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Best Practice and Enhancements for

SAP Product Structure Management (PSM)/SAP iPPE

and

SAP Guided Structure Synchronization

Agenda

Coristo PSM Solutions

Enhanced Effectivity Information

Product Structure Comparison and Export

Enhanced Authorization for Filters

Partial Configuration

PSM2BOM Synchronization

List of Coristo Enhancements for PSM


Display Valid From, Valid To, Change Number From, Change Number To for

Product Variant and Product Item Variant


Compare different configurations of product structures in SAP online or in

EXCEL

Export product structures to EXCEL

Enhanced authorization for Filters (iPPE)

Authorization Management for iPPE Filters

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List of Coristo Enhancements for PSM

Partial Configuration for iPPE and PSM

Partial Configuration (120%) of PSM and iPPE Structures (can be switched on and off by

user)


Automatic Creation of Sync-Family

PSM2BOM Synchronization by using Partial Configuration

Simulation in Sync-Unit

Automatic mapping between Engineering Change Number and Manufacturing Change

Number

Enhanced conflict management

Logistic enhancements

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Agenda







Migrations for BOM-Structures with GSS

Automatic Generation of Sync Family



Display

Valid From

Valid To

Change Number From

Change Number To

for Product Variant and Product Item Variant in PSM

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Change number handling in SAP PSM standard I

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With the PSM-standard the user is not able to see which change states exist

with the according validity

Change numbers in SAP PSM standard II

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The user has to open an additional window for each change number to

determine at which date the affected number is valid

The user needs to open every change number and remember at which date the

change state is valid to get an overview over the change states

BOM display in SAP-standard

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However in the SAP-standard environment for BOMs, the user always gets an

overview of the different change states

Coristo Enhancement: PSM-Screen with additional fields

for effectivities

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With the additional fields for the change numbers, the user gets directly

an overview over the change states of the product variants/product

item variants

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Display a PSM-Structure in a Tabular View

Compare different Configurations (Simulations) of a PSM structure

Needed if you want to compare different 120% structures

Excel-Export of PSM-Structures

Export PSM-Structure to EXCEL

Additional fields available e.g. “Full Object Dependency”, Valid from, Valid to, ….

Product Structure comparison in EXCEL

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Product Structure Compare and EXCEL-Export

Selection Criteria

Product Structure

Simulations (multiple

selection possible)

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PSM in Tabular View

Tabular View for PSM Structures

Integrated in SAP

ALV-Layout with all sort and filter functionalities

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EXCEL-Export

EXCEL-Export

Detailed Data of all simulations in separate EXCEL-Sheet

Displays the different simulations and the characteristics and characteristic

values, which are valuated in the according simulations

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EXCEL-Export

EXCEL-Export

Result of EXCEL-Export

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Authorization for Filters

Authorization for Filters

Add different authorizations to filters

Available for SAP-GUI -> iPPE/PDN

Can be also be implemented for PSM Simulations

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Authorizations for Filters

When saving the filter the user can choose the according user group,

which can change the filter.

The authorizations for the user groups are managed by „normal“ SAP

PFCG-Roles.

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Allows you to configure a product structure by using partial

configuration

Partial configuration can be switched on and off by user

When partial configuration is switched on

There is no need to valuate mandatory Characteristics

You have the possibility to valuate more than one value in the characteristic

even if the characteristic is “single value”.

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Configuration - overview

SAP Standard - Full configuration

Configuration of customer-specific end-products

Purpose is to get a valid configuration (customer order) for a single 100%

product

Best practice

Single-value characteristics

Partial configuration

Any kind of partial configurations of a product structure

Result can be >100% or part-structures with >100% or <100%.

Variance is still allowed

Multiple evaluation of single-value characteristics possible

High-Level dependencies are not considered

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SAP Standard configuration – concept

Each characteristic is valuated

with one specific characteristic

value

Result of configuration: variant-

free structures (100%)

Focus: Customer orders

SAP-standard

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Table platform

Table, oval

Tabletop Oval

Table frame Oval

Table leg round

Table, quadratic

Tabletop Quadratic

Table frame Quadratic

Table leg square

Full configuration – usage I

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Create structures of customer-specific end-products

Full

configuration

For each product item,

there is only one product

item variant valid.

Full configuration – usage II

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Not evaluated characteristics are not considered in the configuration

precise

configuration

The product item variants,

which are dependent on

values of a characteristic,

which is not validated in the

High-Level Configuration,

are invalid

Partial configuration - concept

Multiple valuation of single-

value characteristics possible

Configuration result can still

contain variance

Focus: internal processes

Coristo-Enhancement

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Table series, oval & round

Tabletop Oval, round

Table frame Oval, round

Table leg round

Table series, quadratic

Tabletop Quadratic

Table frame Quadratic

Table leg „empty“

Table platform

Partial configuration – activation I

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Activation by user by valuating a trigger-characteristic:

As long as the Trigger is set to „SAP Standard Configuration“ the

characteristics can only be evaluated with max. one value, but if the Trigger is

set to „Partial configuration“ the same characteristics can be evaluated with

multiple values

Partial configuration – activation II

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Standard configuration is active: only single-value selection is possible

Partial configuration – activation III

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Partial configuration is active: multi-value selection is possible

Partial configuration – usage I

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Configure a product with a partial configuration, you are able to set more than

one characteristic values

Partial

Configuration

More than one product item

variant possibel

Partial configuration – usage II

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not valuated characteristics won’t affect the configuration result

no effect on the

configuration

result

Summary – Complete Configuration – Partial

Configuration

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Feature SAP Standard with

Single-Value

characteristics

SAP Standard with

Multi-Value

characteristics

Coristo Partial

Configuration

Single-Value characteristics

Multi-Value characteristics

Ignore not evaluated

characteristics

Create complete

configuration

Create any substructure

High-Level-Dependencies,

during configuration (see

note)

Allow configurations in GSS

Note: The usage of multi-value characteristics is not recommended by SAP, because it could cause errors while evaluating

dependencies. These error occur, because it is not always clear how values shall be compared with each other.

See also: https://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp60_sp/helpdata/en/83/63b6531de6b64ce10000000a174cb4/frameset.htm

https://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp60_sp/helpdata/en/83/63b6531de6b64ce10000000a174cb4/frameset.htm

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GSS with Partial Configuration

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GSS with Partial Configuration

Partial simulation can be used for synchronization PSM2BOM

Supports GSS for 150% PSM 120% BOMs

GSS with partial configuration I

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Synchronize platform-structure into BOM with partial configuration

Creating BOMs with partial variance of the platform

Table platform Table series “Round”

table series

“Round”

table series

“Oval”

table series round

Tabletop round

Desk frame round

Table leg round

Table leg square

Tabletop oval

Desk frame oval

GSS

Table series, oval & round

Tabletop Oval, round

Table frame Oval, round

Table leg round

GSS with partial configuration II

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The simulation (which

contains the partial

configuration) can be

added to a synchronization

unit

The GSS will execute a

partial configuration before

calling the reconciliation

workbench

Only the valid variants

(result of simulation) will

be considered in GSS

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