SAP Integrated Product Development

Connect product creation to Core SAP Processes customer focus and Business Success

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SAP Integrated Product Development puts your business in the fast lane – with accelerated market rollout, greater innovation potential and lower costs.

Fully integrated with SAP S/4HANA, this SaaS solution enables seamless collaboration to manage product data and requirements transparently across the entire product lifecycle. With SAP IPD, you digitally enhance your value-adding product creation processes straight from SAP.

Benefits

How does the SaaS solution SAP Integrated Product Development benefit you?

Digitally integrated

Vertical and horizontal processes linked to create a Connected Enterprise

Productive and efficient

Visual support, e.g. 3D previews, promote understanding and collaboration

Informed and transparent

Assured maximum data quality and currency

Traceable

Digital thread from concept to requirements to digital product

Future-proof

Business processes run on SAP BTP, the groundbreaking SAP cloud platform

Always up to date

Continual updates and addition of new functions thanks to cloud operation

Intelligent

Supported by the AI agent SAP Joule

Impact

What can SAP Integrated Product Development do for your business?

SAP Integrated Product Development creates a digital control center for your entire product creation process that benefits all stakeholders. End-to-end business processes foster collaboration and ensure maximum transparency.

All participants receive optimal support for their tasks, from the initial idea to R&D, work preparation and production through to rollout, marketing and sales.

As a SaaS solution and with per-user licensing, SAP IPD can be precisely customized to meet the changing needs of your business. It improves methods and processes throughout your product lifecycle management scheme:

Innovation management: from innovation campaigns to early-stage simulation based on requirements definition
Requirements management: traceable management of requirements, including substitutions and links to product data
System modelling: support for model-based methods throughout the entire product development process
Specifications management: a single source of data e.g. for compliance statements or product composition (process industry)
Configuration management: clearly defined baselines and configuration plans as well as definable and controllable lifecycle phases
Bill of materials management: visually supported MBOM management for list generation and task scheduling
Co-creation: secure sharing of documents and business objects with customers and partners

Technical Highlights:

AI support by SAP Joule
SaaS solution runs on the new SAP BTP cloud platform
Highly scalable

Use cases

Typical SAP IPD use cases that we can showcase

Product data management in discrete manufacturing

Managing product data across locations and systems is time-consuming and and costly, especially when using multiple CAD authoring systems. Additionally, asynchronous data exchange often leads to errors and a lack of transparency in variant management and releases.

SAP Integrated Product Development resolves these issues by standardizing product data management for material masters, BOMs as well as documents, requirements, ideas, etc. The generation and communication of baselines to customers and suppliers remains transparent and traceable at all times.

Benefits

Enables synchronous work on data models
Check-in/check-out provides direct, access-protected and version-controlled information
Lucid representation of all relevant product information
Product data management in SAP and CAD authoring systems is possible without recourse to third-party products
Visual support e.g. via Sys-ML diagrams and 3D visualization

Product data management in the process and food industry

Collaborative ingredient and recipe management is often hampered by business unit silos and distributed locations. Asynchronous data and processes reduce productivity and risk noncompliance with regulations.

SAP Integrated Product Development resolves these issues by providing an end-to-end information flow that ensures not just compliance but also sustainability. All business units and locations work with identical product data.

Benefits

Faster response to market developments
Constant availability of meaningful KPIs
New potential for added value and time to market
Transparent management of raw materials, recipes, packaging, etc.
Easy access to regulatory requirements and provisions

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Why CENIT

Why CENIT is the perfect partner for your company in SAP IPD

Technology leader

We are a development partner of the SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP)

Innovative and reliable

With our proprietary applications, including products for SAP BTP, we continually improve the way you manage your business processes.

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Customers from a wide variety of industries rely on our SAP experts to make their business processes more successful.

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