Cross-Application Mass Maintenance (CA-GTF-MS) (SAP Library - Cross-Application Mass Maintenance (CA-GTF-MS))

Cross-Application Mass Maintenance (CA-GTF-MS)

Purpose

Mass maintenance is a generic (cross-application) tool that can be used for the following purposes:

To change large quantities of data

Here, there are the following differences for the individual maintenance of objects in a specific application:

The user selects the field to be changed from a list.
The consistency checks occur collectively when saving the changes and not simply when entering or changing a value.
Changes can be made simultaneously to several objects.

Mass maintenance is therefore particularly useful if you have to adapt existing data stocks to a changed situation.
Example: A purchasing group is taken over by another, and in a particular plant, you have to assign all materials that were assigned to the old purchasing group, to the new purchasing group.

To create new data

In some situations it is not possible to change existing values, but to create new data instead (such as if you want to determine an additional unit of measure for a material). For more information, see Creating new records.

Implementation Considerations

Mass maintenance enables many objects to be changed simultaneously. This tool should therefore only be used by users with the relevant experience. These people should also know how to use the field names and tables in the R/3 System.

Features

Mass maintenance can be carried out in the following modes:

In the dialog

In this mode you should only change small amounts of data.

In the background

If you want to change alot of objects at the same time, you use this mode to reduce the system load. For more information, see Background processing.

In the mixed mode

You start in the dialog and then switch to actually carrying out changes but in background processing. For more information, see Making mass changes.

If you regularly have to carry out similar changes to data, you can create a variant. A variant is always required if you have to carry out mass maintenance in the background. For more information, see Variants.

The system records all changes carried out as well as any possible errors in a log.

Constraints

You can only use the mass maintenance tool in applications that support it. The tool is currently supported by the following applications:

Application	Additional information in the SAP library
Appropriation request	IM – Investment Management under Mass maintenance
Material master (Retail)	LO - SAP Retail under Material master data
Business partner	LO – Business partner master data
Customer master	LO – Business partner master data
G/L Accounts	FI – General ledger accounting under G/L account master data
Material master (Industry)	LO – Material master
Profit Center	EC – Profit Center Accounting under Display/change profit center (Collective processing)
Purchase orders	MM - Purchasing under Mass maintenance of purchase orders
Purchase requisitions	MM - Purchasing under Mass maintenance of purchase requisitions
Purchasing info record	MM - Purchasing under Mass maintenance of info records
Rental units	RE – Real estate management under Mass maintenance of rental units
Sales orders	SD – Sales and distribution under Sales order
Vendor master	LO – Business partner master data