Product innovation brings new challenges daily � environmental concerns,
shorter product life spans, globally distributed sites and project teams. Today
manufacturers must deliver high-quality products quickly and cost-effectively �
while retaining and building a customer base, reducing service costs, and
complying with international regulations.
After using sophisticated systems for design, enterprise resource planning,
and customer relationship management, you may still need to get new products to
market faster. Critical departments and functions may still operate separately.
Suppliers and partners may have challenges getting through your firewalls.
You need an integrated product life-cycle management (PLM) software solution
for collaborative engineering, product development, and management of projects,
product structures, documents, and quality. That PLM software should provide an
information backbone to help you access relevant information anywhere, anytime.
You need the SAP Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM) application.
The SAP PLM application provides integrated product life-cycle management
software - a single source of all product-related information needed for
collaborating with business partners and supporting processes including product
innovation, design and engineering, quality and maintenance management, and
control of environmental issues.
The SAP PLM application can help your organization:
Support strategic sourcing by interfacing with supplier relationship
management software
Provide role-specific, context-driven access for internal and external
users to relevant information, tools, and services
Improve decision-making through insight into projects; flexible
reporting; and analytics for portfolio management, occupational health,
product safety, and product quality
Increase strategic and operative control by monitoring product and
production changes affecting timelines, costs, and resources
Provide an open-technology framework that delivers up-to-date data
required by enterprise processes for demand planning, manufacturing,
purchasing, and sales
