Changes During Productive Use

Introduction of New Fields

You can add new data fields to existing tables in your live system using prepared enhancements. After you run the enhancement, the fields are available in the given entry transactions. You can:

Add the Classification Key field to documents
Add the Broker field to the business partner item
Activate enhanced revenue distribution based on distribution keys
Prepare for parallel processing of payment card data by adding the fields Subarea, External Key and Transaction ID to the payment card supplement
Add the Bar Code field to the business partner item
Add additional fields to document items for tax calculation in the U.S.A.
Add a comment field for locks
Add fields for subsequent account assignment of business partner items (initial account assignment for profit center, segment, or business area)
Add the contract to the write-off history and tables for the adjustment of receivables

You start these changes in Customizing for Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable under Start of the navigation path Program Enhancements Next navigation step Prepared Enhancements End of the navigation path . For more information, see the documentation on the Customizing activities and the underlying programs.

Setting Data in Newly Added Fields

Programs are available for the following enhancements that you can use in your live system to fill new fields in already existing data records:

Subsequent acccount assignments in business partner items
Contract field in the write-off history
Contract field in the tables of receivables adjustments

In addition, you can add the ID to old provider contract data after an upgrade from SAP enhancement package 6 for SAP ERP 6.0 to SAP enhancement package 7 for SAP ERP 6.0.

To fill the fields, on the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Start of the navigation path Changeovers in Live System End of the navigation path :