PLM has nothing to do with enterprise wide information management?

I think,  PLM (PDM) has become so confused with the core ERP domain. In general, PLM vendors have taken on the core engineering and now business processes around product development. They have arrived at the end of the growth curve and have a mature market. So they diversify..and are now entering B2B related to core execution systems and Business intelligence. While the flexibility of PLM products was an asset to solutions, this becomes a liability when arriving at transactional areas and do not have domain expertise. While PLM system may be able to offer a window into the transaction flow as a previous comment mentioned, its at what expense. PLM is your hammer so is Business intelligence on products just another nail?

A total PLM is not only desirable but is near to being achieved .From Design to Raw Materials to manufacture to end-Delivery. Take any point on the end-to-end PLM and we can have it "automated" where you can plug-in and see your PLM state managed to any desirable juncture. Be it collaborated,conceptualized, ordered, flanged-to-ERP, raw-material-PLM ,being manufactured, inspected ,shipped ,assembled ,tested ,delivered,RE-ORDERED ,paid, banked,TOTAL PRODUCT LIFE CYCLE without handoffs under one PLM  i.e. enterprise wide information management