Oracle Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
Is your product lifecycle management (PLM) software helping you rapidly design and launch new products? Oracle Fusion Cloud PLM is a collaborative platform that helps you get your best ideas to market faster by standardizing and structuring the data and processes that go into innovating, developing, and commercializing products and services.
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Oracle Fusion Cloud Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
Learn how Oracle Cloud PLM accelerates innovation and new product introductions by efficiently managing items, parts, products, documents, requirements, engineering change orders, and quality workflows across globalized supply chains while seamlessly integrating to computer-aided design (CAD) systems.
Innovation management
Profitable innovations, faster
Drive faster, smarter innovation and ensure sustainable growth. Oracle Cloud PLM helps you maintain a profitable innovation pipeline fueled by a steady stream of the highest-value, on-target, and relevant ideas.
Ideate everywhere
Capture ideas from any source for new products, services, markets, or customer experiences. Evaluate each proposal across a 360-degree perspective of resource needs, assessed value, cost, and constraints.
Manage requirements and concepts
Document, prioritize, and agree on requirements leveraged in developing innovation concepts. Reuse existing items, trace requirements through design, and validate that each has been met to reduce new product introduction risks.
Build agility into innovation portfolios
Balance core, adjacent, and transformational innovation initiatives while aligning your resources, risk mitigation, and budgets. Use best-practice analysis to select an innovation portfolio that achieves your strategic and profit objectives.
Product development
Rapidly develop and launch products
Gain faster, more efficient product development and launch processes by bridging traditional, disconnected engineering and manufacturing functions through streamlined management of an integrated enterprise product record.
Minimize design cost
Gain complete visibility into your product(s) evolution by monitoring product iterations. Get feedback sooner and avoid costly rework with more effective collaboration internally and with your design partners.
Reduce supply risks
Reduce supply risk and track part preferences for manufacturing throughout each stage of design by maintaining a single view of qualified parts and suppliers across the entire product structure.
Accelerate change management
Effectively manage and model change iterations with a collaborative change management process. Eliminate rework and compress cycle times by configuring defined workflows with the flexibility to make changes if needed.
Enforce product compliance
Enforce product compliance and proactively track changes throughout your product’s lifecycle so you can quickly adjust to changing global standards, efficiently manage engineering documentation, and design compliant-finished products.
Quality management
Closed-loop quality
Improve the productivity, quality, and profitability of your processes and products. Drive closed-loop quality processes through design, procurement, inventory, manufacturing, and field service to ensure rapid detection and resolution of quality events.
Uncover data-driven insights
Make faster, more informed decisions and reduce risk with a predictive and connected 360-degree view of product quality across product lifecycle and supply chain processes.
Integrated issue management
Drive greater efficiency with consistent controls of your quality processes. Capture, aggregate, and perform root-cause analysis on quality issues raised from sources including IoT, field service, and incoming and work-in-process inspections.
Streamline preventative actions
Rapidly respond to issues, prevent reoccurrence, and drive continuous improvement with closed-loop corrective action processes that are tightly integrated with your product development, enterprise change, document management, and inspection processes.
Centralized document management
Manage standard operating procedures and industry regulations with a single source of truth that integrates training, document management, and change control to drive operational consistency, compliance, process improvement, and audit readiness.
Product master data management (MDM)
Product commercialization
Efficiently commercialize new products and services by sharing the right product data required for your sales, marketing, supply chain, and ERP processes.
Item mastering
Keep your item master data clean and synchronized across applications, data pools, and partners with a best-practice product information management (PIM) process and flexible attribution, change control, and native-governance capabilities.
Omnichannel commerce
Ensure that complete and consistent product information is published across your sales channels while efficiently sharing trusted product data across back-end SCM, ERP, and order fulfillment systems.
Integrated collaboration for external users
Automate and deliver continuous business-rule validations and verification of data to allow global contract manufacturers and suppliers to receive accurate information and authenticate the data they provide—no matter where they are located.
ERP migration and consolidation
Gain a single platform to centralize and consolidate product data—without disrupting ERP and supply chain operations. Oracle Cloud PLM can help you unify data from numerous ERP systems as a result of organic growth or a merger or acquisition.
Configurator modeling
Model complex products
Leverage a dynamic design environment to build configurator models that deliver an intuitive user experience. Simplify the configuration of multioption, customizable products and services.
Simplify the sales process
Guide your customers to the right—or optimal—products. Simplify the configuration process by adding high-level questions and tying the answers directly to one or more option selections.
Optimize user experience
Build better user experiences by guiding your customers to valid product configurations. Use display condition rules and a variety of selection controls to dynamically control how your content is displayed in the user interface.
Apply templatized design
Quickly create the dynamic runtime user interface that best meets your needs by choosing from predefined user interface templates.
