SAP Integrated Product Development

SAP Integrated Product Development is a product lifecycle management solution used to define, develop, and deliver innovative and sustainable products faster by connecting insights, processes, and people.

The application helps users to accelerate product development, speed time to value, and reduce costs with the SAP Integrated Product Development 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

Mid-market companies need robust cost-effective, easy to implement PLM, deployed on the cloud. SAP Integrated Product Development provides SaaS-based cloud offerings based on microservices making them cloud-native as opposed to just hosting on-premises software in the cloud.

In addition, they can be directly connected to S/4HANA, or ERP and other PLM solutions based on the needs of the company. SAP Integrated Product Development software provides core PLM capabilities product-centric companies require, including:

• idea campaigns (including voice of customers)
• requirements/specification management
• CAD integration
• recipe formulations
• collaboration
• BOM management
• document management
• variant management
• change management
• portfolio and project management
• systems engineering
• product visualization
• collaboration with procurement and other departments, even beyond the enterprise with suppliers.

SAP provides a comprehensive set of integrations to support a company’s ecosystem including to multiple mechanical computer-aided design (MCAD), electronic computer-aided design (ECAD), ERP, and PLM integrations.