SAP Responsible Design and Production

The main benefits of SAP Responsible Design and Production includes reducing industrial waste, ensuring timely delivery and decreasing the global carbon footprint and all of this is achieved through better packaging optimization which leads to product longevity and a better business model. Plus the reason I personally enjoyed using the SAP Responsible Design and Production app is for its versatile approaches, alerts, reminders and footprint tracking, giving an edge in EPR compliance.

We greatly benefited from it as it helped us redesign our packaging for cost and waste savings and gave us an edge in EPR compliance. Also it has alerts and reminders which made sure we had timely deliveries.

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.

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.

SAP Responsible Design and Production has saved us a lot of time and money by simplifying overall project management and helping us optimize our packaging to become more sustainable and environmentally friendly. And it has also helped us increase our productivity and better address all the compliances which again saved us a lot of time. Finally it integrates really well with other SAP products so it won't consume much time to configure if you're already using SAP products.

SAP Responsible Design and Production helps you better follow all the compliances and increases overall productivity and become more sustainable and environmentally friendly. So if you want save both time and money then you should start using SAP Responsible Design and Production.

One primary issues the product tackles is the need for businesses to decrease their environmental footprint. This encompasses aspects such as minimizing resource consumption, lowering emissions, and decreasing waste generation throughout the product lifecycle.

Consumer goods manufacuring like foods industry

SAP Responsible Design and Production is used primarily for Data Integration Challenges. It is used in our asset system to helps consolidate and manage data from disparate sources like CSV files and third-party systems. It provides the tools to bring this multi-sourced data together. On top of this we learn about our waste; henerating insights into waste generation rates and types across facilities to identify reduction opportunities for our assets. Finally it is also needed for our risk management.

It is well suited for our Customers who are particularly keen on reviewing the source of their Assets; Having the data integrated into one place so they can run analytics against it (to compare designs, vendors, locations etc.). This also allows them to run risk management reports which are a popular feature. It is less useful for our smaller customers where the number of assets does not warrant such tools and the time to integrate can be quite long.

As the governement enforcing strict regulations on reducing carbon footprint and asking for action on sustainability, we turn to technology and SAP Responsible Design and Production helping us achieving our sustainability goals. Our scope is to comply with ESG reporting to meet government regulations and this solution is a powerful tool to report performance on ESG.

It is best suited in below scenario:
1) ESG performance reporting for vendors
2) Achieving regulatory compliance and internal policies compliance
3) Tracking and reducing carbon footprints as per COP26
4) Helps business embracing sustainable business goals

It is less appropriate for mid size organisations because pricing is too high.

To collect and analyze environmental and social impact data, collaborate across departments, track material origin, ensure compliance, and continuously improve. This module addresses environmental impact reduction, social responsibility, compliance, meeting market demands, and operational efficiency, with the scope tailored to our organization's specific sustainability goals and industry requirements. This would be a game changer for us.

As an apparel company implementing SAP Responsible Design and Production to enhance sustainability. We could track the entire lifecycle of our products, ensuring ethically sourced materials, optimizing manufacturing processes, and reducing waste. Real-time data analysis helps meet sustainability targets and compliance with international standards, resulting in a positive brand image and increased customer loyalty.

We use SAP Responsible Design and Production alongside our S/4HANA infrastructure to monitor and manage the sustainability of our operations and whether our metrics leave us open to any additional taxes or fines. We have SAP Responsible Design and Production elements integrated to each of our machines as well as packaging, logistics, etc. operations. It's a pretty handy addon to S/4HANA to make sure everything's going as it should

We have certain limits of negative output we need to stay below during production to maintain a sustainable operation and avoid getting fines, and SAP Responsible Design and Production monitors these in real-time and lets us know when there are issues with these so we can check why that might be. It helps catch things like this before they become a problem

Manage plastic taxes regulation for clients

new product / still needs development and stronger understanding of roadmap

SAP Responsible Design and Production is good.. however it needs to cover global requirements.

Good