Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) 

Use

This generic business function provides you with the following functions:

Cross Application (CA)

●     CAD integration: CAD desktop

●     Document management: Document search on the Web (Documents@web)

Portal Content

●     Project Self-Service

●     Quality inspector and maintenance technician

Logistics

●     Integrated Product and Process Engineering (iPPE)

●     Variant configuration

○     IPC Configurator (Internet Pricing and Configurator)

○     Modeling environment

Quality Management

●     Quality planning (for example, QM input processing)

●     Quality inspection (for example, copying inspection results to an inspection lot)

Plant Maintenance

●     Work clearance management

●     Functional enhancements, for example, in the following areas:

○     List editing

○     Fleet management

○     Equipment dismantling/installation with goods movement

○     Change of equipment history

○     Configuration control

○     Reference measuring points

○     Interface for procurement via catalogs (OCI - Open Catalog Interface)

○     Reporting

○     Work packaging and sequencing (task list hierarchy)

○     Simple order view for maintenance and service orders

Project System

●     Material: Project-Oriented Procurement

●     Revenues and result: Enhancements in the resource-related billing document

●     Progress: Progress Tracking

Environment, Health and Safety

Product Lifecycle Management

●     Product and Process Modeling: Product data replication

●     Recipe Management

●     Product Designer

 

This business function uses the following BC sets:

Technical Name	Explanation
EA-PLM-AKH	Extends the application component hierarchy to include entries for Product Lifecycle Management
EA-PLM-IMG	Extends the Implementation Guide (IMG) to include entries for Product Lifecycle Management
EA-PLM-MENU	Extends the SAP menu to include entries for Product Lifecycle Management