Creation of Service Specifications Through Configuration 

Use

This function facilitates the structuring of complex service specifications during the processes of planning and recording external services. The system supports you in selecting precisely the subset of services that is relevant to your needs from a more comprehensive set of model specifications.

Prerequisites

You must have created a configurable set of model service specifications with object dependencies. To do this, you use the components CA Classification System and LO Variant Configuration.

For more information, refer to CA Classification System, CA Characteristics and LO Variant Configuration.

The Configuration at time of service selection indicator must be set on the header screen of the model specifications.

Activities

Linking Specialized Knowledge to Model Specifications

  1. Create a set of model service specifications with the maximum range of services to be performed.
  2. Set the Configuration at time of service selection indicator on the header screen of the model specifications.

    3. For more information, refer to Creating Model Service Specifications.

  3. In the classification system (Logistics ® Central functions ® Classification system ® Characteristic ® Create), create characteristics and store characteristic values uniquely defining the services created in the model specifications.
  4. Assign the characteristics and their values to a class of type 301 (model specifications).

    5. The instances of the service characteristics determine which service lines are selected with which quantities when service specifications are created.

  5. In variant configuration (Logistics ® Central functions ® Variant configuration ® Configuration profile ® Create), create a configuration profile for the object Model specifications and assign the class created to this profile.
  6. Create object dependencies for each service line in the model specifications by clicking . Click to assign already existing object dependencies to a service. In doing this, you create rules that lead – depending on the characteristic values – to the selection of the individual service lines.

Configuring Service Specifications via Service Selection

  1. Start the configuration process in the service specifications of a document by clicking Service selection.
  2. Choose a configurable set of model service specifications.

    3. The Configuration at time of service selection indicator must be set in the model specifications.

  3. An editor guides you with suggestions through the characteristic value process to precisely that subset of services that you need to compile complete specifications for your concrete project. The system automatically determines which services are involved from the underlying object dependencies.

If you wish to change field values during configuration, you must create an object characteristic that points to the fields of table ESLL.

For more information on the creation of object characteristics, see Creating Reference Characteristics.
  1. The system creates a concrete set of service specifications.

Example

A set of model service specifications comprises the entire range of services that may be required in pipe-laying projects.

Within this complete range, there are services that are mutually dependent or mutually exclusive.