Planned/Active Article Hierarchy (SAP Library

Planned/Active Article Hierarchy

Use

When you create an article hierarchy the status is always "planned". Once the hierarchy planning is closed, the hierarchy can be activated with transaction MATGRP05. After the relevant checks, the status of the article hierarchy is set to active.

Change documents can be created for every change in an active article hierarchy. Using transaction SM30 in the table MATGRP_CUST, assign them the indicator for change documents.

Procedure

Make changes to an active article hierarchy as follows:

Transfer a copy of the planned changes to an active hierarchy

As the revision process for a hierarchy can stretch out over a lengthy period of time, it is possible to execute changes to a hierarchy, which are not immediately active. It is therefore possible to have planned changes that you activate when you want.

To do this, you proceed as follows:

With transaction MATGRP01, create a new hierarchy and give the planned hierarchy a hierarchy ID. You can use the hierarchy ID of an already active hierarchy as a template. You can make changes to this copy of the hierarchy without these changes being immediately active. If, for example the planning of a structure is closed, the changes can be copied into an active hierarchy. These changes are automatically updated to other structures (for example, product hierarchy).

Using transaction MATGRP06, copy the changes you made to the hierarchy to another hierarchy, specifying the node of the planned hierarchy.

Specify the hierarchy ID of the active hierarchy (or use the suggested hierarchy ID) to which the changes are to be copied. The number of nodes in the planned hierarchy must be the same as the number of nodes in the active hierarchy. This means that the changes underneath the node of the planned hierarchy will be copied underneath the corresponding node in the active hierarchy. If there is no corresponding node in the active hierarchy, the node of the planned hierarchy is inserted into the active hierarchy, underneath the corresponding node (parent node).

If no parent node exists in the active hierarchy for the node to be copied, an error message is issued.

You copy article changes from a planned article hierarchy to an active article hierarchy in the same way. If, for example, a new article is assigned to the node of a planned article hierarchy, this article can be copied to an active article hierarchy.

Changes to an active article hierarchy:

You also have the option to make changes to an active article hierarchy with transaction MATGRP02.

Each of these changes immediately takes effect on the structures and applications that are integrated with this hierarchy.

If, for example, a planned article hierarchy exists for an active article hierarchy and it is supposed to contain the changes made to the active hierarchy, the changes in the active article hierarchy must be carried out manually in the planned article hierarchy.

In the active hierarchy you can change the article assignment or the properties of nodes (role and strategy), but you cannot reassign or delete nodes.

Deactivated hierarchy

You can set the status of an active article hierarchy to "deactivated" using transaction MATGRP07 in the maintenance screen of properties of a hierarchy.

You cannot change assignments and attributes of a deactivated hierarchy. You can only display or delete a deactivated hierarchy.