Logistics

Product Lifecycle Management

Lesson Overview In this lesson you will receive an overview of

mySAP Product Lifecycle Management.

Lesson Objectives After completing this lesson, you will be able

to:– Outline the tasks associated with processes supp

orting sales order management, production, procurement, and product lifecycle management

– Explain how mySAP ERP and mySAP PLM support the key processes in product lifecycle management

Business Example As a fast growing global company, IDES mus

t respond quickly to market and customer demands within a heterogeneous corporate system landscape.

Intracompany mapping allows management to track changes within process departments.

Product Lifecycle Management Product Lifecycle Management, or PLM, has

become a catchphrase. It is nevertheless a useful term to indicate tha

t the concept of areas and single systems needs to be replaced by that of processes.

Nowadays, the life cycle of a product - from product development, procurement, and production through to service - is characterized by strong intracompany divisions and a heterogeneous system landscape.

Processes end artificially at system and departmental limits.

A good example of this is the change process in construction.

Traditional product data management systems merely map the change process in the construction department.

During production processes, there is no support that enables construction changes to be introduced.

The aim of mySAP PLM is to support the entire product life cycle.

Starting in product development, the product data that is amassed is used for all subsequent processes.

This enables other areas, such as mySAP Supply Chain Management, to benefit from the data.

According to this principle, an integrated product development process goes far beyond the current methods used in product development.

The development of mySAP Business Suite enables customers and vendors to be equally involved in the extended process chains of product development.

The name Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) does justice to this approach.

mySAP PLM supports your company in product development, the maintenance of assets, and service processing for your products.

For your company to be successful, it has to offer the right products at the right time and at the right prices.

mySAP PLM enables you to do just this.

The right products are those that meet your customers' needs.

To find out what these needs are, you need to engage in a discussion process with your customers right from the start of development.

During this process, both partners need to have access to the same documents.

The product has to reach the market or be handed over to the customer at the right time.

Delays increase costs and decrease your competitive ability.

However, it is not only delays that lead to increased costs; changes made to products once they have been developed are also expensive.

Early discussion with customers and the involvement of vendors and development partners at an early state can help keep down the cost of changes.

Costs can often be reduced for service processing through preventative maintenance.

When running assets, processing services, and developing products, the early involvement of customers and subcontractors reduces your costs and increases profitability.

mySAP PLM brings together a number of benefits that help your company keep ahead of the competition.

You can reduce costs through measures such as effective cost control in projects or by minimizing the maintenance costs of a piece of equipment.

PLM also enables you to increase productivity; for example, by pooling information and sharing it with your partners and customers.

You can also achieve higher productivity by quickly introducing new products to the market.

One competitive advantage that should not be underestimated is the significance of customer satisfaction; involving your customers early on in the development process enables you to tailor your products to the needs of both customers and the marketplace.

Finally, mySAP PLM has the advantage of being an integrated solution: product development, quality management, asset management, maintenance, and service management are all integrated and the life cycle is mapped in its entirety.

mySAP Product Lifecycle Management offers all the functionality you need for integrated product and asset management.

Features and functions include:

Program and Project Management Provides advanced capabilities to plan, mana

ge, and control the complete product development process.

Life-Cycle Data Management Provides an environment for managing specif

ications, bills of materials, routing and resource data, project structures, and related technical documentation throughout the product life cycle.

Life-Cycle Collaboration Supports collaborative engineering and proje

ct management, employing XML-based Web standards to communicate information such as project plans, documents, and product structures across virtual development teams.

Quality Management Provides integrated quality management for

all industries throughout the entire product life cycle.

Enterprise Asset Management Manages physical assets and equipment, co

vering all components of an enterprise asset management system.

Environment, Health and Safety Provides a solution for environment, health, a

nd safety issues by enhancing business processes to comply with government regulations.

mySAP PLM is a complete solution. It covers the entire life cycle from the point of view of

both product providers and asset managers. mySAP PLM is aimed at providers of complete soluti

ons who develop a product for a specific customer, manufacture and deliver this product to the customer, and then provide service activities for the customer once the product is live.

