Key takeaways:

• Companies in process-oriented industries have many unique challenges to overcome to get products to market and sustain them successfully. Rather than the product, the process complexity makes the difference for these companies.
• Tight integration between systems across the product lifecycle is essential to manage the product lifecycle efficiently and realize the benefits in manufacturing (benefits during hand-over, scale-up, and BOM synchronization).
• PLM is a critical enabler for the development of formulated products, and the adoption of an integrated suite such as SAP PLM can help businesses be more efficient.
• Linx-AS has a heritage of success with helping SAP customers developing formula-based products implement PLM and EH&S solutions.