Product lifecycle management (PLM)

Define, develop, deliver, and manage innovative and sustainable products by digitalizing PLM for the digital supply chain.
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Design innovative and sustainable products by digitalizing 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 optimize 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 digitalizing product development and connecting supply chains to enhance speed, profitability, quality, and compliance.

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Integrated product development

Accelerate innovation by digitalizing, connecting, and streamlining product development.

Engineering control center

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.

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.

Empowering airport service teams

Learn how BEUMER Group built an augmented reality app for service technicians to streamline airport maintenance operations.

Optimizing 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

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 organizations?

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

Resources

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Evolving trends driving product design

Hear how product design drives supply chain growth and innovation.

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Designing what customers want

Learn the importance of tracking how product components interact with one another and with the environment to meet desired specifications.

Frequently asked questions

Yes, SAP’s solutions for PLM have capabilities suited for customers of all sizes to address their specific product data management needs.

SAP’s solutions for PLM include out-of-the box integration with SAP ERP software, which provides a single data backbone for the entire supply chain across design, procurement, manufacturing, logistics, and operations.

Yes, SAP provides solutions for customers in both process and discrete industries that enable them to define, develop, and deliver innovative and sustainable new products through an integrated collaborative environment powered by AI.

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