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

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