SAP Teamcenter by Siemens Partnership

Editor's Notes

• #4 Reduce redundancies, eliminate overlapping processes, and turn serial processes into concurrent ones to Design products with real-time supply chain considerations to eliminate the typical lag to manufacturing. Create an ethically and environmentally responsible product development process that is driven by sustainability analytics Create a single digital thread of common data that is shared across all manufacturing relevant entities
• #7 Siemens & SAP Partnership  SAP and Siemens strategic partnership in the area of Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management will allow companies to combine Siemens’ strength in planning and managing PLM programs with SAP’s deep integration of enterprise project management capabilities into ERP functions. The integration scenarios enable manufacturing companies to plan, execute and monitor  design, development and construction projects which are truly linked with engineering information and digital twin objects. Customer Challenges Project driven R&D organizations have to deal with stand alone project management solution which are decoupled from their ERP processes as integration is rarely provided as a standard solution capability Insufficient visibility into the progress of the project or inconsistent information about actual project costs, budget consumption or confirmed work cause a lot of manual effort when creating project reports for stakeholder and customers decision making in such an environment is very challenging for customers if they lack of insights into the overall project demand, resource capacity or available financial budget  The consequence is that a project will fail to meet expected outcomes and timelines and with that will cause significant financial risk for the company  The Solution – Integrated Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management  SAP and Siemens will seamlessly integrate the Engineering Activities managed in Team Center into the overall Portfolio and Program planning resifing in SAP Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management. This integration will allow to control, monitor and measure the entire innovation  process from the very first new product idea to portfolio investment decision and to the execution of the necessary engineering work in Siemens team center. The bi directional integration scenario will allow to feed back scheduling , status and progress information into SAP' Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management , which enables the portfolio manager to monitor the performance of projects in real time without the nead to manually consolidtae the information from various decoupled resources 
• #8 Siemens & SAP Partnership SAP and Siemens are known for excellence in area of instituting engineering excellence and enabling enterprise grade product development. The combined solution portfolio in the area of Model Based System Engineering builds the most comprehensive solution and a well-orchestrated path for the product engineering & manufacturers across discrete industries . Customer Challenges Reduced time to market, increasing product complexity and increasing product variations necessitates product manufacturers to efficiently manage value chain across product lifecycle. Companies must orchestrate integrated engineering and development of complex products involving systems with increasing levels of electrical, electronics, and software. They need to make business decisions involving financials models in combination with engineering models that accurately predict real world tradeoffs and results. The Solution – Model Based Systems Engineering Effectively incorporate the experience data related to products & its users and consolidate the true voice of customer into product requirements and development processes Translate product requirements into multi-disciplinary digital models for further synthesis, simulation and optimization Efficiently manage the complexity of multi-disciplinary product definition across Mechanical, Electrical, Electronics and Software disciplines Reduced latency between engineering and business enabling them to accomplish MBSE and aspire for realizing model-based enterprise vision True Digital thread for the entire product lifecycle by combining design, engineering, product definition with the business data Systems Modeling Define and manage system models that are relevant at engineering and enterprise levels Drive transparency into enterprise business data and enable relevant trade studies and optimizations by combining engineering and business data Translate high level product requirements into multi-disciplinary digital models to drive simulation and optimization in development of detail digital designs in mechanical, electrical/electronic & Software disciplines Accomplish Model Based Systems Engineering approach by verifying and validating the product performances against its requirements with reduced latency between engineering & business
• #9 VALUE OF THE PARTNERSHIP The partnership delivers a best-in-class product configuration experience throughout the extended enterprise. Customers can use Teamcenter Configurator to author "Product variability" and use it downstream for Manufacturing, Production and Sales. CHALLENGES 1.Companies today are facing high pressure to reduce the time from ideation phase to product design. Without a proper management of product features , their re-use information, their relation to other features is often slow and requires multiple iterations between product planning and engineering departments.  2.Cost situation of a product will be driven by a proper feature based planning and can be much easier be influenced in the early phase of development. Cost-Intensive combinations drive the product cost up, without proper knowledge about how important they are, and if they could even get excluded or avoided. 