Effective Change Status Selection (SAP Library - Working with Parameter Effectivity)

Effective Change Status Selection

Purpose

If you have assigned values to effectivity parameters, the system determines a development status as described below.

An object (such as a BOM item) can be subject to several changes with reference to different change master records throughout its total life cycle. In practice, it may be the case that several change master records fulfill the parameter variant at the same time. In order to determine just one change status for the object, the system has to decide in the operational areas (for example, material requirements planning) which change status should be selected.

Process Flow

This decision is made according to the following rules:

The system determines all change master records, which have been used to process the object and which are released for the respective operational area.

If a change master record was created without a release key, the change statuses generated with it are released for all areas.

The system only picks out those change master records selected in step 1, which fulfill the parameter variant.

Example

For example, the BOM for material M1 has been processed using two change master records (effectivity type: serial number).

Change Number	Serial Number Interval
N-3108	SN003 - SN200
N-3109	SN201 - SN300

If you enter material number M1 in a sales order item and assign the value "SN099" to the serial number effectivity parameter, the system picks out change master record N-3108.

If the system determines more than one effective change status for an item in steps one and two, it picks out a single change status using a decision model:

If there are several change statuses for an object with reference to different change master records of different effectivity types, then the change master record is selected according to priority.

The system determines the change status that was generated with reference to the change master record with the highest priority.

If there are change statuses with date effectivity (valid-from date) as well as parameter effectivity (for example, serial number interval) for an object, the changes with parameter effectivity have a higher priority.

If there are several change statuses for an object with reference to different change master records of the same effectivity type, then the change master record is selected as follows:

If you have made no additional settings in Customizing, the system automatically determines the change that was made with reference to the change master record that was created last.

If you have activated Rank in Customizing you can enter a rank under header data in the change master record. The system determines the change status that was generated with reference to the change master record with the highest rank.

If you have not entered a rank in a change master record, it then has a lower status than change master records in which a rank has been maintained.

Note

If you override a parameter variant by setting a change number as valid, the system selects the change status that was generated using this change number.

If the system selected a component, which is an assembly, the system repeats the entire operation for the items in the assembly.

This operation can be repeated throughout any number of levels in a multi-level BOM.

Note

If you change the effectivity criteria in a change master record and then create a new parameter variant, the system determines the change statuses according to the new criteria.