Set up control data

In this work step, you define central settings for engineering change management:

Effectivity

• Parameter effectivity

In the standard R/3 System, the effectivity of a change is determind by the valid-from date.

You can also activate parameter effectivity, and this define effectivity using effectivity types.

The folowing effectivity types are supported in the standrd R/3 System:

• DATE (time interval)

• SERNR (serial number interval)

You can define other

parameter effectivity.

• Rank active

You define whether you can enter a rank in the change master record (change header).

Revision level

• By activating the revision level you can indicate the different processing statuses of materials and documents.

You can also make the follwoing additional settings:

• You can define an external revision level number assignment for materials.

• You can define that a higher revision level must always be assigned from the predefined revision level sequence. This means that the new revision level always has the highest value.

• You can define automatic assignment for internal revision level assignment.

• If you want the revision levels to be assigned in the predefined sequence, set the Extended sequence check indicator.

Release key

• Activate release procedure

If you only want changes to become effective after they have been released for successive work areas (for example, production), set the Release procedure active indicator. In the change master record (change header), you define which areas the changes are to be taken into account in using the Release key .

• Lock change number

You can use the

Lock change number with release key indicator to define whether change numbers should be locked against changes that have already been released for one or more areas.

• If required, set the follwoing indicators:

• Late packages allowed

• "Always effective" active

Object management record

• Display transaction goes to object maintenance

This indicator is only relevant to BOMs and documents.

You use this indicator to allow you to change BOMs and documents from the object overview (display mode of the change master record).

Change number

If change numbers with alpha fields are also to be checked during external number assignment, set the Number range check for alpha fields indicator.

Date shift

• If the Date shift indicator is set, the protected time interval can be checked when a change master record or a change object is being processed.

• You can determine whether the user receives a warning or an error message.

The base date for the check is the current date. The system calculates the warning or error time that has been entered (in calendar days) from the current date. The key date and all the days before it are counted in the protected time interval (see the example for warning time.

Note:
If you enter a negative value (for example, -10), the system calculates the protected time interval in the past, starting from the valid-from date.

• Warning time in days
  Processing is allowed in this time interval. However, the system sends a warning so that the change objects are checked.

• Error time in days
  Processing is not allowed in this time interval.

• Only error messages (relevant to BOMs and routings)

You use this indicator to control how messages are displayed when a date shift is performed, and due to this date shift, the sequence of effectivity time periods for BOMs and routings changes.

Standard settings

Aktivitäten

Set the control data to meet your requirements.