Connecting Innovation and Execution: How SAP’s Solution Strategy for PLM Extends the Digital Thread Across the Enterprise
SAP's solution strategy for PLM connects product innovation with execution, addressing fragmented systems and disjointed data across industries. By integrating SAP S/4HANA and cloud-native PLM capabilities, it provides a robust product data foundation, reducing costs and accelerating PLM journeys. SAP's solutions enhance collaboration, streamline processes, and embed AI for faster time-to-market and improved sustainability. Preuzmite dokument1 Copyright © 2025
COMMENTARY
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Connecting Innovation and Execution:
How SAP’s Solution Strategy for PLM Extends the Digital
Thread Across the Enterprise
Introduction
Across discrete manufacturing and process industries, enterprises are under unrelenting pressure to
innovate faster, design smarter, and operate more sustainably. Many organizations, however, still wrestle
with fragmented systems and disjointed data, where product information is often scattered across
engineering, manufacturing, sourcing, and service domains. This fragmentation slows decision-making,
increases cost, and prevents businesses from achieving a truly connected digital enterprise.1
SAP's solution portfolio features complementary native capabilities within SAP S/4HANA, which
establishes a robust product data foundation, alongside cloud-native PLM capabilities developed on the
SAP Business Technology Platform. This combination provides a platform that evolves with customers,
reduces costs, and accelerates their PLM journey. As illustrated in Figure 1, overall, SAP supports process
1 Research for this paper was partially supported by SAP.
Takeaways
SAP positions its solutions for PLM and the SAP Business Suite as providing the system of record
for product data, ensuring seamless execution across the enterprise. This enables companies to
connect design, supply chain, and service data in one integrated business platform.
SAP’s solutions for PLM create and manage the product data backbone required to drive
efficiencies throughout the supply chain.
SAP’s solutions for PLM address the needs of businesses in both discrete and process industries.
By embedding data, applications, and AI into a digital thread, SAP helps manufacturers accelerate
time to market, reduce risks, and deliver value more quickly from product innovation to operations,
and beyond.
SAP’s solution strategy emphasizes openness and integration, with integrations to leading third-
party PLM and CAD solutions, protecting customer investments while enabling cross-enterprise
collaboration.
SAP’s solution strategy is flexible, scalable, and resilient, positioning it to help enterprises succeed
in today’s fast-changing markets.
COMMENTARY
▪
Connecting Innovation and Execution:
How SAP’s Solution Strategy for PLM Extends the Digital
Thread Across the Enterprise
Introduction
Across discrete manufacturing and process industries, enterprises are under unrelenting pressure to
innovate faster, design smarter, and operate more sustainably. Many organizations, however, still wrestle
with fragmented systems and disjointed data, where product information is often scattered across
engineering, manufacturing, sourcing, and service domains. This fragmentation slows decision-making,
increases cost, and prevents businesses from achieving a truly connected digital enterprise.1
SAP's solution portfolio features complementary native capabilities within SAP S/4HANA, which
establishes a robust product data foundation, alongside cloud-native PLM capabilities developed on the
SAP Business Technology Platform. This combination provides a platform that evolves with customers,
reduces costs, and accelerates their PLM journey. As illustrated in Figure 1, overall, SAP supports process
1 Research for this paper was partially supported by SAP.
Takeaways
SAP positions its solutions for PLM and the SAP Business Suite as providing the system of record
for product data, ensuring seamless execution across the enterprise. This enables companies to
connect design, supply chain, and service data in one integrated business platform.
SAP’s solutions for PLM create and manage the product data backbone required to drive
efficiencies throughout the supply chain.
SAP’s solutions for PLM address the needs of businesses in both discrete and process industries.
By embedding data, applications, and AI into a digital thread, SAP helps manufacturers accelerate
time to market, reduce risks, and deliver value more quickly from product innovation to operations,
and beyond.
SAP’s solution strategy emphasizes openness and integration, with integrations to leading third-
party PLM and CAD solutions, protecting customer investments while enabling cross-enterprise
collaboration.
SAP’s solution strategy is flexible, scalable, and resilient, positioning it to help enterprises succeed
in today’s fast-changing markets.