Products that would benefit from service offers would be, for example, construction machinery, turbines, or even a water treatment plant.

For example, you produce a bulldozer, modify it to meet the customer's requirements (so that it can be used in Alaska instead of California), and deliver it to the customer.

You then draw up a maintenance contract with the customer to carry out regular inspections of the bulldozer.

Program and Project Management

Successful project management means planning, controlling, and executing the essential project elements in accordance with the aims of the project.

In this respect, professional project management is one of the most important factors in determining the competitiveness of a company.

Successful project management relies on determining all processes necessary for the project and the ability to represent these in the form of a structure and process.

The Project System makes available basic data, standard structures, and templates that assist in the creation of plans for different projects.

A well structured project and clearly defined project aims form the basis for successful planning, monitoring, and control of the project.

Depending on the project type and the aim of project monitoring, the project is structured in the project system either by using the project structure plan (PSP) and/or operations that can be linked to a network plan through relationships.

The project structure plan represents the organizational structure of the project and describes it from the point of view of phases, functions, or the product.

The tasks to be completed are arranged hierarchically in a project structure plan that divides the project into manageable sections.

The individual elements of the project structure plans are called PSP elements.

These can contain further subdivisions, depending on the project phase.

The planning of the actual process takes place in network planning.

The network plan describes the project flow. The fundamental elements that make up the

network plan are operations and relationships.

The network plans and associated operations form the basis for planning, analyzing and monitoring deadlines, costs, and resources, and for the workforce, capacities, materials, aids, and services needed for the different tasks in project execution.

Project time monitoring takes place in the Project System using the options available under scheduling and schedule planning.

The Project Planning Board provides a graphical interface for planning and controlling projects efficiently.

You can use the project planning board to create, edit, and analyze data for your project (primarily regarding schedules).

The combination of tabular data and graphical representation means that you have a comprehensive overview of the project at all times.

The project planning board can be used to:– . Plan, check, and change schedules– . Plan, schedule, and check resources– . Determine and assign work– . Compare capacities– . Calculate costs

The central element of the project planning board is the Gantt chart.

This consists of a tabular and graphical area and shows both the hierarchical structure of the project and the corresponding scheduling situation.

You carry out work on the project in the Gantt chart.

In addition to the PSP elements and operations, you can display or hide additional views such as the capacity overview or cost overview.

Successful project management is based to a large extent on the close monitoring of all project processes.

Costs, resources, and schedules have to be monitored closely so that you can identify any deviation from the project plan at an early stage.

It is only possible to make exact statements about the project progress, current status, and further development if all parameters are represented along with their significance and are compared to the activities that have already taken place.

The Project System enables effective planning, execution, and monitoring of the project progress.

The program and project management key functional area of mySAP PLM offers reports for this.

cProjects In today's world, companies need powerful s

olutions that allow them to employ sophisticated project management methods that drive speed and quality.

They also need easy-to-use and easy-to-implement tools that allow employees to work together to innovate, share knowledge, and track progress.

What they don't need, however; is the traditional stand-alone project management .point solution - which tends to lead to islands of information and extensive integration efforts.

In short, companies need a different approach: one that lets them manage projects more effectively today, without limiting their options for tomorrow.

To help companies address those challenges, SAP offers SAP Collaborative Project Management.

With SAP Collaborative Project Management, you can handle the entire range of project activities, from concept and planning through execution and the closing of a project, covering all project types, from development to service projects.

Additionally, it enables companies to comply with industry standards by implementing project methodologies such as advanced product quality planning (APQP).

Collaborative Project Management, realized by cProjects, includes the management of templates, teams, phases, quality gates/milestones, tasks, scheduling, interactive Gantt chart, checklists, documents, object links, confirmation approval and digital signature, and a control plan.

