In today’s fast-paced, tech-savvy world, businesses are constantly on the lookout for advanced solutions that can streamline their processes, improve efficiency, and contribute to growth. One such crucial process that can significantly benefit from digitalization is product development. This is where SAP Enterprise Product Development comes into play. This powerful, cloud-based solution is designed to transform and digitalize your product development process from the initial design phase through to operation, offering a plethora of benefits along the way.

SAP Enterprise Product Development is more than just a tool—it’s a comprehensive solution crafted to help businesses meet the ever-increasing demands and challenges of the modern product development landscape. This platform is a highly customizable solution that can be tailored to meet your specific needs. It allows businesses to digitally orchestrate their entire product development process, enabling them to quickly adapt to changes, capitalize on new opportunities, and stay ahead of the competition.

SAP Enterprise Product Development is hosted and managed via SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP). This platform provides the foundation and integration capabilities needed to run the solution, ensuring seamless operation and scalability. With SAP BTP, businesses can leverage advanced technologies to further enhance their product development process, making it more efficient, agile, and capable of meeting the evolving market demands.

In this blog I cover some key highlights of the virtual event on November 29, 2023, where our PLM community joined in to discover SAP Enterprise Product Development. The participants got the opportunity to learn how to build integrated business processes with our solution to define, develop, and deliver innovative and sustainable products. We also revealed some concept work as a preview for you on how our solution is gearing up to help you transform your business processes to drive cross-functional product development efficiently.

“the key ambition is to have a smart integration framework so that you can bring all of the participants in the supply chain together, have an end-to-end business process, and based on the right context, provide the right information someone will need. And that is what we are trying to do. And the cloud is going to be very instrumental to achieve this.” – Ismail Serin, SAP

The presenters discussed how the cloud-based SAP PLM software enhances collaboration, improves product development processes, and accelerates time to market. They showed how SAP PLM software can revolutionize business operations by building integrated business processes that enable an end-to-end digital thread for the extended enterprise. They also discussed the importance of efficient and effective product lifecycle management in an ever-evolving business landscape.

“Realizing over time, products get more complex, more and more players and stakeholders get involved. So, the entire product development process started to become collaborative.” – Carsten Dietze-Selent, SAP

We had our partner All-for-One Group SE sharing the details on the accelerator ‘Convert 4 Visualize’ that empowers customers to – DEFINE once – CONTROL always – PUBLISH multiple – USE anytime. Once again underlining the crucial role the ‘single source of truth’ plays in the product development process. They showcased the end-to-end flow that one can achieve right from the CAD world using SAP ECTR to SAP EPD and the finally to plants and factories.

“especially for the initial creation of products it is very important to have this visual aspects in order to make it easier and to reduce errors in the way when we are completing our products.” – Klaus Hieber, All for One Group SE

In addition, the experts shared detailed information about the various innovations and features that the products offer and explored the future of the solution in both discrete and process industries. They also discussed the importance of compliance and embedding compliance into product development processes.

The speakers emphasized that AI is here to stay and will play a major role in recipe development and other areas of PLM. They also highlighted that SAP is committed to being a co-pilot in customers’ cloud transformation journeys, helping them navigate through the cloud and use EPD integrated into end-to-end business processes.

SAP Enterprise Product Development offers a powerful, adaptable solution for businesses seeking to digitalize their product development process. From reducing time to market to ensuring reliable product launches, this solution provides numerous benefits that can contribute to your business’s success. Backed by the robust SAP Business Technology Platform, SAP Enterprise Product Development is the ideal choice for businesses ready to innovate, compete, and grow in the digital age.

We also announced the upcoming e-Bite from SAP PRESS –  Introducing SAP Enterprise Product Development (EPD) for PLM available for pre-orders now. And If you pre-order the e-bite, you can use a 10% discount code: PLM10.

Start to Define, Develop, Deliver, and Manage – innovative & sustainable products today with SAP Enterprise Product Development Trial.

If you are interested in joining the conversation on digitizing product development to develop intelligent and sustainable products, stay tuned on the SAP Enterprise Product Development Community to get regular updates.

More information

•  SAP Enterprise Product Development Product Page
  Get acquainted with the software and familiarize yourself with its capabilities, pricing, and use cases.
• SAP Enterprise Product Development Continuous Influence
  Suggest improvements on SAP Cloud solutions and most recent technologies directly to the development teams.