Product Structure Template Management

This scope item supports the setup of templates for products or product families with many variants and components. They provide a highly flexible product structure that can manage configurable products or product families as well as non-configurable products as assemblies in one product structure. The product structure template can be built up manually or derived from functional structures. You can structure a product as a set of hierarchically and multi-disciplined (like mechanical and software) ordered objects in SAP S/4HANA Cloud.

Key Process Steps Covered

Manual creation of Product Structure:

  • Create high level product structure template manually (Product Family/Product View/Product Structure)
  • Save product structure template

Automated creation of Product Structure:

  • Create high level product structure template using Block Definition Diagram (BDD)
  • Save product structure template

Benefits

  • Structure a product as a set of hierarchically ordered objects and use it as template
  • Optimize the definition and maintenance of product structures
  • Create automatically product hierarchies from Block Definition Diagrams (BDD)