In addition, it supports multi-project management, the integration of Microsoft Project (export and import), the creation of project snapshots and simulation versions, the assignment of substitutes for tasks, and many more.

cProjects uses cFolders to offer tightly integrated scenarios to jointly work on documents and tasks with external partners.

Life-Cycle Data Management Life-Cycle Data Management is process engineering

and logistics data within a company and across company boundaries.

The management and changing of product and project data dictates the most important day-to-day tasks.

Every day, designers, work schedulers, and project managers need a sound basis for making decisions.

Do they have immediate access to up-to-date and relevant information?

It isn't easy - the volume and range of information that represents a product varies from phase to phase: documents and specifications in the design phase, material numbers, BOMs, and routings in the planning and production phases - all of which are fed with resource data - and finally equipment data for organizing service and maintenance work.

This wide range of data can be managed with Life-Cycle Data Management - the backbone of all logistical processes.

mySAP PLM offers the entire spectrum of tools for evaluating and distributing product and project data.

This doesn't just cut administration costs; it systematically makes your product and process knowledge available in all systems.

Transparent data storage and processes are the ideal basis for making sound decisions on introducing activities and tasks.

This global view of a product is key to ensuring quality in all phases of the product's life cycle.

The collaborative working environment of Life-Cycle Data Management provides all the key capabilities that are needed in all phases of a product's life cycle.

Document Management Product ideas are often collected in the form

of drawings or descriptions. Functional specifications for a new product ar

e often compiled together with customers in a specification catalog.

In specifications, you describe how you want to implement the product.

Additional documents are created with increasingly sophisticated information technologies, such as CAx systems, digital mock-up, and the Internet, and models are integrated in the product design phase from the very start.

This massive influx of information, which can take on enormous dimensions even in the design phase, can be stored in a variety of formats, such as paper, audio, or visual media.

Recipe Management In the process industry, it is necessary to ma

nage recipes with worldwide product and recipe definitions, which will then be adapted to different areas and production lines.

Recipe Management facilitates the daily management of R&D departments, supports efficient knowledge-sharing, and leaves time for more creative and experimental work.

It involves the manufacturing division at an early stage of development so that their input, together with the knowledge of the other departments, goes into adapting the developed product to the production lines.

Integration CAD tools make the design process extremely produ

ctive by allowing to define or insert standard parts from a vast catalog.

The mySAP PLM CAD and conversion interface makes this data available to employees outside of the design process at an early stage.

At the same time, designers have access to the most up-to-date product data.

Change and Configuration Management Most companies need to change the technica

l or aesthetic features of a product every day, and the correction of errors and deficits nearly always affects all areas of a company, so the potential for reducing cost-intensive change efforts is correspondingly high.

mySAP PLM Life-Cycle Data Management gives you the flexibility to design your change processes and ensures that changes are an integral part of operational processes.

Thus, product quality is constant in every phase of the product's life cycle, and you fulfill the high quality standards demanded by product liability laws.

Product Structure Management The initial product design, specifications, CA

D model data, materials, and BOMs are just some of the data that describes and structures a product.

The product structure browser is the central navigation tool in the product structure.

It provides an overview of all product-related information, such as:– . The material master– . Documents– . Bills of material (BOMs)– . Routings– . Information from classification

Life-Cycle Collaboration Collaboration is at the core of most team activities . b

e it an OEM working with members of its supply chain to quickly and efficiently design and build a product, or a project team trying to coordinate activities of its different members in order to meet its objectives.

In fact, it is a strategic priority for companies in areas such as new product development.

Collaboration lends itself naturally to an exchange environment by permitting employees from different trading partners to effectively share relevant product and project information that is consistently and conveniently maintained at a central location, while keeping supporting and detailed information within the enterprise.

mySAP PLM Life-Cycle Collaboration is focused on new product development and sourcing among multiple companies.

