Decide if you want to publish an as-designed or as-planned product structure. By default, Windchill ESI publishes the as-designed view of a product structure. However, Windchill PDMLink supports the ability to manage plant-specific views of product structures. Therefore, it is possible to do manufacturing planning within Windchill PDMLink and publish the as-planned product structures directly to the plants in your MES distribution target. Before installing and configuring Windchill ESI, you should decide whether you want to do manufacturing planning inWindchill PDMLink or in your MES distribution target.