ProductVision vs. SAP Integrated Product Development

PV is great for developing new formulations and moving them to production without exporting to other software. It helps track raw materials for both lab and manufacturing use. Background work is required to add new raw materials to make them available, but it is not overwhelming or difficult, just tedious sometimes

Incentivized

SAP PLM is well suited for any industry that needs to track the creation of a product from the raw material stage all the way to the shipped product. I do not think it would be well suited for very small companies which do not have any materials, products, and inventory to track.

Incentivized

• Raw material management
• Formula versioning
• formula comparison

Incentivized

• Provides lower-cost calculation
• This makes processes related to the product consistent, efficient, and simpler.
• It manages product development, support, and recycling projects effectively.
• It allows us to control the whole process.
• It allows us to see the future status of the products.

Incentivized

• A more intuitive interface would be helpful
• Easier formula copying for new prototypes
• More area for version descriptions

Incentivized

• In my opinion, the SAP Integrated Product Development Interfaces have room for improvement
• I think there is SAP Integrated Product Development room for improvement with low code developments

Incentivized

It makes it possible to move from lab to shop floor fast with accurate formulation tracking and versioning. The ability to cost out prototypes really helps when looing for material cost savings and formula optimization. It provides great theoretical properties to use in designed experiments generated by software such as Minitab.

Incentivized

SAP Integrated Product Development is easy to use and we decide the context ourself

Incentivized

Once implemented, it provides seamless integration between PLM and ERP systems.

Incentivized

ProductVision is more powerful and flexible, with the ability to calculate more theoretical properties and better search functions. PV integrates with other software systems better and is more compatible with software such as Excel and Minitab for functions such as statistical analysis and presentation preparation. Much more useful in general than BatchMaster.

Incentivized

SAP PLM encompasses SAP BW and SAP PRD. We tend to focus more on the SAP PRD portion as it directly involves more closely to production. We selected SAP PLM because it gives us a great visibility in the life cycle of materials, products and overall costs. SAP PLM compliments the other packages very well

Incentivized

• The ease of developing and tracking new prototypes has a positive effect.
• Raw material pricing helps optimize raw material costs for new formulas.
• Couples with ERP it is easy to realize cost savings for new formulas i.e $250 K per year for version 2 vs. version 1.

Incentivized

• Accurately able to order raw materials which are necessary for the current production run, thus reducing overhead.
• The negative impact would be the initial cost of the software and how long it would take to ROI that cost.
• It has allowed us to control batches of product creation much more closer and have the ability to cut some erroneous costs which were found in large batches.

Incentivized