It includes the following processes:

Design Collaboration cFolders enable SAP customers to communicate wit

h their partners and suppliers over back-end objects (for example, documents, materials, and BOMs in SAP PLM) without exposing their ERP system to them.

Suppliers and partners of the SAP customer can change or modify the BOM, document, or material information in cFolders, and then back-end users can integrate these changes seamlessly from cFolders to the ERP system.

Collaborative Project Management With SAP Collaborative Project Management

, a company can handle the entire range of project activities, from concept and planning through execution and the closing of a project, covering all project types from development to service.

Additionally, it enables companies to comply with industry standards by implementing project methodologies such as advanced product quality planning (APQP).

Collaborative Project Management, realized by cProjects, includes the management of templates, teams, phases, quality gates/milestones, tasks, scheduling, interactive Gantt chart, checklists, documents, object links, confirmation approval and digital signature, and a control plan.

In addition, it supports multi-project management, the integration of Microsoft Project (export and import), the creation of project snapshots and simulation versions, the assignment of substitutes for tasks, and many more.

Quality Collaboration Quality notifications are a powerful tool you can use t

o handle all kinds of complaints or internal problems. It is possible to create notifications on the Internet an

d process them in the back-end SAP system. You may also use your own, scenario-dependent, H

TML-based forms to enter whatever data is required for a notification or service request.

Quality Management Quality Management with mySAP PLM is a c

omprehensive solution that meets all quality management needs throughout the product life cycle and along the supply chain.

It offers a wide range of integrated functions, collaborative services, and mobile solutions for assuring and managing the quality of products and assets.

Quality management with mySAP PLM not only supports companies in the traditional tasks of inspection planning and processing, but also focuses on prevention and continuous process improvement through collaboration and sustained quality control.

Key features are:

Quality Engineering In the early stages of product design and dev

elopment, it is important to have the proper quality tools and to implement the appropriate quality planning strategies in your processes.

This can be instrumental in achieving a high and consistent level of quality for your products in the subsequent phases of the product life cycle.

mySAP PLM offers a number of different solutions that support your product development processes, allowing you to produce and market products that will satisfy your customers.

Quality Assurance and Control Once your quality processes are in place, yo

u must strive to maintain and improve the attained level of quality.

Quality control involves inspections at all stages, continuous monitoring, and intervening quickly to deal with unexpected events.

Quality Management with mySAP PLM provides the necessary tools to help you monitor your processes and keep them under control.

By integrating wide-ranging, flexible inspection processing functions into your regular quality procedures, you willll find it easy to stay on top of your processes.

Quality Improvement Achieving high levels of performance and qu

ality in your company's business processes doesn't happen by chance.

It is the result of a dedicated and sustained effort to improve your company's business processes.

Continuous process improvement should be a key element in your company's quality policy.

Identifying problem areas, analyzing possible problem causes, and eliminating the root causes of these problems are important activities in achieving this goal.

Quality Management with mySAP PLM provides the necessary tools to improve the quality of your products through prevention, efficient problem management, and evaluations.

Audit Management In an audit, you methodically review and exa

mine records and activities to determine whether the specification requirements of a process, system, or product have been met, and whether these requirements are suitable to achieve the desired objectives.

mySAP PLM's Audit Management product is an easy-to-use, yet powerful tool that you can use to manage your audit processes.

Regardless of your industry sector, this solution supports you throughout the entire audit process from the planning phase, through audit execution and valuation, to the evaluation phase.

This is a highly flexible tool with open interfaces.

It allows you to perform internal or external audits of systems, processes, or products, while taking the relevant standards into consideration.

You can also perform any kind of review or survey based on checklists.

mySAP PLM Audit Management also helps you to fulfil legal requirements and enables various scenarios for benchmarking.

Enterprise Asset Management Enterprise Asset Management serves asset

and plant managers, maintenance engineers, and all those involved with the management of physical assets.

It provides support from the first investment idea through procurement and start of operation, and right on until the end of operation and retirement of the asset.

