Very often you have a large number of original documents, of both a technical and an accounting nature, for your planned investments. You want to manage these documents for appropriation requests and their variants as centrally as possible. Therefore, the documents can be stored digitally in a document management system.

Appropriation request variants share an interface with the central document management function in the SAP R/3 System. You access it in the master data transaction for appropriation request variants on the Variants tab page. This interface allows you to link any number of documents, for example those listed below, to your appropriation request variants:

• Original documents

• Text files

• Blueprints

• Spreadsheets

The documents are stored (either locally or centrally) according to the specifications in central document management of the SAP R/3 System.