PDS,PPM,supply chain model,production version in R/3

[Former Member]

Dear Guys,

can some one help me to find the key difference between

1)PDS,PPM,Supply chain Model and production version in R/3

Thanks

Raj

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

incidentally PDS and PPM and model are more relevant to APO. Typically, BOMs and Recipes combine to form PPMS as it is transferred to APO

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

One major difference between PDS & PPM is that PPMs can be edited in APO whereas PDS cannot be modified in APO. Any changes required for PDS needs to be done to the relevant R/3 master data and then CIFed to APO.

Choice PDS v/s PPM?

Functionally both are fine and can be used. However SAP recommends using PDS since it will not support any new enhancements for PPMs going forward. For some reason they want to encourage use of PDS rather than PPMs.

- Srinidhi

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Just to add few more things to what Srinidhi said, you cannot use variants in PPM making it mandatory if you are using DP-CBF. Unlike PPM, for PDS you also you need a production version to be defined in R/3 system for that material in its material master apart from just having BOM and Routing.

Hope this helps.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

The Difference between PDS and PPM is PPM doesn't support the Variant Configuration and Supply Chain Engineer. where as PDS support VC and SCE. working in PPM is not tough. PDS is kind of complicated.

[Former Member]

for PDS vs PPM please check OSS notes

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