In Configuration Management you collect the objects that are to be made available to the participants in a CEP process. As the owner of a process you place all the objects (for instance materials, documents, WBS elements) that are relevant to a product or project in a particular life cycle phase in a configuration folder.

When the product or project moves to a new life cycle phase, you create a new configuration folder (successor folder) for this phase. You can create several folders for one life cycle phase, each representing a different version .

For detailed information , refer to the documentation for Configuration Management (LO-CM)

For the CEP process you must carry out the following steps in the correct order:

1. Create a configuration folder

2. Assign a controlled object A controlled object can be a project definition, a WBS element or a material. In this step you select a controlled object and assign it to the configuration folder.

3. Select substructures of the controlled object Subordinate objects and substructures (for instance documents, BOMs, WBS elements, and activities) describe the controlled object in detail. In this step you specify which objects or substructures are supplied for processing to the participants.
4. Attach task descriptions Here you describe the tasks that you require the participants to carry out.

5. Publish the folder When you publish a folder, it is frozen for changes. At the same time an XML file is generated with which it is possible to send folder objects via the Internet. It is also used to save data on the participant’s PC.
6. Notify participants You specify the participants, define certain parameters, and sent the notifications from Configuration Management.

The participants are informed automatically by e-mail that a configuration folder is available for processing on the In ternet server, whose add r ess (URL) is included in the e-mail.