PLM-Forumsplit - Please ensure you are using the right forum

[former_member218191]

UPDATE (December 11th, 2007):

We have now:

PLM

DMS

cProjects / cFolders

PS

forums - posts will be moved to the right forum.

Please ensure your are opening a new thread in the right forum

UPDATE (September 4th, 2007):

Dear all,

First of all - thanks a lot for the lively discussion about the PLM Forumsplit and all the useful input and feedback.

Based on your input we'll soon create new SDN forums for the larger PLM solution components with a huge customer base. We'll update you again as soon as the new forums are available.

Today in the PLM Forum all questions regarding Product Lifecycle Management development and implementation are discussed.

Industry specific questions are welcomed too, as well as questions to the following SAP PLM solution components:

Document Management (CA-DMS)

CAD Desktop (CA-CAD)

Classification (CA-CL)

Variant Configurtaion (LO-VC)

Lifecycle Data Managemenet with:

-Engineering Change Management (LO-ECH)

-Mass Maintenance (CA-GTF-MS)

-Product and Process Modelling (PLM-PPM)

-Product Data Management (LO-PDM, CA-GTF-UPS)

-Material Master (LO-MD-MM),

-Bill of Material (LO-MD-BOM), Routings and

-Engineering Workbench (PP-PD-RTG, LO-EWB)

-Integr. Product&Process Engineering iPPE (AP-PPE)

Quality Management (QM), Auditmanagement (CA-AUD, CRM-AUD)

Recipe Management (PLM-RM)

Environment Health and Safety (EH&S)

Project System (PS)

cFolders (PLM-CFO)

cProjects (PLM-CPR)

Questions regarding Plant Maintenance (PM) or Customer Service (CS) are discussed in the Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) forum.

Yours sincerely,

Marcus Wagler

Original Message:

Dear Customers,

we are currently about to discuss a split of the PLM forum in subfolders/subforums because of the mass of components that are wrapped up in PLM.

We want to know which structure you would prefer as a user of this forum.

The aim is to increase the usability of the forum and to decrease the time to find the right thread.

some possible examples:

PLM (using the names)

- Material Master

- Classicifaction

- cFolders

PLM (using the components)

- LO-MD-MM

- CA-CL

- PLM-CFO

PLM (more general attempt)

- LDM

- EAM

feel free to make own suggestions. I am looking forward to your replies.

faithfully yours

Marcus Wagler

Message was edited by:

Marcus Wagler

[Former Member]

SAP-EHS should be a separate forum...because it contains lots of components like product safety, dangerous goods mgmt, waste mgmt, industrial hygiene and safety, occupational health and safety. Also there are some other area like global label mgmt, hzardous substance mgmt etc....

So it should be separate and dedicated for EHS consultant...

-Ram

[Former Member]

Hi

I would suggest something like

PLM - Material Master

PLM - Classification

PLM - cFolders

PLM - Project System

PLM - Quality management+

PLM - Document Management

PLM - Engineering Change Management

PLM - CAD Integrations

friendly regards

Joe Kosterman

[Former Member]

Hi

Forum split is the right option for easy access to the issues related to individual modules.

This will help group issues, allow easy search, and reduce browsing time.

Regards

Amal

[Former Member]

My Suggestion

PLM - Life Cycle Change & Configuration Management

PLM - Engineering Collobration

PLM - Project Management

PLM - Product structure

Regards

Srinivasan V S

[Former Member]

I fully agree with Martina.

[Former Member]

Hello All,

It is a good suggestion to split the PLM in sub area so that it will be useful to search the issue with respective area.I agree with the suggestion made by Martina, Kishore , Sudhakar & others ..I will suggest to add following area also

1. PLM - Plant Maintenace

2. PLM - Interface

Regards

Ashok

[Former Member]

I think splitting by name is better for easier understading. But you can consider using components too as in below format ...

