Purpose

The purpose of this page is to provide useful information on managing PDS in the SAP Master Data

Overview

PDS is described as Structure that contains the master data for planning in SAP APO. Production data structures are differentiated by the following:
Origin:
Generated from iPPE data (product structure, process structure, factory layout)
Generated from R/3 data (classic master data such as BOM, routing, and recipe)
In both cases, the production version provides the basis for generating the production data structure.
Application:
DP
SNP
CTM
PP/DS
The production data structure is used as a source of supply in APO.

The main transaction for viewing PDS is /N/SAPAPO/CURTO_SIMU

Related Content

Related Documents

SCN Wiki Calculating Bucket Resource Consumption During PDS Explosion in PPDS
SCN Wiki CURTO_SIMU: Displaying the PDS Cluster Data in the Debugger 

Related SAP Notes/KBAs

1751411 - How to create a PDS via BAPI in the SCM System or externally