PBIM table — PBIM - Independent Requirements Material Header

One row of PBIM represents the basic-data header for an independent requirements object at a material/plant level - created the first time Demand Management generates a planned independent requirement or a planning strategy triggers demand for that material at that plant. The row's only real content is an internally generated planning object number that ties the material/plant to the actual periodic quantities stored in PBED and to the consumption values recorded in PBIC. PBIM never stores a date, a quantity, or a version by itself. Because the object number is created once and rarely removed, a PBIM row surviving in the table does not mean the requirement it once represented is still open, active, or even non-zero; it can equally be a fossil left after a PIR was fully consumed or manually zeroed out.

Always restrict by MANDT first, then by WERKS and MATNR - the table is not enormous but every material that has ever run under a planning strategy or received a manual PIR ends up with a row, so an unrestricted client-wide select is wasteful and unnecessary. PAOBJNR is a technical number generated by the system; nobody knows it in advance, so it is never a usable entry criterion, only an output to carry forward into PBED or PBIC. Do not treat the number of PBIM rows for a plant as a measure of active planning volume - it counts objects ever created, not objects currently carrying open demand.

Symptom: a planner insists a material never had a planned independent requirement, but the stock/requirements list shows historical PIR activity for it. Selection: read PBIM on MATNR and WERKS to get PAOBJNR, then select PBED on that PAOBJNR ordered by date and requirements version. If every quantity field on the PBED rows is zero or the version is inactive, the PIR existed and was later consumed or reduced to zero rather than never having been created - the PBIM header is the leftover proof.

PBIM continues to exist in S/4HANA in the same shape and has not been replaced by a compatibility CDS view the way many transactional tables have. Wherever classic Demand Management - PIR maintenance through the standard planned independent requirement transactions and planning strategies - is still in use, PBIM together with PBED and PBIC remains the unchanged storage layer underneath it, regardless of which newer planning tools sit on top for other scenarios.

Data questions on PBIM belong to the PP demand planning consultant or the MRP controller, since the table is generated purely by system processing of independent requirements rather than by direct user master-data entry. Functional consultants read it to trace requirement history; basis and data governance teams have no reason to touch or steward it directly.

PBED carries the periodic quantities under a PBIM object, and PBIC carries the consumption values posted against those quantities. The header and its periodic data are created and maintained through the standard planned independent requirement transactions (create, change, display) and are consumed by the MRP run, which produces or updates planned orders in PLAF and surfaces the combined demand and supply picture in the stock/requirements list built from MDKP and MDTB.