Report Management 
Report Management
Purpose
This component leads you through the individual work steps required to manage reports from report generation to report release.
Features
The generated substance reports contain all substance-related data and phrases for a particular language and usage. All other current parameters are generated later during shipping. You can use user exits to control the parameter values determined by the R/3 System during the process, and you can overwrite them manually in report management if necessary.
In Customizing for Product Safety, you can vary the status sequence the reports must follow. In this way, you can define different control regimes in report management through which a report must pass before it is released for shipping. You use the
Generation Variant to determine which statuses a report must acquire in the status sequence (see Report Status Network).Version numbers are assigned to reports to determine if a report was changed in a way that is relevant or not to its predecessor. In updated reports, the changed substance data is displayed in a different color, thereby providing an instant overview of all relevant changes.
The R/3 System ensures that when changes are made to substance or phrase data, new report requests are created automatically for the reports affected by these changes.
You can compare any two reports and display the differences between them using a link between your system and a suitable display application (Word, Adobe File Utilities, for instance).