[ SAP PLM Reviews ](https://www.g2.com/products/sap-plm/reviews) [ SAP PLM Reviews ](https://www.g2.com/products/sap-plm/reviews) # SAP PLM Features ##### ## New Product Introduction (4) Ideation Gather and analyse ideas for new products or product enhancements Time-to-market Calculate the time to market for new products or improvements to existing products Cost estimating Provide users with cost estimation tools for new products or enhancements Product approval Deliver workflows that can be used by managers to approve or reject new products and features Show More ##### ## CAD (3) CAD Models Allows users to create new CAD models or import them from CAD systems CAD Options Support CAD options such as computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) or omputer-aided engineering (CAE) Conversion Provides functionality to convert CAD models into bills of materials (BOM) Show More ##### ## Collaboration (4) Supplier alignment Allows users to colalborate with suppliers and partners on product development projects Communication Include features such as chat that internal and external users can use to communicate Development Helps users and suppliers or partners colalborate on product development activities Document Management Allows user to collaborate on creating and managing documents and files Show More ##### ## Product Data Management (3) Product Metadata Define and manage a taxonomy of product metadata that applies to the entire company Data Quality Manages the quality of the product data and ensures its up to date Version Control Tracks and audits versions and changes, including options to check-in and check-out Show More ##### ## Bill of Materials (4) BOM management Provide the ability to deliver product variations such as configure-to-order and engineer-to-order Multi-level BOM Bills of materials can be combined, merged, and nested to create multi-level BOMs BOM Types Manages BOM types such as manufacturing BOM (mBOM) or engineering BOM (eBOM) BOM visualization Provide users with the ability to visualize the BOM in a 3D environment. Show More ##### ## Engineering Change Management (3) ECR Workflows Deliver workflows to approve or reject engineering change requests (ECR) Change Management Allows user to manage changes to product configurations while maintaining the functional and physical attributes of a product throughout its lifecycle. ECO Management Create and manage engineering change orders (ECO) based on ECRs or from scratch Show More ##### ## Simulation (2) Virtual Testing Users can create virtual environments to test product characteristics Analysis Analyse multiple simulations to determine product strenghts and weaknesses Show More ##### ## Analytics (3) Reporting Provide users with the ability to report progress made throughout the product lifecycle. Costing Track product costs and costs related to design and development activities Product Intelligence Provide insights into product performance from multiple data sources Show More ##### ## Quality management (3) Quality planning Provide users with the ability to identify all functional needs of the product ahead of time and incorporate this information into each stage in the product development lifecycle Traceability Ensures that all quality issues can be traced back to the root causes Compliance Ensures compliance of items according to regulatory, safety, and environmental specifications Show More ##### ## Integration (3) ERP Integrates with manufacturing ERP solutions PIM Integrates with Product Information Management (PIM) software Maintenance Integrates with software for maintenance such as Enterprise Resource Management (EAM) Show More ##### ## Generative AI (2) AI Text Summarization Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary. AI Image-to-Text Converts images into a textual description, identifying key elements. 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