Product lifecycle
Connecting every aspect of product development
SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition enables your team to define, develop, deliver, and manage innovative and sustainable products.
Manage projects company-wide, optimize resources, and keep the portfolio on track – from forecasting and planning to accounting and closure
Develop compliant products and understand how changes impact costs, compliance, lead times, and more
Realize the benefits of a digital thread by connecting product development to the extended enterprise and eliminate data silos
Automate regulatory and sustainability requirements, track registrations, classify products, and manage hazardous materials properly with accurate labeling
Portfolio and project management
Comprehensive portfolio and project management – from defining to closing requests – through tight integration with finance and logistics information
Portfolio management
Submit project proposals, prioritize them with current projects, and monitor and review their progress.
Project management
Use capabilities that help identify critical paths, assign resources, track progress, control costs, and automate reporting.
Resource management
Avoid project bottlenecks by finding the right resources, checking their availability, and optimizing utilization.
Commercial project management
Increase profitability and achieve real-time transparency of customer projects.
Product development and change management
A single source of truth for product-development master data – facilitating the reuse of engineering data across the enterprise
Authoring tool integration
Integrate diverse design tools – for mechanical and electrical to electronic – to create a consistent product definition.
Design systems interoperability
Integrate third-party product lifecycle management (PLM) systems to streamline processes and drive better collaboration between engineering and the enterprise.
Change management
Run product change management processes so that only approved master data is released for production.
Variant management
Define variant models to support the configure, price, and quote requirements for omnichannel commerce.
Recipe development
The capabilities you need to digitize recipes and formulas, reuse information and ingredients, and run simulations and calculations in real time
Product recipes
Develop and manage recipes, while outlining production such as input, output, formulation, calculations, and packaging.
Recipe handover to manufacturing
Hand over the recipe to a manufacturing bill of material or a master recipe and synchronize the relevant data.
Change management
Run product change management processes in ways that release only approved master data for production.
Product compliance
Risk mitigation capabilities enabled by embedding compliance throughout the entire product lifecycle – from early design to sales and distribution
Product marketability and chemical compliance
Manage compliance data centrally, track volumes of regulated substances, and satisfy legal and customer requirements.
Safety data sheet and label management
Simplify component and classification by automating labeling and safety data sheets creation and integrating it with logistics tasks.
Dangerous goods management
Automate classification, creation, and provisioning of dangerous goods documents and integrate the tasks with shipment compliance checks.