R&D and Engineering

SAP Project and Portfolio Management Manage the full project lifecycle from a centralized source. Keep your portfolio on track from forecasting and planning to accounting and closure. Develop new products and services profitably by optimizing resources and speeding time to market. Tap into flexible support for your enterprise portfolio and project management (EPPM) processes and integrate financial and logistic information seamlessly. Gain real-time insights into project progress and cost performance across locations. Understand financial demand and capacity across the organization. Prioritize projects according to corporate strategies and business goals. Free up financial and human resources to help ensure successful project execution. Tie project management to financial and logistic processes at no additional cost. Create project reports for stakeholders and deciders with less effort. Manage projects, tasks, and timelines, while identifying critical paths, assigning resources, and tracking progress. Optimize resource utilization by finding the right resources, check availability, and avoid project bottlenecks.

SAP Product Lifecycle Costing Improve profits by managing costs accurately in the early design phase. With the SAP Product Lifecycle Costing solution, you can gain visibility across teams, proactively manage costs, and support new product innovations and customer-specific engineered products. Calculate and model various cost scenarios while designs are still evolving and master data is only partially available. Achieve leaner processes and accelerate research and development by enabling collaboration and reducing expenses. Support modern, real-time cost calculation using SAP HANA. Handle calculations flexibly with manual override and recalculation capabilities. Enable versioning, what-if simulation, and target costing. Access multiple costing sheets and component splits Manage local master data maintenance as well as integration with enterprise and Microsoft Excel software

SAP Commercial Project Management With the SAP Commercial Project Management application, you can achieve maximum efficiency and quickly adapt to changes to avoid unplanned costs. Help your teams plan, manage, and collaborate on projects. Provide highly flexible work spaces, consolidated data access across applications and systems, and a differentiating user experience. Streamline risk, issue, and change request management to reduce the percentage of unapproved changes. Access real-time project data using a single point of project visibility and control. Generate project status reports quickly using embedded analytics functionality. Improve estimating, planning, and forecasting accuracy, and plan for necessary personnel, materials, expenses, and third-party resources. Develop detailed baseline costs and revenue plans Manage and monitor change requests and their financial impact to ensure successful project completion and client satisfaction.

SAP Engineering Control Center With SAP Engineering Control Center, you can integrate business data from SAP software with design information from authoring systems for mechanical computer-aided design (MCAD) and electrical and electronic computer-aided design (ECAD) software and other simulation tools. Get a comprehensive overview of all required SAP information, including access to material master data and bills of material data. Leverage flexible, user-specific folder structures with drag and drop and copy and paste functionality. Apply robust and proven integration technology for technical authoring systems. Accommodate different CAD system requirements and data models. Enable comprehensive presentation of all product development information. Use extensive search capabilities, including classification-based, active list search, and advanced document searches with results displayed as previews or lists

SAP Intelligent Product Design SAP Intelligent Product Design enables fast, collaborative product development and lifecycle management. Work together in real time, sharing accurate PLM data across the extended enterprise. Bring product data together with customer requirements, helping ensure traceability. Create collaboration workspaces, invite internal and external participants to join, and use a built-in 3D viewer to facilitate sharing. Authorize stakeholders to collaborate using role-based rules. Upload documents directly from the document management system to a collaboration workspace. Detect issues and omissions early and reduce system defects.