2XU)
Variant configuration is an important tool in the manufacturing process. Improve...
Product Structure Management (3ND)
This scope item supports the setup of products or product families with many...
Product Structure Template Management (35Q)
This scope item supports the setup of templates for products or product families...
Recipe Handover to Production - Bill of Material (1QG)
You can use this business process to create and update a bill of material using...
Requirements Driven Development (2G4)
With Requirements Driven Development, you can link requirements and block...
Setup Configurable Model using Variant Configuration (22T)
Improve your company's product engineering, sales, and manufacturing performance...
Software Compatibility Management (2G5)
Software Compatibility Management enables the Systems Engineer to define the...
Specification Management for Recipes (1QA)
Within the recipe development functionality, specification management provides...
Substance Volume Tracking (4OL)
With this scope item, you can enable substance volume tracking of confirmed...
Supplier Compliance in the Value Chain (5OJ)
With this scope item, a check is performed in purchasing documents that...