Implementing SAP® Responsible Design and Production
Enable Circular Economy Processes and Packaging Compliance with SAP Responsible Design and Production
SAP Responsible Design and Production is SAP’s central solution for managing circular economy requirements and extended producer responsibility (EPR) obligations. It enables companies to take responsibility for packaging and product design decisions, from regulatory compliance to circularity.
Circular economy starts with product design: keeping materials, components, and products in use for as many loops as possible. This requires transparency, reliable data, and integrated processes across the entire product and packaging lifecycle.
With long-standing experience in complementing SAP Sustainability solutions, opesus supports companies in implementing SAP Responsible Design and Production efficiently.
How SAP Responsible Design and Production Supports Your Business
SAP Responsible Design and Production helps manage global packaging portfolios and local regulatory requirements on a single platform. The solution brings together ERP, third-party, and regulatory data to support efficient and consistent analytics and reporting.
Globally manage local EPR regulations and plastic taxes
Monitor and apply reporting requirements for extended producer responsibility (EPR) obligations such as the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR), plastic taxes and public commitments. Use standard templates or create your own reports.
Design for recyclability
and recycled content
Define design rules for recyclability and recycled content to check conformance at product, category, or corporate level. SAP Responsible Design and Production helps to analyze and optimize the packaging data regarding fees introduced by eco-modulation.
Improve portfolio insights
Use fee insights and analytics to make transparent, data-driven decisions across packaging portfolios. Identify reduction potentials across packaging materials and regulatory fees by leveraging core ERP and packaging data from SAP or third-party systems.
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Closing the Packaging Data Gap
SAP Responsible Design and Production is well equipped to support growing packaging reporting requirements. In practice, however, the availability and quality of packaging data often remain a challenge. Detailed information on materials, components, and packaging structures is required to support calculations, assessments, and reporting. This data frequently needs to be collected directly from suppliers.
Together, SAP Responsible Design and Production and opesus Packaging Data Collection address this challenge by connecting packaging data collection with regulatory processing and reporting.
SAP Responsible Design and Production & opesus Packaging Data Collection:
A Combined Approach for Packaging Data Management
Our Consulting Approach
We take a holistic view on packaging data management. Our focus is not only to support regulatory requirements, but to help companies build a reliable data foundation for sustainable packaging and circular economy strategies.
opesus supports you across your entire packaging data management journey:
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Understanding your packaging data today
Before implementing SAP Responsible Design and Production, it is important to understand how packaging data is handled today.
Together with you, we analyze:
- How packaging data is created, updated, and used across your company
- Which business processes and systems are involved along the product and packaging lifecycle
- Where manual steps, data gaps, or inconsistencies occur
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Implementing and integrating SAP Responsible Design and Production
Based on this understanding, we support the implementation and configuration of SAP Responsible Design and Production.
We focus on:
- Fitting SAP Responsible Design and Production into existing business processes for packaging data
- Integrating it into your SAP system landscape
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Extending SAP Responsible Design and Production with opesus Packaging Data Collection
In most cases, not all needed packaging data is available internally. This is where supplier collaboration becomes essential.
By extending SAP Responsible Design and Production with opesus Packaging Data Collection, we help:
- Collect packaging data directly from suppliers in a structured way
- Validate packaging data before it is transferred SAP Responsible Design and Production
Why opesus?
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Proven SAP Sustainability expertise:
Trusted by over 180 running opesus solutions in SAP environments -
Quick and focused implementation: Lean implementation effort
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Holistic consulting approach: Combining SAP expertise, regulatory knowledge, and deep know-how in multichannel supply chain data collection
- Cloud-based, future-ready solutions: SaaS deployment supporting scalability, collaboration, and continuous updates
