It is a family of products
- It is a Code assigned to the materials.
- It aggregates the materials with similar characteristics.
- Material link to PIF is done via the Product hierarchy.
To display the product hierarchy use the table PF2 - Table ZZRT179V - Product hierarchies
The Product Hierarchy is stored in the view "Basic data 1" or the material master data.
It is consistent with the codification of the reporting profit center that is stored in the view "Costing 1" and contain the corresponding PIF code
For instance the product hierarchy of the material 31859 is ABBHE and its profit center is F47ABBXXI2 where ABB is the PIF.
