SAP Business Content for SAP Product Lifecycle Management

Use

Business Context Viewer (BCV) is delivered with predefined business content for SAP Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM). You can use this business content as it is, or modify it according to your business needs.

Prerequisites

The business content for PLM is delivered in the following business configuration sets (BC sets):

PLM Content General (/PLMI/BCV_BC_PLM_GENERAL)
PLM Content for BI (/PLMI/BCV_BC_PLM_BI)
PLM Content for PDCE (/PLMI/BCV_BC_PLM_PDCE)

To use the business content, you must have activated the BC set relevant to you.

To use BI or PDCE search connectors and queries based on these, you must be working in a BI or PDCE system, respectively.

Features

Predefined Search Connectors

Business Object	Search Connector ID	Data Provision Technology	Description
Material	1PLMMAT_MATCOST01	BI	Material Cost Analysis Search via BI
Material	1PLMMAT_STOCK01	BI	Stock Overview Search via BI
Material	1PLMMAT_QN01	BAPI	Quality Notification Search via BAPI
Material	1PLMMAT_SALESORDER01	BAPI	Sales Order Search for Customer via BAPI
Material	1PLMMAT_SALESORDER02	BAPI	Sales Order Search for Material via BAPI
Material	1PLMMAT_MAT01	Enterprise Search	Material Search via Enterprise Search
Material	1PLMMAT_MAT02	SES	Material Search via Search Engine Service (SES)
Material	1PLMMAT_STOCK_ERP	Classic InfoSet	Stock for Material from Local ERP System
Material	1PLMMAT_PRODORD	BAPI	Production Orders for Material
Material	1PLMMAT_PURCHDORD	BAPI	Purchase Orders for Material
Material	1PLMMAT_PDCE	BAPI	PDCE Product Costing Data for Material
Material	1PLMMAT_WHERE_USED	ES	Material Where Used in BOM
Material	1PLMMAT_WORKFLOW	Workflow	Workflows for Material
Product Structure Management (PSM)	PSM can use all of the Material search connectors above
Product Structure Management (PSM)	1PLMPSM_WORKFLOW1	Workflow	Workflows for Product Structure Component
Product Structure Management (PSM)	1PLMPSM_WORKFLOW2	Workflow	Workflows for Product Structure Variant
Document	1PLMDOC_WORKFLOW	Workflow	Workflows for Document
Document	1PLMDOC_LASTRLSD	BAPI	Last Released Version for Document
Change Number	1PLMECN_WORKFLOW	Workflow	Workflows for Change Number

For more information about search connectors, see Search Connector.

Predefined Queries

Business Object	Query ID	Search Connector ID	Description
Material	1PLMMAT_MAT01_MAIN_IN_ATTR	1PLMMAT_MAT01	Material (via Enterprise Search) Query - Main Input Field
Material	1PLMMAT_MAT02_STANDARD	1PLMMAT_MAT02	Material (via SES) Standard Query
Material	1PLMMAT_MATCOST01_STANDARD	1PLMMAT_MATCOST01	Material Cost Analysis (via BI) Standard Query
Material	1PLMMAT_QN01_STANDARD	1PLMMAT_QN01	Quality Notification (via BAPI) Standard Query
Material	1PLMMAT_SALESORDER01_STANDARD	1PLMMAT_SALESORDER01	Sales Order for Customer (BAPI) Standard Query
Material	1PLMMAT_SALESORDER02_STANDARD	1PLMMAT_SALESORDER02	Sales Order for Material (BAPI) Standard Query
Material	1PLMMAT_STOCK01_STANDARD	1PLMMAT_STOCK01	Stock Overview (via BI) Standard Query
Material	1PLMMAT_STOCK_FROM_ERP	1PLMMAT_STOCK_ERP	Stock Overview (via Classic Infoset) from ERP
Material	1PLMMAT_PRODORD1	1PLMMAT_PRODORD	Production Orders - Yield/ Scrap Qty by Plant
Material	1PLMMAT_PRODORD2	1PLMMAT_PRODORD	Production Orders - Overview
Material	1PLMMAT_PURCHORD1	1PLMMAT_PURCHORD	Purchase Orders for Material - Price
Material	1PLMMAT_PURCHORD2	1PLMMAT_PURCHORD	Purchase Orders for Material - Quantity by Plant
Material	1PLMMAT_PDCE	1PLMMAT_PURCHORD	PDCE Product Costing Data for Material
Material	1PLMMAT_WHERE_USED	1PLMMAT_WHERE_USED	Material Where Used in BOM
Material	1PLMMAT_WORKFLOW	1PLMMAT_WORKFLOW	Workflows for Material
Product Structure Management (PSM)	PSM can use all of the Material queries above
Product Structure Management (PSM)	1PLMPSM_WORKFLOW1	1PLMPSM_WORKFLOW1	Workflows for Product Structure Component
Product Structure Management (PSM)	1PLMPSM_WORKFLOW2	1PLMPSM_WORKFLOW2	Workflows for Product Structure Variant
Document	1PLMDOC_WORKFLOW	1PLMDOC_WORKFLOW	Workflows for Document
Document	1PLMDOC_LASTRLSD	1PLMDOC_LASTRLSD	Last Released Version for Document
Change Number	1PLMECN_WORKFLOW	1PLMECN_WORKFLOW	Workflows for Change Number