The SAP solution for enterprise asset management covers all components of a fully integrated enterprise asset management (EAM) system.

Its integrated e-procurement capability makes it easy to order supplies and services, and the inventory management capabilities help improve the efficiency and performance of the equipment of the entire plant.

Cost-effective asset management requires a detailed understanding of the costs caused by the individual asset, manufacturer, facility, or production site.

SAP helps to identify problem areas and analyze their origin.

Integrated technical reporting and detailed cost reporting help to optimize maintenance and support decision-making on all staff levels.

The Enterprise Asset Management solution improves the profitability of your technical assets throughout all phases of the product's life cycle.

During the selection procedure and procurement process, you can use evaluations of the current asset portfolio as the basis for defining technical and business selection criteria for new and replacement procurement measures.

During plant operation, a complete and reliable plant maintenance solution leads to higher system availability and reduced breakdown costs by means of preventive inspections and maintenance.

Integrated plant maintenance enables more transparent and simplified processes in maintenance.

Therefore, material and labor costs can be reduced with the same level of system quality, and costs for the use of external service providers can be optimized.

The relationship between business data and technical information supports management in making decisions about repair, refurbishment, and scrapping of technical assets.

Enterprise Asset Management is a complete solution for achieving optimal condition of assets with the least cost and the best possible asset performance for all technical assets within your company.

Investment Planning and Design The capital engaged in modern production co

mpanies is considerable. Most Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) s

ystems would see the cost of an asset as being the costs for executed maintenance work and spare parts consumed.

Investment Planning and Design In SAP EAM, you can work with both eyes op

en when it comes to costs. An asset defined as a technical asset will aut

omatically also appear as a financial asset and be subject to proper depreciation management.

Procurement and Construction The process of building new production equip

ment will always involve a number of parties, including departments within your company and external parties like machine manufacturers, contractors, and suppliers of components.

SAP.s Enterprise Asset Management enables collaborative engineering as well as electronic bidding, and thus helps you to:– Plan, manage, and control the entire construction

process– Share schedule, task status, and responsibility ac

ross departments and with external partners

– Access any kind of documents, such as drawings, material master data, and bills of material

– Issue requests for quotation (RFQ) and reverse auction capabilities

– Identify the best contractor or supplier for the entire project, a specific service, or a piece of equipment

Maintenance Management The main functional areas of Maintenance Management are: Technical Asset Management Preventive and Predictive Maintenance Maintenance Execution MRO and Services Procurement Mobile Asset Management EAM Enterprise Portal Work Clearance Management Fleet Management

Decommission and Disposal When the time comes to decommission prod

uction equipment, you will need to collaborate with other internal and external parties.

The legal regulations for disposal of hazardous waste and the safety of the workers involved must be under full control.

Environment, Health and Safety National and international regulations, laws,

and recommendations are confronting EH&S specialists with more and more tasks and obligations, and competition is not getting any less intense.

mySAP PLM Environment, Health and Safety streamlines and automates the activities necessary to implement business processes safely, effectively, and in accordance with laws and regulations, thereby saving company time and money.

Concern about our environment and the health and safety of employees and customers needs to be backed up by competence and support in many areas.

mySAP PLM Environment, Health and Safety offers help in the following areas:

Product Safety Your company works with and produces man

y different products. Some of them might be risky to handle, so yo

u want to make sure that everybody involved knows about the products - anywhere, anytime.

Specification management forms the basis for most other SAP EH&S functions.

It allows you to create a specification to describe physical or virtual entities or objects, such as substances (pure substances, preparations, mixtures, polymers), agents (noise, dust, physical strain, pollution), packaging (bottle, barrel, cardboard box, pallet), and dangerous goods classifications.

Phrase management enables information to be handled effectively in standardized text elements in several languages.

By defining phrase sets, you can assign phrases to the individual characteristics of the specification properties.

