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Essential SAP Tutorial

Product Structure Management (PSM)

Steps for Creating a Product Structure in SAP

By Teofil Sawickyj

Tutorial Goal

Create a basic product structure in the PSM module. Product structures are used to support the product development

process. PSM can manage the product structures that contain many components and their variants.

Product structures can be built and maintained without any associated material masters

Discover the various fundamental node types that are required in the construction of the product structure

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Select Product Structures

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Under the Product Structure heading choose: Create Product Structure

Select a Node Type

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Select Product Family for Node Type. This node represents the top level of the product structure and defines the product that you are developing.

Select a Node

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Enter Street_Bike in the Node field. Street Bike is a member of the Product Family.

Select Class_BikeX for the Class

Create Product View

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Highlight product structure Street_Bike

Select the Items button

Select Create

Create Product View

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Select View (PVS) from Node Type

Enter the Name for the Node (FRAME COMPONENTS)

Enter the Description (FRAME COMPONENTS)

Create a Product Item

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Highlight product view FRAME COMPONENTS

Select the Items button

Select Create

Select a Node Type

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Select Product Item from Node Type

Enter the Name for the Node (FRAME)

Enter the Desc (FRAME)

Product Structure Constructed

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Simple Product Structure

Conclusion

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User can create a simple product structure in PSM

User recognizes the basic node types in the structure:

Product Family

Product View

Product Item

User understands this product structure only consists of the basic elements and is not a complete product structure

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