Defining a Warranty Counter 

Prerequisites

Warranty counters are normally defined by your system administrator at the time of setting up your system. If you have the necessary authorizations, you can create warranty counters using the Classification System.

Procedure

  1. Create the warranty counter as a characteristic in the Classification System.

To do this, choose Logistics ® Central functions ® Classification ® Characteristic ® Create.
  1. Enter the name of the characteristic and choose Create.

The screen Create Characteristic is displayed.
  1. Enter a short text for the characteristic in the block Basic data.

In the block Formatting, enter a numeric data type.
  1. Choose Continue.
  2. Enter the number of characters, decimal places and the unit of measure for the warranty counter (for example, the unit Year for the characteristic Warranty period).
  1. Save the characteristic.

For more information, see the SAP documentation on Characteristics under CA-Classification.
  1. Define the warranty counter in Customizing.

Plant Maintenance and Customer Service ® Master Data in Plant Maintenance and Customer Service ® Basic Settings ® Warranties ® Define warranty counter.

Only warranty counters that are entered in Customizing are recognized as valid counter types by the system.