Product Structure Template Management (35Q)

S/4 HANA Cloud R&D/Engineering Scope Items

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)

Additional Information

This scope item is excluded from the default activation

This scope item is only available for customers who have licensed these features before SAP S/4HANA Cloud 1908 including maintenance for these features. For further information, see SAP Note 2792363.

Where is Product Structure Template Management(35Q) being used?

This Scope item is used in the following way:

As a core function of Product Lifecycle Management within R&D/Engineering Scope Item Group

Process flow of Product Structure Template Management (35Q)

Find below the process flow of the scope item Product Structure Template Management as it is defined for release s4hc-2111.

Download Process Flow of Best Practice scenario Product Structure Template Management (35Q) - S/4HANA Cloud

Ref: R&D/Engineering of SAP S4HC-2111

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