SAP Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) application provides the source for all product-related information

What distinguishes your company from the competition is how you survive in an ever-changing global environment, create and deliver innovative and market differentiating products and services. The SAP Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) application provides your company a 360-degree support for all product-related processes – from the first product idea, through manufacturing to product service.

With SAP’s PLM software, companies can create and deliver innovative products that fulfill or create market demand, optimize product developing processes and systems to speed products to market while ensuring compliance to industry, quality and regulatory standards. Your company also becomes more agile than your competitors and is able to react and take advantage of market and competitive opportunities across business networks.

SAP PLM is part of the SAP Business Suite, which gives organizations the unique ability to perform 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 the complete product development process, including innovation and service processes at early development stages. The application strongly supports design and engineering phases and the hand-over to follow-on processes such as manufacturing – and project management in the development process.

At the document planning phase, you can manage technical document, parts, and product and process structures. SAP PLM also supports classification and variant configuration. For discrete industries, the solution uses bill of materials and routing; for process industries, it uses specifications and recipes. SAP PLM also provides as-built and as-maintained structures for service and maintenance phases.

Features include:

• Product data management

• Engineering change management

• Variant configuration

• Recipe management

• Digital manufacturing