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What is RISE with SAP?

The RISE with SAP offering is a managed cloud service (SaaS) that helps organizations using on-premise ERP software – including SAP ERP or SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA – to migrate to the cloud securely and smoothly. In return, our customers can take advantage of powerful cloud-based business management software with embedded intelligence, real-time insights, and advanced technologies that improve compliance and builds business resilience. 

Bring out the best for development teams in product-centric companies

This means a Digital Thread is the integration of product design data across a product’s lifecycle in a circular economic manner for all process steps until the delivery and disposal or re-use at the end customer. Also, product designers want to get insights about the feedback from the products to improve quality or performance continuously. To enable such manufacturing companies building this Digital Thread to accelerate time to market with risk-resilient supply chains, SAP has introduced RISE with SAP advanced PLM package, combining some of the existing key capabilities from its product lifecyle management portfolio.

Engineering teams can develop new product ideas and requirements and visualize the product BOM natively connected to S/4HANA. This groundbreaking innovation empowers engineers to streamline product development and take efficiency to new heights.

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Figure 1 Illustration of the Business Process for Product Development from SAP

Introducing the Comprehensive Solution

The newly released RISE with SAP advanced PLM package offering is a game-changer for product developers/engineers in manufacturing industries. This packaged solution provides out of the box functionality for product developers and engineering teams to collaborate beyond the enterprise for new product innovations. It optimizes efficiency across teams and accelerates time to market, improves product quality while meeting highest security standards, using the managed cloud services based on SAP Business Technology Platform and S/4HANA.

The package includes:

  • SAP Product Lifecyle Management
  • SAP Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management
  • SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, product lifecycle management

The concept of the Digital Thread is a crucial aspect of market-driven decision-making to stay ahead of competitors. This refers to consistent and synchronized product design data throughout its entire product lifecycle, from inception to disposal or re-use. By implementing a circular economic approach, companies can ensure that product design data is effectively utilized at every stage, leading to enhanced efficiency.

SAP Product Lifecycle Management

Define, Develop, deliver and manage innovative and sustainable products by digitalizing product design data for the digital supply chain in the cloud, natively connected to S/4HANA.

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Product-centric companies can analyze vast amounts of market data, consumer preferences, and trends to evolve their product development strategies and drive innovation campaigns.

Visualization PLM software from SAP is also playing a key role in enhancing physical data with digital images. This improves collaboration and accelerats the product development cycles when the future and or existing product is visually available as so-called Digital Twin. These tools enable teams to seamlessly integrate data from product development with computer-aided design (CAD) models, resulting in improved efficiency and transparency throughout the manufacturing process.

 

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Figure 3 Example screens for data visualization as "digital twins" in SAP PLM

SAP Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management

Identify the projects that can generate the most business value to help you make the right investments at the right time to meet business goals. SAP EPPM enables you to track project costs and revenue, schedule performance by comparing actual values against forcasts.

 

 

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Figure 4 Example screen for project overview in SAP EPPM

SAP SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, product lifecycle management

Natively integrated PLM data gains efficiency within the core business application and having full transparency consistent along the Digital Thread.

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Figure 5 Example screen CAD data in BOM visualized in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, product lifecycle management

Key Features and Benefits

The package empowers product-centric teams in manufacturing companies to bring out their best:

  • Precise investment planning & real time monitoring of cost, project timelines and progress performance.
  • Realize the digital thread by keeping information flowing throughout the product lifecycle and eliminate costly silos
  • Evolve products continuously with feedback loops from customers and sensors to gain insights
  • Simplify R&D processes to develop new products and collaborate more successful with other teams

Conclusion

In conclusion, the comprehensive RISE package offering for Product Lifecycle Management elevates efficiency of teams to a new level. By harnessing the power of cloud technologies, organizations can accelerate development cycles, reduce redundant manual tasks, and realize a digital thread. Stay in sync across all design, manufacturing and other downstream processes along the digital supply chain like never before. Whether you're an engineer, product designer, buyer, supplier or service technician. Accurate data for product-centric roles are key to success for manufacturing companies. Embrace the future of product development with the journey to transform you business with cloud services. Get started today with the RISE with SAP advanced PLM package. 

To learn more about SAP Product Lifecycle Management go to: SAP PLM

To learn more about SAP Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management go to: SAP EPPM

To discover the whole solutions portfolio of SAP PLM go to: sap.com/plm