SAP Product Lifecycle Management ( PLM ) introduction, tutorial
SAP Product Lifecycle Management ( PLM ) is a collection of solutions with which you digitally create, maintain and make available product information in the whole company and for the entire life cycle of a product. As an ambitious company, you do not want to just keep up with the international competition, you want to increase your competitiveness in the field of new information technology. Only a flexible company that optimizes daily business in all life cycle phases of a product can achieve a competitive advantage. Product and process quality as well as knowledge management are essential factors for competitiveness in all these phases. Through the medium of the Internet, you optimize your business processes and business models for industrial relations.
By means of the integrated applications: SAP Customer Relationship Management, SAP Supply Chain Management and Business Information Warehouse, mySAP.com opens up the Internet as a working area for you.
PLM offers you the functions with which you can achieve the following aims:
• The Workplace is an open portal in the World Wide Web and offers you access to all information and applications that you require to work effectively with all internal and external business partners.
• PLM links the management of product and process data with other Internet applications such as Program Management, Change and Configuration Management and Engineering Collaboration. By using these applications, you improve coordination and cooperation during the execution of your business processes.
• You do not just make your product knowledge (for example, document, product structure or project information) available to colleagues in your company, using the Internet, your external business partners are also brought directly into the communication chain.
Contents of this SAP PLM tutorial PDF guide are
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) … 5
Product and Process Structures………… 7
Program Management………………….. 10
Lifecycle Change and Configuration Management………. 12
Engineering Collaboration………… 14
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