For more information about BCV queries, see BCV Query.

Predefined Query Views

In the Query Views accordion item of the side panel, you can find the following predefined query views:

Business Object	Query View ID	Description
Document	1PLMDOC_LASTRLSD_QV	Last Released Version for Document
Document	1PLMDOC_WORKFLOW_STD_VIEW	Workflows for Document Standard View
Change Number	1PLMECN_WORKFLOW_STD_VIEW	Workflows for Change Number
Material	1PLMMAT_MAT01_MAIN_IN_ATTR_QV	Material (via Enterprise Search) View
Material	1PLMMAT_MAT02_STANDARD_VIEW	Material Data (BContent from SES)
Material	1PLMMAT_MATCOST01_STANDARD_VIEW	Material Cost Analysis Search via BI
Material	1PLMMAT_PDCE	PDCE Product Costing Data for Material
Material	1PLMMAT_PRODORD1_QV	Production Orders - Yield/ Scrap Qty by Plant
Material	1PLMMAT_PRODORD2_QV	Production Orders - Overview
Material	1PLMMAT_PURCHORD1_QV	Purchase Orders for Material - Price
Material	1PLMMAT_PURCHORD2_QV	Purch. Ord. for Material - Qty by Plant
Material	1PLMMAT_QN01_STANDARD_VIEW	Quality Notifications (BC from BAPI)
Material	1PLMMAT_SALESORDER02_STD_VIEW	Sales Order (via BAPI) Standard QV
Material	1PLMMAT_STOCK01_STANDARD_QV	Stock Overview (via BI) Standard View
Material	1PLMMAT_STOCK_FROM_ERP_QV	Material Stock ERP (BCont. from Infoset)
Material	1PLMMAT_WHERE_USED_QV	Material Where Used in BOM
Material	1PLMMAT_WORKFLOW_QV	Workflows for Material
Product Structure Management (PSM)	PSM can use all of the Material query views above
Product Structure Management (PSM)	1PLMPSM_WORKFLOW1_QV	Workflows for Product Structure Comp.
Product Structure Management (PSM)	1PLMPSM_WORKFLOW2_QV	Workflows for Product Structure Variant

Predefined Dashboard

In the Dashboards accordion item of the side panel, you can find the following predefined dashboard:

Context Key	Dashboard ID	Description
/PLMU/MATERIAL	1PLMMAT_STD_DB	PLM Material Standard Dashboard

Predefined Overviews

In the Overview accordion item of the side panel, you can find the following predefined overviews:

Context Key	Overview ID	Description
/PLMU/DOCUMENT	1PLMDOC_STANDARD	SAP Standard Overview
/PLMU/ECN	1PLMECN_STANDARD	SAP Standard Overview
/PLMU/EDESK	1PLMEDK_STANDARD	SAP Standard Overview
/PLMU/MATBOM	1PLMBOM_STANDARD	SAP Standard Overview
/PLMU/MATERIAL	1PLMMAT_STANDARD	SAP Standard Overview
/PLMU/RECORD	1PLMECR_STANDARD	SAP Standard Overview

More Information

The PLM Web UI also provides predefined business content for Recipe Development. For more information, see SAP Business Content for Recipe Development.