Report generation and report management support the generation, management, and release of reports such as material safety data sheets and labels.

Report shipping is used to ship the completed reports in compliance with the applicable legal requirements.

Shipping can be triggered automatically from Sales Order Management, by a date-controlled check routine, or if a report has changed as a result of significant changes made to specifications or phrases.

Via the data exchange interface, EH&S objects such as specifications, phrases, reports, report templates, property trees, and sources can be interfaced with SAP and non-SAP systems.

The EH&S Expert and EH&S Easy Expert functions for determining secondary data provide an interface for deriving data automatically.

EH&S Expert is a rule-based system that calculates secondary data from existing specification data in the SAP EH&S system and verifies specification data for correctness, based on sets of rules and a Boolean algorithm-driven rule engine.

Hazardous Substance Management If hazardous substances are used in your ent

erprise, you have to protect your employees and the environment from the hazards caused by these substances.

This is irrespective of whether your company produces or sells hazardous substances, or simply uses hazardous substances that it purchases.

Furthermore, you also have to observe numerous rules and regulations worldwide; therefore, efficient hazardous substance management is becoming more and more important.

In addition, high safety and environmental standards improve your company.s image, increase your market opportunities, and reduce costs and risks.

The Environment, Health and Safety (EH&S) key functional area of mySAP Product Lifecycle Management (mySAP PLM) with the hazardous substance management key capability helps you to achieve these safety and environmental standards.

Hazardous substance management with mySAP PLM Environment, Health and Safety helps you to manage the following tasks, which are also governed by laws in many countries:

Checking for alternative substances before purchasing or manufacturing a hazardous substance

Blocking hazardous materials in purchasing Packaging and identifying hazardous substa

nces in accordance with regulations Storing hazardous substances safely

Managing up-to-date material safety data sheets and those that come from suppliers of hazardous substances

Comprehensive documentation of all changes to hazardous substance information

Determining all hazardous substances that occur and creating a hazardous substance inventory

Determining and assessing risks in order to protect your employees

Monitoring hazardous substance concentrations at the workplace

Arranging, undertaking, and monitoring the success of protective measures

Creating standard operating procedures for work areas and substances

Carrying out health and safety briefings for your employees about handling hazardous substances

Dangerous Goods Management Does your company produce, ship, or transp

ort chemical substances and products that are subject to dangerous goods legislation?

Then mySAP PLM EH&S Dangerous Goods Management, an EH&S capability, is the right solution for you.

Its close integration with the SAP system ensures that the capability supports all processes connected with the manufacturing and distribution of dangerous goods and also complies with valid national and international legislation.

It comprises the following functions.

Dangerous goods regulation data management enables you to store regulatory data for each dangerous goods regulation and UN number.

Dangerous goods classification supports the classification of many assigned substances or materials very effectively.

The dangerous goods master allows direct access from mySAP Supply Chain Management to perform dangerous goods checks and create dangerous goods documents.

Dangerous goods checks in mySAP Supply Chain Management Sales and Distribution processes are supported.

The dangerous goods checks are defined using highly flexible check functions.

Dangerous goods checks are performed automatically online or in collective processing when you save a sales order processing document.

The standard system offers the following check methods:– Availability of all necessary regulatory data depen

ding on the transportation route– Approval for the mode of transport depending on

all regulations derived from the transportation route

– Mixed loading prohibition

Tremcard management manages single or group tremcards (according to ADR marginal 10385).

Tremcards are automatically printed in the languages of all countries the goods pass through and the driver's language.

Dangerous goods-related data is integrated into mySAP Supply Chain Management documents.

The delivery note and packing list are enhanced by printing dangerous-goods-related data for each item containing materials that are classified as dangerous goods according to the appropriate regulation.

The dangerous goods regulatory data interface makes it possible to import the regulatory data that is offered by EH&S data content providers.

