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2 system PLM setup question - Connecting to another ECC system for master data

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I have been tasked with setting up the latest version of PLM in our environment.  We have a free standing PLM Server (ECC 6.0 EHP7, SP2 with PLMWUI 747, SP3) that we would like to connect to another ECC system (ECC 6.0 EHP5, SP4 with PLMWUI 701, SP4) for its master data.  In trolling around google and the marketplace, there isn't any setup guide or anything that really explains what the options are.  Does anyone know what the possible setup options are or even better provide links to documents that show how to set this up?  Can PLM be setup in the way that we want it to be?

Thanks in advance.

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ulf_petzel
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Hi Steve,

well, connecting a central SAP PLM system to ERP systems (irrespectively if PLM Web UI capabilities are enabled there or not) is nothing new. Typically for feeding master data to ERP you would use ALE technology, e.g. leveraging the SAP PLM Product Data Replication capabilities.

PLM Product Data Replication - SAP Library

I am not sure if you want to also have a feed from ERP to the PLM server as well?

Above scenario does work for any system, even down to SAP ERP 4.6x and lower.

Regards, Ulf.

TudorRiscutia
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Hello Steve,

Unfortunately there isn't a lot of PLM documentation available.

I'm not sure I really understand what you need, but in essence, the PLM framework was developed using the SPI technology. That is, the Service Provider Infrastructure, which is a technology to split the UI from the business logic behind it. The idea is, in the end, you can have one single DB, connected to multiple systems and different types of UIs. (you can find some more details here: http://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/SPI/Home)

As far as I know, you have to do some customization in SPRO and maintain views /PLMB/V_RFC_DEST and /PLMB/V_RFC_LSYS. Everything else is done by the PLM framework via RFC connections.

Hope this helps you...

Tudor