Simulate model behavior
Design, build, and test business logic, model behavior, and overall user experience prior to release. When releasing new versions, you can leverage comprehensive impact analysis and validation checks to ensure quality.
Learn how Oracle Cloud PLM helps your supply chain and development teams unify processes and effectively manage data.
Oracle Cloud PLM lets the data flow whenever and wherever a good idea happens to drive continuous innovation.
Learn how cloud-based PLM software can break down data silos to help support your business transformation.
PLM use cases
Connect your product value chain
Unifies processes—from capturing an idea through commercializing products and services—on a single data model for faster decision-making.
Your guide to modern Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software (PDF)
Drive faster innovation to launch
Build a smarter innovation pipeline fueled by a steady stream of high-value ideas. Efficiently design, develop, and manage new product introductions and engineering change requirements.
Learn 5 strategies for faster new product development and innovation
Harmonize product data
Leverage a single enterprise product record that spans all applications to provide the velocity and resiliency needed to support today’s complex business transformations.
Read the analyst commentary: Weaving the Digital Thread: Oracle’s Enterprise Product Record
Reduce the cost of quality
Drive closed-loop quality management to make successful, high-speed decisions with real-time transparency and traceable information.
Learn how to reduce the cost of quality
Watch how companies are transforming manufacturing and quality across the supply chain
Leverage the latest technology
Get immediate value from built-in predictive analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (MI), IoT, and digital assistance that work together to create digital twins and turn data into insights.
Read how Oracle combines PLM and IoT to create digital twins and tie the digital thread
PLM customer successes
Customers in diverse industries across the globe leverage Oracle Cloud PLM to accelerate time to market, reduce costs, and improve product quality.
Product tour—Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
Enable a Digital Thread for Supply Chain Transformation
A single, integrated Product Lifecycle Management PLM platform
Oracle Fusion Cloud Product Lifecycle Management leverages advanced AI to intelligently guide your team from idea selection to successful execution. Seamlessly surface the best opportunities, automate routine processes, and gain predictive insights into product performance—all within an intuitive, unified platform. With AI-driven collaboration and decision support, your organization can streamline development, reduce risks, and enable every great idea to reach its full market potential.
Stay on top of your work with a personalized PLM Landing Page
With the new PLM home page, you can instantly see a consolidated overview of your responsibilities and pending actions as a product development user. Customize your workspace to spotlight priority tasks, easily approve or review crucial changes, and navigate directly to the workflows that matter most. The modern, intuitive interface is designed to keep your day organized and productive.
Find anything fast with unified Product Search
The unified Product Search delivers a modern, consistent way to find any PLM item, approval, workflow, or manufacturer across the system. Use intuitive filter chips with dynamic operators, simple keywords, and parametric options to quickly locate what you need. Enjoy smooth scrolling for larger results, instant feedback with search counts, and the flexibility to personalize or share saved searches—so your team can focus on what’s important without missing a detail.
Work smarter with the PLM Navigator
With the latest updates, the PLM Navigator makes managing objects simpler and faster. Quickly access all your saved searches right from your persistent clipboard and tag your most important searches for instant visibility at the top of the list. Easily filter searches by tagged status with new intuitive filtering. Inspired by Agile’s classic navigator, you can now push objects such as BOMs and change orders for detailed exploration. Expand hierarchies and review redlines all in one place. Effortlessly drag and drop objects directly from the PLM Navigator and revisit your recently accessed items to streamline product development workflows.
Create and edit items for efficient collaboration
The new Item Management experience streamlines the way you create, copy, and update items. A configurable, user-friendly interface allows you to use filter chips or keywords to instantly find attributes and pages, preview attachments without downloading, and personalize your workspace to match your role. Create accurate product records, promote reuse with rapid item copy, and confidently safeguard your IP with criteria-based access control. Empower every role to access and update critical information so your team can deliver superior products faster. Leverage these tools to keep product information up to date and readily available for teams across the entire product lifecycle.
Easily compare items for smarter product decisions
Discover a faster, smarter way to compare items in your product data. A sleek new user interface makes it easy to search, select, and visually analyze multiple objects side by side so you can quickly spot differences, apply filters, and focus on what matters most. Effortlessly save, export, or share comparison results to streamline collaboration and decision-making. With this modern, high-performance solution, you can reduce manual effort, prevent errors, and speed up item management across your organization.
Improve sourcing with AI-powered product comparisons
The Product Comparison Advisor AI Agent automates side-by-side comparisons of products. It analyzes technical specifications, costs, lead times, and compliance attributes to help you make informed decisions faster. Visual cues highlight key similarities and differences, reducing manual effort and minimizing errors. Effortlessly generate clear comparison reports to streamline sourcing choices and improve communication among stakeholders across your organization.
