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
Enhanced Effectivity Information
Display Valid From, Valid To, Change Number From, Change Number To for
Product Variant and Product Item Variant
Product Structure Comparison and Export
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)
PSM2BOM Synchronization
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
Coristo PSM Solutions
Enhanced Effectivity Information
Product Structure Comparison and Export
Enhanced Authorization for Filters
Partial Configuration
PSM2BOM Synchronization
Migrations for BOM-Structures with GSS
Automatic Generation of Sync Family
Enhanced Effectivity Information
Enhanced Effectivity Information
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
Agenda
Coristo PSM Solutions
Enhanced Effectivity Information
Product Structure Comparison and Export
Enhanced Authorization for Filters
Partial Configuration
PSM2BOM Synchronization
Migrations for BOM-Structures with GSS
Automatic Generation of Sync Family
Product Structure Comparison and Export
Product Structure Comparison and Export
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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Agenda
Coristo PSM Solutions
Enhanced Effectivity Information
Product Structure Comparison and Export
Enhanced Authorization for Filters
Partial Configuration
PSM2BOM Synchronization
Migrations for BOM-Structures with GSS
Automatic Generation of Sync Family
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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Agenda
Coristo PSM Solutions
Enhanced Effectivity Information
Product Structure Comparison and Export
Enhanced Authorization for Filters
Partial Configuration
PSM2BOM Synchronization
Migrations for BOM-Structures with GSS
Automatic Generation of Sync Family
Partial Configuration for iPPE and PSM
Partial Configuration for iPPE and PSM
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
Agenda
Coristo PSM Solutions
Enhanced Effectivity Information
Product Structure Comparison and Export
Enhanced Authorization for Filters
Partial Configuration
PSM2BOM Synchronization
Migrations for BOM-Structures with GSS
Automatic Generation of Sync Family
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
Agenda
Coristo PSM Solutions
Enhanced Effectivity Information
Product Structure Comparison and Export
Enhanced Authorization for Filters
Partial Configuration
PSM2BOM Synchronization
Migrations for BOM-Structures with GSS
Automatic Generation of Sync Family
Thank you!
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