Solutions for product lifecycle management (PLM)
Make better decisions faster with a digital thread for PLM
With PLM software from SAP, you can build a risk-resilient and sustainable supply chain that provides actionable information, supports product innovation, and empowers people.
Connect every process
- Accelerate time to market by connecting product development with the extended enterprise and supply chain.
- Realise the digital thread by keeping information flowing throughout the product lifecycle and eliminating costly silos.
- Evolve products continuously with feedback loops from customers and sensors to gain insights.
- Stay in sync with manufacturing using interactive product models to share assembly and service instructions.
Contextualise every decision
- Win the race to market by blending the customer’s voice with business data to build new products faster.
- Develop compliant products using permitted and sustainable materials with data on energy consumption and emissions to guide design choices.
- Understand the impact of changes on costs, compliance, lead times, and more using data from multiple sources.
Collaborate with your ecosystem
- Engage suppliers earlier by connecting through digital networks to accelerate design decisions and avoid delays.
- Share a digital definition of your product and plan, securely exchanging information to compress cycle times and improve time to value.
- Design products globally on a single platform that combines people, plans, and data.
Explore PLM software from SAP
By connecting every aspect of your supply chain with PLM software from SAP, you can improve product development speed, profitability, quality, and compliance.
- Define, develop, and deliver high-quality, sustainable products through innovative development processes.
- Provide relevant information and insights to drive collaboration and speed up product development
- Combine business data and engineering models, using digital twins to create closed loops that help synchronise product lifecycles along a digital thread.
- Manage your portfolio, plan with precision, and monitor cost and progress performance in real time.
- Control project timelines, monitor schedules, and execute engineering activities according to project plan and milestones.
- Staff projects with confidence, meeting project requirements by assigning the right employees to the right projects at the right time.
- Manage costs for new product innovations and customer-specific engineered products.
- Minimise costs by securing future product margins early and maintain visibility on cost structures.
- Simulate the impact of cost reduction measures by identifying cost drivers in later stages of the product lifecycle.
- Reduce risk and protect brand by automating compliance processes, and use real-time analytics to speed time to market.
- Collect, manage, and publish compliance documents and certificates to meet compliance and stakeholder requirements.
- Provide safe and compliant transportation of hazardous materials to avoid delivery delays and protect brand value.
- Access information from across the product development process using a single, integrated platform.
- Gain a holistic view of product development information, including data from mechanics (MCAD), electronics (ECAD), software, and simulation tools.
- Help users work more effectively with embedded quality and sustainability management features.
- Manage packaging and regulatory risk, transition to a sustainable portfolio, and maintain a global view of progress.
- Redesign products and packaging to be more sustainable and assess the impact of design changes.
- Manage extended producer responsibility (EPR) declarations and materials taxes in line with latest regulations.
- Connect individual business areas and processes, break down information silos, and create a digital thread that connects systems.
- Integrate design data from SAP Teamcenter by Siemens with business data from SAP S/4HANA.
- Manage the impact of change across disciplines, gain essential real-time insights, streamline service, optimise asset use, and capture useful feedback.
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