Item: SAP Responsible Design and Production
Rating: 9
Author: Elisabet Braza Valle

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

González Byass S.A. has been helping protect the natural world since 1835. With more than 2,000 hectares of vineyards in Spain, Mexico, and Chile, the company takes its stewardship of the environment very seriously. Its “5+5” commitment, now evolved to "People+Planet", recognizes that the González family have cared for the land while steering the company to the 21st century, so too must the next generations continue that mission. SAP Responsible Design and Production would help it design products sustainably and comply with evolving circular-economy regulations in the European Union and beyond in one centralized solution.

Pros and Cons

The ability to connect the solution smoothly with González Byass’s SAP ERP application and other SAP software so the company can reuse existing business context, data, and structures.
SAP Responsible Design and Production gives us visibility of supplier materials in terms of both packaging and the auxiliary materials it incorporates in its offerings. It can structure this information intuitively and link it with the volume of units it puts on the market for each product. By centralizing our EPR data in SAP Responsible Design and Production, González Byass can speedily access information across its countries of operation, helping it make environmental product declarations for each country quickly and accurately
Users appreciate the solution’s interface, which allows them to report on this data intuitively and speedily.

On the subject of our Business, we need to have Ecovidrio (Ecoembes) declaration included in RDP, as soon as possible. It is urgent for us.
The features feed for uploading information to the RDP should be more streamlined and user friendly
I would also improve the data quality part, it doesn't really make it clear where the problem might lie.

Return on Investment

For now we have not calculated the ROI, but we are aware that it relieves the workload of the team that manages it. When more reports/declarations are included, we will have a higher return, especially with Ecovidrio.

Alternatives Considered

We evaluated products custom developed by other providers but what made us choose SAP RDP was that it had global reach and that it has a team behind it that works to continually improve it anywhere in the world.

Key Insights

Do you think SAP Responsible Design and Production delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with SAP Responsible Design and Production's feature set?

Yes

Did SAP Responsible Design and Production live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of SAP Responsible Design and Production go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy SAP Responsible Design and Production again?

Yes

Other Software Used

SAP Concur, SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation), SAP Signavio Process Transformation Suite

Likelihood to Recommend

Scenarios where a company needs to have a lot of visibility and control over the materials it uses for manufacturing, companies that are generators of polluting materials and companies that need to manage different EPRs in different countries. It is perhaps less useful for smaller companies whose sector is not related or involved in waste management and who do not have much volume or presence abroad. These may be able to cope with a customised development that contains their costs.

Obtain the declaration for the plastic tax
Track data quality

Likelihood to Renew

As declarations will be incorporated, we will be able to have the data of all of them in one place, which allows us to be agile and save time and costs.

González Byass’s journey with SAP RDP

Overall Satisfaction with SAP Responsible Design and Production