The initial situation
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is becoming increasingly important for companies in the process industry.
Innovative products have always been at the heart of successful companies. By introducing new product variants or completely new, innovative products more quickly, new market shares can be gained or existing market shares secured in the face of global competition.
Due to ever shorter product life cycles, more and more products have to be developed in an ever shorter time. Innovation productivity is therefore also becoming increasingly important. This diversity and new, stricter legal requirements (e.g. REACH) are increasing complexity in companies.
The task
In many companies, the development departments are organized decentrally. The necessary information is stored in Access solutions or other department-internal special solutions and is therefore not available company-wide. The aim must be to ensure that consistent information from product development is shared by all relevant departments worldwide.
The solution
conarum offers you a fully integrated PLM solution with SAP recipe development. Companies in the process industry can organize their product development processes worldwide in a uniform, transparent and faster way. Business-critical factors are optimized and thus have a lasting impact on business success.
conarum supports you in conceptualization, integration and implementation and offers you the following advantages:
Time to market
SAP recipe development offers a common and consistent view of all relevant information for all business areas involved in product development. This shortens the time required to develop new products and simultaneously increases the quality of the development processes.
Reduction of development costs
Recipe development of formula-based products is greatly simplified by standardized access to all data related to the definition of materials, products, equipment requirements and manufacturing processes. Automated calculations across multiple recipe stages enable the fast and accurate determination of all ingredients used to produce the primary yield in terms of their logistical and chemical-technical values. In addition, the system determines the costs from the prices of the materials or specifications assigned to the input and yield components.
The results of the calculations can in turn be transferred to the specification of the primary yield or a yield intermediate.
In detail, you can transfer the following calculation results to the specification of the primary yield:
- List of ingredients
- Standard composition
- Qualitative composition
- Quantitative composition
- Costs (logistical calculation)
Compliance and quality
The integration between SAP recipe development, the specification data from SAP EH & S and production execution ensures that quality, compliance and labeling processes always match the product data created and managed by research and development.
Control of the product development process
A consistent status concept controls the processing options during development and ensures that only approved recipes are transferred to production. Modifications to specifications, formulas and recipes are recorded via an integrated change management system and released via corresponding approval processes.
Centralized view of all product data worldwide
All parties involved receive a uniform view of product-relevant data. Nevertheless, different regional framework conditions, e.g. due to different legislation, can also be taken into account. This ensures proper handling with regard to the labeling requirements for controlled substances. As a result, multi-level recipe hierarchies from global, company-wide to country- and production-specific recipes can be mapped in line with the ISA 88 standard.
Collaboration with providers and suppliers
The technical implementation of SAP recipe development enables collaboration scenarios via the Internet with providers and suppliers. The protection of business-critical information is ensured by a comprehensive concept for access authorizations (SAP ACM).
Specification management
In recipe development, you use specifications to describe substances or packaging and their chemical and physical properties. SAP recipe development uses the SAP EH & S specification database as the basis for this technical product data. This integration enables synergy effects through simple recording and management of the diverse and complex technical product information that is generated during product development.
Our expertise
Our holistic view of PLM processes beyond the pure SAP functionalities enables the development of an optimal solution in organizational and operational processes and the integration into existing system landscapes.
- Many years of experience in SAP PLM
- relevant in this context: SAP PLM 7.0, SAP PLM 7.0 ACM, SAP recipe development, SAP EH & S
- Conception, customizing and programming enhancements of SAP PLM functions
Documents for download
PLM – shorten time-to-market through a consistent view of all relevant information