3.Many Product Producers own 3-4 Configurators per product, one for Design, one for Manufacturing, one for Sales, or after Sales. These dis-connected Configurators cause a delay in getting changes into the market, do not allow to use digital content in downstream manufacturing for high variable product, and even allow combinations to be sold which cause conflicts. KEY INTEGRATION VALUE POINTS Plan Variability: The Key benefits are the definition of reuse early in the process, to meet the later cost position of the product in the market. Design and Manufacturing: Engineering validation based on a digital twin of the product helps to find problem areas in the configuration and can be removed by writing rules and constraints which will dis-allow selling these features combinations. Production Execution: Adding, removing or changing a sell-able Product Feature is a key process in Product maintenance. The Integration between Teamcenter Configurator and SAP Advanced Variant Configurator will allow to connect the change cycles in PLM with ERP. Sales Integration with Configure Price Quote (CPQ): By connecting eCommerce processes directly with the Configuration Knowledge from PLM allows fast and accurate updates, make sure only viable products getting sold, and allow digital content like a 3D-model to be used very early in the sales process. BENEFITS 1. Planning of re-use of Features and concepts from an earlier product, from a similar product can lower time to market and reduce cost in a planned manner. This should happen during the system engineering phase, where configurator features are a valuable outcome. 2. By validation of buildable combinations of a product in the digital engineering phase, errors and quality problems can be reduced in the physical phase in manufacturing. Configurator can help to validate a large number of combinations without requiring engineers to build these BOM structures individually. They will be generated by the configurator. 3. Introducing a change into a Product often start by defining the effected "Product Feature", the Condition under which the new Features is used and allowed, and the effect to the Product data. By validating a change thru Engineers, Adopting the Change by Manufacturing Engineers, the Change can be published to Sales in a integrated coordinated manner.
• #10 Siemens & SAP Partnership SAP Siemens Supplier collaboration provides comprehensive & integrated environment for collaboration to drive efficiency and performance across the product lifecycle by bringing together design/engineering design data, business data and partners. . Customer Challenges All enterprises in design and manufacturing industries are under high pressure when it comes to reduce time to market and manage the rise in complexity and variability of products. They need to engage with diverse and global supplier ecosystems at different phases of product development. Informed decision making with insights that combine engineering and business data becomes critical to accelerate the market introduction of products. The Solution – Collaboration Siemens collaboration solution is well-suited to the needs of their target users in design and engineering. They support with the best in class capabilities for sharing design/engineering information in pre/post contract scenarios. SAP provides the most comprehensive end-to-end solution to manage the collaboration along the entire lifecycle of product. SAP & Siemens are keen to further drive synergies from this partnership. They are keen to deliver a mutually agreed upon and validated collaboration solution. The customers should look forward, to having a well-orchestrated end-to-end support with a best in class environment for their entire needs of collaboration.    Collaboration across Product lifecycle Effectively manage the complete spectrum of collaboration from early design pre-contract collaboration to post contract design collaborations Well orchestrated workflows and access controls to onboard the relevant stakeholders along stages of collaboration Instant Collaboration on Product data Collaboration on unstructured data & structured data incl BoMs, XCAD designs, engineering models along the value chain Collaboration with embedded 3D Viewer & redlining capabilities to support better decision making with business partners along the value chain Comprehensive Process support Seamlessly collaborate with the suppliers right through early design to procurement for scale processes. Enabling decision making by combining design data & business data across business process and business partners 
• #11 Siemens & SAP Partnership The partnership delivers a best-in-class visual user experience to the extended enterprise.  Designers and engineers can work with familiar engineering visualization tools; business and operations users can leverage a 3D visual index to business data, training, operations and service procedures, all being assured that product data integrity and change management is maintained across all interfaces. Customer Challenges All enterprises in manufacturing industries are under pressure to deliver products and services faster, better and cheaper. Friction and information loss at critical interfaces. Visualization and mockup for Multi-CAD engineering data Mockup and visualization of large scale product configurations Communicating documented engineering information to suppliers, while managing company IP After market documentation based on information directly from engineering Disconnected engineering and enterprise change management Reuse of Engineering data downstream in the extended enterprise. The Solution - Visual Data Integration SAP and Siemens will seamlessly integrate Teamcenter and Teamcenter Visualization with S/4HANA and SAP 3D Visual Enterprise solutions and take their combined portfolio to market. This simplifies our customers integration challenges and enables out-of-box enterprise business processes.    In addition, this partnership opens opportunities to deliver rapid business value in new opportunities.  An example is interactive 2D/3D spare parts ordering in SAP’s Commerce Cloud.  Siemens and SAP plan to deliver the visual data interface in Q3 of 2020, and a solution for Design to Spares and Service as a joint product offering in Q1 2021, with further enhancements to the Visual Digital Thread throughout the following quarters.
