Target-driven recipe development with SAP S/4HANA

It’s never been more important for process industries to innovate and optimize how they create, develop, adapt and manufacture their products. A top priority for these businesses is the process they deploy to develop the recipes for each and every product.

SAP has developed some crucial assets that help enable recipe managers to work more effectively. These include fundamental building blocks to track a list of ingredients, allergens and so on as well as the processes, security and control required to deliver a complete recipe.

A leap forward for recipe development

Now, recipe development is poised to take another major leap forward. Accenture and SAP have jointly developed a breakthrough solution based on SAP S/4HANA: target-driven recipe development (TDRD). This new solution supports recipe managers to respond to the new demands of the customer-driven world.

Customer-first recipes

What makes TDRD so special? Instead of working from a bottom-up approach, TDRD takes the customer requirement as the driving force for every recipe, and then cascades those requirements through development and manufacturing.

While all the information recipe managers needed was previously available somewhere across the organization, TDRD’s unique strength is to bring the data together, in real time, accessed and visualized through a user-friendly interface. By taking an integrated, data-driven "system" view of recipe management, the solution coordinates and integrates all the variables that can affect a product, from the imposition of a sugar tax to growing demands for more vegan products.

All the right ingredients for success