Leveraging SAP for New Product development

Partha Tripathi

Need for New Product development

It is needed to satisfy new demands from consumer

Drive growth in business Increase profit margin

SAP business suite for New product Developmentis about

Doing Right Things and then doing Things Right

New product development building blocks

Portfolio management Project management Collaboration management Recipe Management Trial management

Portfolio Management

Identify opportunities

Monitor Portfolio

Initiate ProjectCreate and

approve budgetAnalyse risk and Rank Opportunity

Portfolio ManagementIdentify

opportunities

Monitor Portfolio

Initiate Project

Create and approve budget

Analyse risk and Rank

Opportunity

• Create Portfolio items as per organisation hierarchy/product lines• Plan high level mile stones related to items.• Perform high level financial planning and capacity planning for Opportunities

Portfolio ManagementIdentify

opportunities

Monitor Portfolio

Initiate Project

Create and approve budget

Analyse risk and Rank

Opportunity

• Use Questionnaire to analyse risk• Use Questionnaire to Rank items based on scoring models• Balance Portfolio of projects.

Portfolio ManagementIdentify

opportunities

Monitor Portfolio

Initiate ProjectCreate and

approve budget

Analyse risk and Rank

Opportunity

• Approve investment opportunities• Supports Workflow for approval.

Portfolio ManagementIdentify

opportunities

Monitor Portfolio

Initiate ProjectCreate and

approve budgetAnalyse risk and Rank Opportunity

• Project can be created directly from each items of portfolio after approval

Portfolio ManagementIdentify

opportunities

Monitor Portfolio

Initiate Project

Create and approve budget

Analyse risk and Rank

Opportunity

• Create Review• Reporting cockpit• Supports graphical charts.• Financial analysis• Receive Alerts related to risks, budget, schedule

Project Management

Structure Project

Plan resource requirement and cost

Monitor Project

Collect actualsProcure Material

and service

Project ManagementStructure Project

Plan resource requirement and cost

Monitor Project

Collect actualsProcure Material

and service

• Structure projects into WBS elements, networks, activities• Schedule activities• Determine critical path

Project ManagementStructure Project

Plan resource requirement and cost

Monitor Project

Collect actualsProcure Material and

service

• Plan Staffing requirement• Create roles for the project• Assign tasks• Create multi project assignment• Staff Search in the organisation• Adhoc cost estimation• Detailed cost through CO integration

Project ManagementStructure Project

Plan resource requirement and cost

Monitor Project

Collect actualsProcure Material

and service

• Procurement of materials and services through SRM directly from project management

Project Management

Structure ProjectPlan resource

requirement and cost

Monitor Project

Collect actualsProcure Material and

service

• Enter working time• Record material consumption• Post costs

Project ManagementStructure Project

Plan resource requirement and cost

Monitor Project

Collect actualsProcure Material and

service

• Project status reports enables summarization of project data created as PDF document• Can be stored in DMS or Project management

Collaboration Management

Product and process

development cell

vendor

customer

Machinery supplier

Different organisatio

n unit

Share document/Data

Share document/Data

Share document/Data

Share document/Data

Documents, Data can be shared independent of platform on need to know basis

Recipe Management

•It is repository of Product and process data

•Details of components and process can be entered

•Calculation of various parameters can be programmed in the recipe

•Cost associated with recipe can be calculated

•Approved recipe can be transformed into bill of material and master recipe

•Control recipes can be generated for interfacing with MES

•Can be converted into production version

•Recipes can be searched with respect to various properties

•Can be used to plan for Lab scale trial, pilot scale trial or plant scale trial

•Can be used to assess environmental/statutory compliance

•Documents such as work instructions, Guidelines can be attached to recipe

Trial Management

•Planned orders can be generated directly from recipe

•Sequence and progress of trial process can be viewed in cockpit

•Process parameter can be entered as per design requirement

•Different types of trial can be planned such as Lab scale trial, pilot scale trial or plant scale trial

Please contact at pt.partha.tripathi@gmail.com for any clarifications/questions and further details