Product lifecycle management (PLM)
Design innovative and sustainable products by digitalising product development
Improve profitability, quality, and compliance
Enhance efficiency by tackling R&D challenges, speeding up product development, meeting regulations, and fostering innovation for robust and sustainable supply chains.
Accelerate product development
Deliver products to market faster with AI-enabled product innovation.
Streamline collaborative product development
Integrate product development with the entire supply chain to optimise efficiency and ensure seamless operations across the product lifecycle.
Facilitate business decisions
Establish a data-driven digital thread for each product through its entire lifecycle.
Product Design Assistant
Use AI to power product design, streamline product data creation and validation, and accelerate product development—while reducing supply chain risk.
Run autonomous product design
Anticipate risk and validate decisions early.
Reduce rework, delays, and cost exposure.
Speed up changes across design, planning, and manufacturing.
Explore product lifecycle management capabilities
Connect every aspect of your supply chain with PLM software from SAP to improve product development speed, profitability, quality, and compliance.
Product development
Improve decision-making and innovation with SAP by digitalising product development and connecting supply chains to enhance speed, profitability, quality, and compliance.
Integrated product development
Accelerate innovation by digitalising, connecting, and streamlining product development.
Engineering control centre
Integrate design data with business data for seamless cross-discipline collaboration.
Product lifecycle costing
Maintain profit margins by managing costs early and simulating impacts throughout the product lifecycle.
Product data integration
Boost efficiency and collaboration with bidirectional integrations for unified product data across the entire supply chain.
Business process integration
Integrate PLM systems such as Teamcenter, 3DEXPERIENCE, PTC Windchill, and Autodesk Vault to support end-to-end business processes.
Efficient and transparent data management
Improve material and supplier processes, support product design and variant management, and streamline supply chain functions.
Project management
Plan, execute, and monitor projects and portfolios across the enterprise to optimise business performance and achieve strategic objectives.
Portfolio and project management
Manage the project lifecycle from investment decision to closure on a single platform integrated with your enterprise processes.
Project collaboration and staffing
Share project information with external and internal stakeholders, resolve issues, and staff projects with the right resources.
Compliance
Ensure compliance, sustainability, and extended producer responsibility obligations throughout the product lifecycle to optimise material choices and accelerate product introductions.
Product compliance
Enforce compliance at each step of the product lifecycle, manage regulatory and sustainability requirements, and classify products.
Responsible design and production
Calculate extended producer responsibility (EPR) obligations, plastic taxes, and corporate commitments to optimise material choices.
See how customers are succeeding with SAP
Revolutionising supplier quality management
Learn how Vestas is revolutionising supplier quality management through enhanced collaboration.
Excellence in food safety and standards
Learn how Danish Crown enabled efficient and scalable collaboration within and across the extended enterprise.
Optimising product cost management
Learn how Preh can now work with suppliers to refine product designs and make offerings more cost competitive.
See what analysts are saying about SAP
SAP’s comprehensive solution strategy for PLM
Learn how SAP’s solutions for PLM synchronise design, sourcing, manufacturing, and service within a single source of truth.
Discover what makes SAP an innovator
Learn why Frost & Sullivan included SAP in its analysis of companies that best reflect PLM for manufacturing industries.
Resources
How Sustainable Product Innovation Is Changing the Game in Product Development
Understand the importance of sustainability in today's global marketplace and how sustainability and how it has now become a top priority for businesses across all industries.