Waste Management If your enterprise generates or disposes of w

aste, you are required to comply with many different laws and regulations, for example, 40CFR in USA, Kreislaufwirtschafts- und Abfallgesetz (KrW-/AbfG) in Germany, or the Environmental Protection Act and Codes of Practice in the UK.

Management with mySAP PLM Environment Health and Safety support you in conforming to the law.

Just like the other mySAP PLM Environment, Health and Safety capabilities, waste management is fully integrated in the mySAP Business Suite solutions at the relevant points.

This means you can use SAP EH&S to support all your disposal processes, monitor, and automate your compliance with all relevant national and international laws and regulations, and distribute the costs proportionally among the cost centers in your enterprise that generated the waste.

In many cases, as a waste generator or waste disposer, you are required to take into account not only laws and regulations on waste, but also on hazardous substances and dangerous goods, and industrial hygiene and safety and occupational health.

EH&S product safety, dangerous goods management, industrial hygiene and safety, and occupational health provide you with comprehensive support for this, making mySAP PLM EH&S the ideal complete solution for all waste-generating and waste-disposing enterprises.

The primary benefits of Waste Management with mySAP PLM EH&S include:

– Easy compliance to waste regulations and laws (national and international)

– Greater, more accurate control over waste generation and waste disposal

– Closer compliance to dangerous goods regulations– More effective cost control– More efficient time and resource scheduling– Considerable reduction of administration effort

Industrial Hygiene and Safety In your company, many people work in many

different areas. In these areas, employees are exposed to inf

luences that could damage their health as well as the health of your customers, which reduce the effectiveness of your company.

Industrial Hygiene and Safety It is the task of industrial hygiene and safety t

o discover and control, or even to eliminate, these influences.

The mySAP PLM EH&S Industrial Hygiene and Safety capability supports your company in fulfilling this task and, at the same time, helps you to comply with valid national and international regulations.

mySAP PLM EH&S Industrial Hygiene and Safety offers the ideal solution in its close integration with the SAP system, ensuring that current data from logistics and human resources departments is always available.

Obtain and store information on:– Work areas– Any substance or material used or stored in the company– Exposure situation– Status of safety measures– Incidents and accidents– Training courses and briefings planned and held– Technical equipment (functional location, equipment)

Plan, manage, and document:– Site inspections– Risk assessments– Hazardous substance inventory– Training courses and briefings

Write and manage:– Accident reports– Standard operating procedures

Keep an injury/illness log Keep an incident/accident log Keep statistics on IHS issues Comply with IHS laws and regulations

Occupational Health A healthy employee is one of the most valua

ble resources a company has. Keeping employees fit and supporting them when they are sick or injured is a good means of motivating them.

Most companies provide health surveillance examinations in order to recognize, treat, and prevent potential health risks.

Occupational Health By doing so, the company not only makes sure every

employee is being cared for healthwise, but the company also complies with many laws and regulations.

This used to be very time-consuming. With mySAP PLM EH&S Occupational Health, howe

ver, company occupational physicians have a tool that will support them in their tasks most effectively.

mySAP PLM EH&S Occupational Health enables the physician to obtain and store information on all activities related to the physician's daily tasks, such as:– Carrying out health surveillance protocols

– Recording minor injuries, vaccinations, and consultations

– Making diagnoses– Printing medical certificates for employees– Writing reports and collating statistics

Health issues are always subject to medical confidentiality. mySAP PLM EH&S Occupational Health takes this into account and gives only employees with appropriate authorization access to confidential medical data.

Additionally, mySAP PLM EH&S Occupational Health can be run on a separate system instance.

mySAP PLM EH&S Occupational Health is fully integrated with mySAP PLM Environment, Health and Safety and with mySAP ERP Human Capital Management.

This reduces redundant data maintenance to a minimum.

Integration The functions of mySAP PLM are also core f

unctions of the mySAP ERP solution. They run in the same system and are directly

connected to the logistic functions in mySAP ERP. Additional functions are delivered through the cProject Suite.