• #13 Siemens and SAP are still in the early phases of defining the plans for the future common integration between Teamcenter and S/4HANA.  There is a common intent to build this new integration out into something that we call Next Generation Integration, with capabilities exceeding currently available offerings. This intent is yet to be formalized and to be converted into a commitment with roadmap and timeline, which should happen over the next couple of months.   Both companies plan to release an integration product to be offered by both parties in the near future as a first step. This new product will initially not provide the full functional coverage of existing integration products but will serve as the foundation for the future.   With that in mind, Siemens will absolutely continue supporting T4S for the foreseeable future to serve customers who need a richer feature set for the integration today, and intend to offer migration plans when the time is right to move our T4S customers to Next Generation Integration.   For any customer project, it should be carefully assessed what the specific requirements towards the integration are and when those need to be available, comparing the deployment timeline derived from those requirements with the integration product capability sets published in available documentation and product roadmaps, to arrive at a well founded decision which product to use for the specific project.   This method is in line with the joint Siemens & SAP approach to put the customer first and let the customer benefit drive the decision on which integration product to offer and deploy. The individual assessment and therefore the product to be deployed initially will vary by customer but the end point will be the same for all. Today’s state of integration: Information silos across disciplines prevent effective collaboration and reuse of data. Workers can only access information for their own domains, related information from other domains is difficult or impossible to access if it is stored in a system different from their main environment. Current integration capabilities provide some support but not sufficient to allow pervasive access. Representations of related data in different systems diverge so much that this situation cannot simply be fixed by improving just the integration itself – needs to be viewed as an system of systems Teamcenter IntegrationS4/HANA Manual & disconnected business processes slow the exchange of information and increase errors preventing reuse of critical data which could be used to improve decision making Lessons lost lacking real world performance. Without an IoT feedback loop from the operational assets, companies miss out on opportunities to learn lessons and improve performance – our integrations today do not support this Next Gen Vision: to-be state of integration Harmonize data representations (domain model) across the Siemens and SAP domains in Teamcenter and SAP S/4HANA   LCS and SAP investment required (technical guidance from Integration) Align the meaning and semantics of the shared business objects in Teamcenter and SAP S/4HANA Extend the Teamcenter data model to cover ERP relevant aspects OOTB for persistent information, such as plant specific product information, alignment of effectivity model, etc. Define a virtual data model that combines the engineering view and operations view as a foundation for seamless integration based on transient data, such as cost, stock, sales view, etc. Transform a design/engineering structure to represent a product structure that is representing a fixed structure in the harmonized domain model for consumption by operations Replace explicit data transfer with data federation concepts across the entire landscape which needs to be implemented  Integration investment required Conceptualize design usage scenarios that showcase and make best use of future harmonized capabilities across the Siemens and SAP domains  LCS, SAP and integration investment required