Make the Business Case for PLM with Hard Numbers

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is a proven strategic enabler that delivers substantial and measurable value and benefits across the entire product lifecycle — from accelerating innovation and boosting new product revenue, to reducing costs in materials, labor, overhead, quality, inventory, and administration.

The PLM Value and Benefits Calculator is a powerful, interactive tool designed to help you quantify the financial impact of Product Lifecycle Management for your organization based on the documented savings described in the PLM Value and Benefits Guide. By entering key business inputs—such as revenue, cost of goods sold, R&D, and operating expenses—you can quantitatively model how PLM improves innovation, accelerates time-to-market, strengthens the product pipeline, and reduces costs across materials, labor, overhead, quality, and inventory.

The calculator provides side-by-side profit and loss statements comparing your current state to the projected improvements with PLM, giving you clear visibility into potential revenue gains, cost savings, and margin improvements. Based on industry benchmarks and proven case studies documented in the PLM Value and Benefits Guide, the tool helps you build a credible, evidence-based, quantitative business case to justify your PLM investment and secure executive support.

Whether you are preparing for a board-level discussion, evaluating PLM vendors, or simply exploring the value PLM can deliver across your extended enterprise, the PLM Value and Benefits Calculator turns data into insight and enables you to make better decisions.

By leveraging both this calculator and the accompanying PLM Value and Benefits Guide you can build a compelling, evidence-based, quantitative business case to justify and maximize your investment in PLM that a CEO and CFO will understand.