Product Structure Management

This scope item supports the setup of products or product families with many variants and components. It provides 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 can be built up manually or derived from functional structures. You can structure a product as a set of hierarchically and multi-disciplined (for example, mechanical and software) ordered objects in SAP S/4HANA Cloud. Additionally, the definition and maintenance of product structures is optimized for SAP S/4HANA Cloud. Product structures manage product variant structures in early development phases without the need to employ material master data. Simulation functions enable analysis of the product structures for various purposes.

Key Process Steps Covered

  • Create product master of type "Configurable Material" - MDS
  • Setup high level product configuration
  • Create product structure from template
  • Define product family
  • Manage date effectivities
  • Create item variants
  • Manage variant effectivities (optional)
  • Manage software effectivities
  • Manage software variant
  • Add software and document info record with version
  • Manage simulation
  • Select filter/simulation
  • Simulate product structure
  • Add components to item variant (optional)
  • Filter and review product structure
  • 2G5 - Check software compatibility
  • Release for handover

Benefits

  • Structure a product as a set of hierarchically ordered objects
  • Optimize the definition and maintenance of product structures
  • Get state-of-the-art variant configuration and variant management capabilities
  • Provide comprehensive product simulation capabilities
  • Use continuous modeling right from an early design phase until start of production
  • Enable multi-level product structure maintenance