SAP Product Lifecycle Management
To survive in an ever-changing global environment, creating and delivering innovative and market differentiating products and services is what distinguishes your company from the competition. The SAP Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM) application provides you with a 360-degree-support for all product-related processes - from the first product idea, through manufacturing to product service. With our PLM software, you can:
- Create and deliver innovative products that fulfill or create market demand.
- Optimize your product developing processes and systems to speed products to market ensuring compliance to industry, quality and regulatory standards.
- Become more agile than your competitors and able to react and take advantage of market and competitive opportunities across your business networks.
SAP PLM is part of the SAP Business Suite, which gives organizations the unique ability to perform their essential business processes with modular software that is designed to work with other SAP and non-SAP software. Organizations and departments in all sectors can deploy SAP Business Suite software to address specific business challenges on their own timelines and without costly upgrades.
SAP PLM supports core business processes in the following areas:
- Product management: Enables planning and decision making to align high-level product plans and objectives with corporate growth strategies, supported by product portfolio analysis and management.
Product development and collaboration – Share critical information such as project plans, technical drawings, product structures, product documentation, service bulletins, audit results, and change orders across virtual teams. - Product data management: Encompasses comprehensive product master and structure management, optimal recipe and specification control, proactive service and maintenance management, and graphic visualization and publishing.
- Life-cycle management:Enables product compliance, product intelligence, product costing, tool and workgroup integration, project and resource management, and document management.
Additional Features and Functions
SAP PLM also has these features and functions that help you:
- Quality management: Integrate quality management for all industries throughout their entire product life cycle.
- Environment, health, and safety: Streamline and automate activities for implementing business processes safely, effectively, and in compliance with environmental, health, and safety laws and regulations.
- CAD integration: Gain the functionality to directly embed major CAD-authoring tools into the product development process available via SAP PLM.
- Document management: Incorporate a fully integrated documentation tool for managing a wide variety of documentation files related to specific products.