Indicating the Relevant Objects (SAP Library - Configuration Management (LO-CM))

Indicating the Relevant Objects

Use

You indicate an object as relevant for configuration management if it plays an important role in the configuration of a product, and you want to retain the processing status of the object in a baseline.

Example

For example, the configuration of the assembly "Pump P-100" is of particular importance in the product "Turbine T-30". Therefore, you indicate the material P-100 as being relevant for configuration management.

For baselining you use this indicator to determine whether the system:

Fixes the master record (material master record or document info record)

Finds other objects that better describe the relevant object (BOMs and object links)

Prerequisite

In Customizing, you have set the indicator Relevant for Configuration Management for the explosion profile.

You can find additional information in Customizing, under Configuration Management ® Application Control ® Define Explosion Profile.

Features

From release 4.6C, you can indicate the objects of the following object types as being relevant to configuration management:

Materials

See: Maintaining the CM-Relevant Attributes

Documents

In Customizing for document types, you determine whether documents with a specific document type are relevant to configuration management. If you create a document info record, the system copies the value of the relevancy indicator from the document type as the default value. You can override this value in the document info record.

Note

No indicator is needed for BOMs. If a material is indicated as being relevant, the system automatically copies its BOM into the baseline, provided it has a BOM whose usage is planned for the current life-cycle phase (see: Determining the Structure Information Using BOMs).