Assisting Companies Leverage Investments in SAP Solutions

Review How SAP StreamWork And SAP PLM Can Work Together To Support Engineering Collaboration

Eric Stajda, PLM Practice Directorwww.LeverX.com

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Assisting Companies Leverage Investments in SAP Solutions

Engineering and StreamWork

� Every Engineering team requires a central location where they can organize information, decisions, and key ac tivities

� Engineering teams have been extended to include ext ernal partners not in the same physical location or on th e same IT infrastructure

� It is key to include these external partners in pro cesses, decision, and to share information

� Engineering has a tremendous amount of data and decisions to manage and classify

� Specifications, Drawings, Engineering Changes, BOMs , Test Data, Regulatory Information/Certificates, Features , Functions, Usability Reports, Color Decisions, …

� StreamWork provides a central location where Engineering teams can work together in a collaborative environment supporting information generation and new product development processes

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Assisting Companies Leverage Investments in SAP Solutions

Engineering and StreamWork

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StreamWork Tool UsageAgendas Agenda for the next design review

Responsibility Matrix Who is responsible for what in the project

Timeline What is overall timeline for the product development cycle – e.g. when are prototypes due?

Discussion Create a discussion to collaborate on a specific feature of the productand how to improve it

Polls, Ranking, Pro/Con, Decisions Decide on features or on path to fixing a problem

Documents Share specifications, drawings, and other key items

Action Items Assign other to complete actions, e.g. assign a designer to complete update to specific drawings and post the results back

Mind Mapping Generate, visualize, structure, and classify ideas, and as an aid to studying and organizing information, solving problems, making decisions, and writing

Transfer SAP Data Transfer documents and other key engineering items from the backend SAP system to StreamWork to leverage controlled assets and master data (e.g. engineering change, materials, BOMs)

Assisting Companies Leverage Investments in SAP Solutions

Engineering and StreamWork

� Three reasons why SAP StreamWork is great leap forw ard

1. No infrastructure required

2. No adjustment of firewalls, proxies, etc.

3. Each partner can sign up on their own and be includ ed into the activities

� Different price plans, including free

� You do not need to purchase licenses for partners

� Benefits for Engineering

� Ensure a collective view where every voice is heard

� Discussions, feedback, information, analyses, and d ecisions are visible, so the team is committed to the outcome

� Decision making is faster and of higher quality

� User friendly and on demand, you can be productive i n minutes without a technology project

� Integration with SAP system to push and pull data

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