Understanding the PDX Integration

You can use PeopleSoft Manufacturing to receive item, revision, and manufacturing bill of material (BOM) information from external applications. This integration uses the product data exchange (PDX) version 1.0 XML format.

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The term PDX refers to the XML files containing change order information that is sent from the product life cycle management application to PeopleSoft.

PeopleSoft Manufacturing integrates with PLM applications enabling you to send item, revision, and manufacturing BOM information using change orders.

Specifically, the PeopleSoft system integrates with engineering change order (ECO) and manufacturer change order (MCO) subclasses of PDX to support inbound item (part) and BOM information into PeopleSoft Manufacturing. This integration is one-way only (inbound to PeopleSoft), and supports one PLM system to one PeopleSoft system (single business unit).

In general, implementing a PLM integration implies that the PLM system is the master data source for items, revisions, and BOMs instead of PeopleSoft. Therefore, when this integration is implemented, use PeopleTools security to severely restrict access (disallow changes) to item, revision, and BOM maintenance functions within PeopleSoft. Generally, these maintenance functions should only be done in PeopleSoft for the data elements that are not maintained through the PLM system, for example, costing, purchasing or planning attributes on the Item Master. This maintenance depends on the specific implementation of the PLM application, as well as any modifications that you have made.

This diagram illustrates the flow of data between PeopleSoft Manufacturing and a PDX message using the PeopleSoft Integration Broker to transform the HTTP data to PeopleSoft-formatted XML data and apply the item changes, revisions, and BOM changes to PeopleSoft Manufacturing: