Life cycle profile
Definition
Template for the lifetime of a product of project, from the start in engineering/design or in SD, throughout the production, right up to the maintenance.
Use
In Customizing Configuration Management you define life cycle profiles (Work step Application control ® Define life cycle profile).
If you create a
Configuration definition, you assign a life cycle profile to it. In so doing, you determine the sequence of the life cycle phases the configuration definition objects go through.Structure
A life cycle profile contains
A life cycle profile contains those life cycle phases that, from the point of view of the company, are relevant for a specific product or project.
The phase transitions determine the sequence the individual phases go through.
Example: Life Cycle Profile with Three Phases
Company-Specific Life Cycle Profiles
In your company, you may need different life cycle profiles for various products or projects. This is why you can define several life cycle profiles in Customizing. In each life cycle profile, you use only those life cycle phases that, from the point of view of your company, are relevant for a product or project. If, for example, you simply buy a product, create a configuration definition for this product with another life cycle profile to that for a product that you produce and sell yourself.
As an automobile manufacturer, you use, for example, a life cycle profile with the following phases for the configuration definition of your vehicles:
Some assemblies, such as the clutch you design yourself, but they are produced by a supplier. You send the supplier an exact description of the product that you want them to produce and on receipt, you check whether the clutch meet your specifications. For the configuration definitions of these assemblies, you use a life cycle profile with the following phases:
Multiple Phase Transitions
You can define that within a life cycle profile, several different transitions between certain life cycle phases are possible. In this way, you can, for example, skip certain life cycle phases as required.
In the following example, a transition from phase 1 into phase 2 and from phase 2 into phase 3 is possible. You also have the option to skip directly from phase 1 into phase 3.
