Your company has several production locations throughout the world. These do not have their own engineering/design departments, but are supplied with data from the engineering/design department at the group headquarters. SAP ERP systems are installed at the respective production locations. As team lead in the engineering/design department, you are responsible for distributing the master data. To do this, you are looking for a tool you can use to distribute all the data relevant to the product.
The SAP tool "Application Link Enabling" could be the solution.
But before you start the distribution, you habe to check with data have to be distributed and which data already exist inside target system.
You get this information using the product structure browser. Inside the product structure browser, you can define a filter, which reduces the display of object dependencies and makes it possible to define several target systems.
Source and target system are then displayed inside one screen of browser. The target systems are predefined inside RFC destinations. After activation of the filter, system dependent trees are displayed for your engineering and production systems.
Using the system independent view, you are able to decide which data are missing inside the target system and have to be copied out of the source system.
Watch the following video, which explains the basics of master data distribution.