SAP Product Lifecycle Management
Reimagine innovation with product development in the cloud
Reduce time to market by digitalizing product development from design to operate for discrete manufacturers and design to consume for process manufacturers.
Accelerate product development, speed time to value, and reduce costs with the SAP Product Lifecycle Management solution.
Software as a service (SaaS) solution to support the collaborative idea-to-market process
Bi-directional product data synchronization
Single source of truth for product data
Embedded collaboration and a 360-degree overview for better analysis and decision making
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Reimagine innovation with product development in the cloud.
Key benefits
Innovate new products quickly
Develop high-quality, connected, compliant, and sustainable products through innovative development processes.
Provide actionable information
Enable enterprise collaboration with all relevant information, insights, and stakeholders to accelerate product development.
Empower the enterprise
Create closed-loop enterprise processes to synchronize the digital thread from design to operate and design to consume.
Key features
Define
Run crowd innovation campaigns to identify new product development needs
Obtain feedback and insights from voice-of-the-customer systems, service feedback, sensors, and more
Link requirements to product and business data for full traceability and transparency
Develop
Collaborate in real time to minimize the risk of supply chain disruptions
Verify and validate product performance against requirements
Build a single source of truth for product, raw material, and packaging specifications
Control product data, enforce consistent change management, and create an audit trail to fulfill regulatory requirements
Deliver
Combine business data and engineering models to create smart products and digital twins
Create recurring revenue streams with subscription-based business models
Hand over different product model views to extend and augment the digital thread
Turn product data into spare parts catalogs to increase order accuracy and drive aftermarket revenues
Transform 3D product data into interactive visual service instructions with augmented reality
Manage
Connect 3D CAD data to ERP and master data to visualize and manage products as digital twins
Manage your product master data and sustainability information to make better, faster decisions
Empower teams to take the right actions based on information in dashboards, KPIs, and charts
Integrate the product development process with SAP S/4HANA and the extended enterprise
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