PLM

- Material Master (LO-MD-MM)

- Classicifaction (CA-CL)

- cFolders (PLM-CFO)

In this way customers can familiar to relate names with componenets much better which is referenced in many documents.

Regards

Senthil

[Former Member]

Hi Marcus,

This is my opinion,

- PDM Components

- Project Management

- NPDI & Analytics.

Thanks,

Rajesh.

[Former Member]

According to me

PLM (using the names) is the better way to get the desired and systematic output

- Material Master

- Classicifaction

- cFolders

regards,

punam.gupta

[Former Member]

Yes...This kind of initiative is a long awaited activity.It was really hard to look for particular query because of PLM diversity.

I think, Martina has framed very good structure for splitting the PLM forum.

I will go with it.

Thanks,

Tim

[Former Member]

hi!

PLM (using the names)

- Material Master

- Classicifaction

- cFolders

This will be better

Regards,

sweta

[Former Member]

> PLM (using the names)

> - Material Master

> - Classicifaction

> - cFolders

Great idea... something along the lines of the above would be good...

Cheers,

Lashan

[Former Member]

Where would Document Management end up?

[Former Member]

Hi Marcus,

PLM is soo vast module that it includes right from the Conception/Idea of Product to the End/Death of Product.

in my opinion it should be divided:-

1. PDM - Product Data Management (DMS, ECM/OCM, Classification, IPPE)

2. Projects Systems, CFolders, CProjects, xAPPs, xRPM.

3. Quality Management +

4. Plant Maintenance & Repair Service.

5. Integrations like CAD (AutoCAD, Unigraphics, Pro-E, & PS to Cproj, etc) and Viewers ECL, EAI etc.

It is very much required to split the PLM Forum into atleast 4 part.

Regards

Rehman

[Former Member]

Marcus:

According to my opinion what Rehman Khan as described is good,

because it inculed all the related data.

1. PDM - Product Data Management (DMS, ECM/OCM, Classification, IPPE)

2. Projects Systems, CFolders, CProjects, xAPPs, xRPM.

3. Integrations like CAD (AutoCAD, Unigraphics, Pro-E, & PS to Cproj, etc) and Viewers ECL, EAI etc.

4.Plant Maintenance & Repair Service

5. Quality Management +

Thanks and REgards

sudheer.ram

[Former Member]

Martina's suggestion seems to be the best way forward!

[Former Member]

Hi,

I would also recommend the PLM-Forumsplit as it is a process oriented module rather than R/3 based module. I will recommend the following split will be better,

1. PLM - Project system

2. PLM - Asset life cycle management

3. PLM - Quality management

4. PLM - Environmental Health & Safety

5. PLM - Recipe management

6. PLM - xRPM

9. PLM - Cproject and Cfolder

10. PLM - Material master

11. PLM - Variant configuration

12. PLM - DMS

13. PLM - Classfication

14. PLM - ECM

15. PLM - FICO

Thanks and Regards

Vetrivelan.T.

[Former Member]

Hi,

The idea of splitting the PLM is most welcome.

This should be done as per topics for having more focus

PLM - PS (Project System/Project Management)

PLM - DMS

PLM - Classifications

PLM - xAPPs

PLM - cProjects & cFolders

PLM - Material Master

PLM - Quality

PLM - Enchancements & Developments

PLM - EHS

Venu Gopal Gosala

[Former Member]

Hi,

I would also suggest an own forum for the EH&S module which is also part of the PLM extension. Currently EH&S questions are posted in many different forums (ABAP, BPX, ...), but most of them still in the current PLM forum.

Regards,

Andreas

[Former Member]

Thanks Andreas,

I was about to address the same concern as i have faced difficulty in discussing the problems related to the PLM-EHS module.

Please ensure the earliest split so that we can easily navigate through the site.

[Former Member]

Hi,

I agree with Andreas and Pawan. There should be a dedicated forum for SAP EHS. It would be of immense help and make it very easy to navigate this community network.