Visualize and edit BOM structures
Easily expand and navigate complex assemblies through a sleek bill of materials (BOM) management interface. Personalize columns and filters, drag and drop components, and use spreadsheet editing features to quickly update your product structures. Empower teams to define, analyze, and validate BOMs efficiently via configurable views, bulk editing, and instant access to component details—streamlining collaboration and accelerating your product lifecycle.
Simplify BOM comparisons with built-in visual indicators
Effortlessly analyze and validate structures with the new BOM Compare feature. Leverage intelligent visual cues to quickly spot differences and similarities across multiple BOMs, revisions, or redlines—enabling faster, more accurate decision-making for product design engineers, change analysts, and product managers. You can explore every component and attribute without manual data exports or complex spreadsheets, streamlining new product introduction and change management for all PLM users.
Gain real-time insight with Product 360 Advisor
The Product 360 Advisor AI agent delivers a unified view of inventory, master data, and transactions across all supply chain management processes. Instantly check product availability, usage trends, and open supplier orders, or ask for recommended alternatives. Gain the insights you need to manage shortages and mitigate disruptions before they impact your supply chain. Autonomously address recalls, backorders, and delays, driving resilient and efficient operations.
Accelerate new item creation with new copy features
Boost your productivity with a unified interface for creating new items from existing ones. Simply “Save As” to duplicate attributes, structures, attachments, and more while selectively adjusting only what’s unique. The intuitive new UI brings consistency to your product management processes, helping reduce manual effort and enhance accuracy so you can launch similar items faster and keep your data organized with ease.
Manage process changes with intuitive workflows
Easily create, edit, and manage workflows through a modern interface designed for fast, accurate change development. Access and configure up-to-date workflow information so each step is clearly visible and actionable. With support for efficient approvals, redlines, and seamless process promotion, you can keep your product development on schedule and help ensure your change management workflows are accurate and organized.
Reduce manual effort with built-in AI
The Component Replacement Assistant leverages AI to automatically identify every product and BOM impacted by a component change—whether it’s due to discontinuation, compliance updates, or cost reduction initiatives. Instantly receive recommendations for suitable alternatives based on supplier, compliance, or cost criteria. Leverage built-in impact simulations and automated workflows to efficiently implement replacements across your entire product structure. Ensure data integrity, compliance, and auditability while accelerating engineering change cycles — all within your Oracle PLM environment.
Enable policy changes with Workflow Policy Advisor
The Workflow Policy Advisor AI agent leverages your organization’s standard operating procedures and process documents to guide design engineers through change updates with confidence. Easily query policy information, receive concise summaries of relevant changes, and facilitate informed, compliant decisions at every step. Empower stakeholders with access to clear guidance to help streamline processes and reduce development cycle times.
Explore context-rich product data with Spotlight
Spotlight provides a contextual workspace where you can easily access, review, and explore detailed product data. Instantly focus on items, BOMs, or change orders with a single click—expanding hierarchies and viewing redlines or attributes without losing your place in the workflow. Designed for seamless exploration and accessibility, the Spotlight keeps all relevant information at your fingertips, enabling efficient deep dives and swift, informed action.
Manage manufacturer profiles with ease
Manage Manufacturer enables you to create detailed, comprehensive profiles for each trading partner—including locations, attachments, and related parts—from a single, easy-to-navigate page. Personalize manufacturer records using business rules and guided journeys, easily export manufacturer part numbers, and safeguard your data with granular, criteria-based access control for enhanced IP protection and flexible attribution. Empower your organization to accurately manage and secure critical manufacturer information across the product lifecycle.
Model multiple outputs in discrete manufacturing with Formula Management
Formula Management now lets discrete manufacturers define primary products, co-products, and by-products directly in their BOMs—eliminating the need to use workarounds or switch to process manufacturing. This native support helps you streamline costing and production planning, improve accuracy, and enable efficient reuse of items while reducing material waste. Accurately capture all outputs from your production flow for optimized scrap valuation and greater operational efficiency.
Organize and manage product categories and catalogs
The new Catalog Management experience empowers product catalog managers to search, view, and organize catalogs and categories with speed and accuracy. Easily maintain catalog structures, assign and manage products, and configure attributes. With seamless integration across Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain Planning, Manufacturing, and Procurement, you can ensure consistent, up-to-date product information flows across your entire organization, streamlining data management and supporting smarter business decisions.
Innovation management for life science companies
Gayle Hayes, Senior Director of Product Strategy, Oracle
These days, it’s a given that change can happen almost overnight. To keep pace, life science companies are looking at new ways to find and invest in the best innovations for the highest return and greatest value. Innovation management software helps you evaluate, select and track execution of the best ideas and inventions. That’s why many life science companies have embraced innovation management as a best practice to address the changing healthcare industry.
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