SAP Product Lifecycle Management


Overview/Description
Target Audience
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
Course Number
Expertise Level


Overview/Description
SAP Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) provides a comprehensive solution for managing all product-related information required in support of processes including planning, innovation, design, quality management, and engineering. As an integrated solution to SAP's enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, all information stored and maintained using the PLM solution is available across the enterprise to all other modules where required. This course introduces the SAP PLM solution, describing the overall concept of the PLM lifecycle and describing some of the main activities involved in managing products across the product life cycle.

Target Audience
Individuals who plan to use SAP's Business Suite 7 applications to perform basic business functions within their organizations

Expected Duration (hours)
2.2

Lesson Objectives

SAP Product Lifecycle Management

  • recognize phases of the product life cycle
  • match PLM solutions with their corresponding features
  • match phases of the project life cycle with corresponding tools within the Project System module
  • recognize the procedure for creating a new document
  • identify functions of the DMS
  • recognize applications in the Product Lifecycle Management module
  • recognize the relationship between the product life cycle and the project life cycle
  • create a new document using SAP's Document Management System
  • identify elements of the Project Builder interface
  • recognize the procedure for creating a new project in the SAP Project System
  • recognize the procedure for displaying an item in the Material Master
  • recognize the procedure for selecting a material to view
  • match PLM management functions with corresponding descriptions of how they relate to process planning
  • recognize the procedure for making changes to project information using Project Builder
  • sequence the steps of the change management processes
  • recognize the procedure for making a change to a project document using Project System
  • create a new project and make changes to its documentation using PLM applications

    • Course Number:
    sa_bseu_a03_dt_enus

    Expertise Level
    Intermediate