SAP Enterprise Product Development is a cloud-based solution designed to accelerate and streamline product development processes across the enterprise. By integrating engineering, design, manufacturing, and supply chain teams through real-time collaboration, SAP EPD enables faster innovation and improved product quality. Its seamless integration with SAP S/4HANA ensures end-to-end visibility throughout the product lifecycle, facilitating efficient decision-making and reducing time to market. Key Features and Functionality: - Collaboration: Facilitates requirements-driven engineering partnerships, document sharing, 3D visual design, and structured product data collaboration, including supplier engagement and product change management. - Engineering: Supports capturing and managing requirements, functional structures, impact analysis, test planning and execution, and management of test artifacts and results. - Visualization: Offers a simplified user experience for importing, browsing, and sharing 2D/3D visual data, integrating visual data, authoring and editing visualizations, and utilizing role-based templates for visual applications. - Product Structure Management: Enables early definition of product structures during the design phase, comparison of product structures, support for digital thread with unique instance identification, and integration with SAP S/4HANA Cloud. - Intelligent Handover: Provides routing features for allocating existing materials to additional routings from SAP S/4HANA, along with user guidance to ensure correct material allocation. Primary Value and Problem Solving: SAP EPD addresses the challenges of disconnected product development processes by providing a unified platform that enhances collaboration, ensures data consistency, and accelerates innovation. By digitalizing product development from design to operation, it reduces time to market, increases R&D return on investment, and ensures reliable product launches. The solution's integration capabilities with SAP S/4HANA and other enterprise systems create a seamless digital thread, offering full traceability and transparency throughout the product lifecycle.