Product lifecycle management (PLM)

Define, develop, deliver, and manage innovative and sustainable products by digitalising PLM for the digital supply chain.
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Design innovative and sustainable products by digitalising product development

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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.

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.

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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.

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Project management

Plan, execute, and monitor projects and portfolios across the enterprise to optimise business performance and achieve strategic objectives.

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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.

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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

Responsible design for green impact

Learn how Henkel is committed to leadership in plastics reduction and offering greener options for its customers.

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.

Why leverage AI within product-centric organisations?

See why manufacturing leaders use AI-enabled PLM to improve design quality, drive development, and enhance supply chain performance.

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