Thanks,

Hitanshu

[Former Member]

Hi,

My Suggestion is to split in the following manner:

PLM - Material Master

PLM - Classicifaction

PLM - cFolders

PLM - Project System

PLM - Plant Maintenance

PLM - Customer Services

PLM - Quality management+

PLM - Integration Issues with FI-CO

etc.

[Former Member]

Hi,

The intitiative for spliting the PLM forum is really good step to make SDN forum more systematic & guide for all consultants & Users also.

As Project systems is an important module, let us keep it in different name say PLM-PS so that working will be easier.

Best Regards,

Biplab

[Former Member]

Following can be Forumsplit Structure

PLM-ECM

PLM-DMS

PLM-Classification

PLM-xAPPs

PLM-cProjects & cfolders

PLM-Material Master

PLM-BOM

PLM-enchancements

[Former Member]

Hi All

I am in line with Martina's suggestions. Besides that following is the my proposal

PLM - PS (Project System/Project Management)

PLM - ECM

PLM - DMS

PLM - Classifications

PLM - xAPPs

PLM - cProjects & cFolders

PLM - Material Master

PLM - BOM

PLM - Quality

PLM - Enchancements & Developments

Hope above will be acceptable and request you all to suggest.

One thing I would like to emphasise is that we must have one forum for PLM - PS exclusively. Infact, exclusive PS forums are very rare and to be honest, inspite of working on SAP structures, many of individuals are not aware of existence and part & parcel of "PS Module" within SAP structure.

Enjoy SAP....

Regards,

Sudhakar

[former_member16241]

Hello Markus,

I think that a split into the various PLM components would be great!

I agree with Martina concerning possible folders;

PLM - Material Master

PLM - Classicifaction

PLM - cFolders

PLM - Project System

PLM - Quality management

PLM - Variant Configuration

etc.

This would make it easier to find specific topics and not go through the entire SDN in order to find the correspondent information. I am surprised that this possibility was made accessable to moderators from the beginning on.

Best Regards,

Isabelle

[former_member219195]

I am completely agree with Martina. It is inline with SAP's training courses.

It will give better visibility in terms of topic selection and we can post and find out the thread much more effectively.

[Hunain1]

Hi

I would suggest to go by the SAP's "Training Courses: Consultant Academy: mySAP Business Suite" breakup i.e.

PLM - Life-Cycle Data Management (PDM)

PLM - Project Management (PS)

PLM - Maintenance & Repair

PLM - Quality Management (QM)

Regards

MUHAMMAD HUNAIN AHMED

[Former Member]

I think this is a good initiative to facilitate quick search and catogorization. I also like the below model:

PLM - Material Master

PLM - Classicifaction

PLM - cProjects and cFolders

PLM - Quality management+

PLM - CAD Integration

PLM - XPD / XRPM

Thanks

Chandu

[david_deeg]

Hi,

I would prefer the first option:

PLM (using the names)

- Material Master

- Classicifaction

- cFolders

[Former Member]

Hi all!

I think it is a great idea to split the PLM Forum.

I would suggest something like

PLM - Material Master

PLM - Classicifaction

PLM - cFolders

PLM - Project System

PLM - Quality management+

etc.

Regards

Martina

[Former Member]

I agree with Martina,

PLM - Material Master

PLM - Classicifaction

PLM - cFolders

PLM - Project System

PLM - Quality management+

etc.

wud be good

Kishore

[Former Member]

Hi ,

I agree with model suggested by Martina.

Rgds

Parimal

[Former Member]

Hi,

I agree with the Model suggested by Martina, it will be easy to move forward...

Regards

Vinayak

[former_member845166]

Hi ,

Following will be better:

PLM (using the names)

- Material Master

- Classicifaction

- cFolders

[Former Member]

I think best is split by module with description:

Material Master

Classification

Cfolders

Document Management System

Engineering Change Management