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In an ever-changing global environment, it is the ability to create and deliver innovative and market differentiating products and services that will give your organisation an edge over the competition. The SAP Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM) solution provides you with a 360-degree support for all product-related processes, from initial product development through manufacturing, and later product service. With our PLM software, you can:

• Create and deliver innovative products to meet or create market demand
• Optimise your product developing processes and systems to reduce time-to-market, while ensuring compliance to industry, quality and regulatory standards
• Beat the competition thanks to your now greater agility and capacity to react and take advantage of market and competitive opportunities across your business networks

SAP PLM is part of the SAP Business Suite, which provides organisations with the unique ability to perform their essential business processes with SAP’s modular software which is designed to work with other SAP and non-SAP software. Consequently, organisations and departments in all sectors can deploy SAP Business Suite software to resolve specific business issues on their own timelines and without costly upgrades.

For a more detailed view of SAP PLM capabilities, please refer to the SAP PLM business maps and SAP PLM in the SAP Community Network.

SEAMLESS PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

Innovation is the core strategy for growth. In order to raise levels of performance, your organisation needs to integrate innovation with closed-loop support across all stages – and within the context – of value-chain capabilities and strategic objectives.

With the help of business insight and business process integration, you can connect key functions, including planning, innovation management, complex project execution, and product portfolio management, to leverage innovation as a sustainable and profitable competitive advantage.

In the area of innovation management SAP solutions support the following processes:

• Strategy and planning – Organisations seeking to improve their response time to new market and customer opportunities require comprehensive business intelligence and the accumulation of relevant knowledge. This implies product performance analytics, project pipeline, operational metrics, competitive information, market trends, and customer analysis, which are the very business intelligence and analytic tools provided by SAP solutions. These support collaborative approaches to proactively identify strategic road map and innovation opportunities.
• Innovative idea management – Pulling together the right talent, partners, and capabilities necessary to enhance your organisation's core innovation competencies requires tools to support the critical front-end of the product and service development process. The SAP Business Suite supports smart idea management and integrated concept development to help you make the most of the best ideas and translate them into successful, innovative products.
• Program and project management – By defining and coordinating resources and projects cross-functionally, these can be launched at the right time to maximise profitability.
• Portfolio management – This application will align your portfolios with corporate objectives, including portfolios of projects, programs, and services within R&D, professional services, and IT. Maximise the value, balance, and strategic alignment of your project portfolio with the SAP Portfolio and Project Management application.