Revision Level (SAP Library - Engineering Change Management (LO-ECH))

Revision Level

You can identify material or document changes that are made with reference to a change number by the use of revision levels.
When you want to process the BOMs for these materials or documents at a later date, you can find and call them using either the change number or the revision level.

Requirements in Customizing

You can make the required settings for revision levels in Customizing for Logistics - General ® Engineering Change Management:

Set up control data. You can activate the revision level here and specify how it should be assigned.

You decide, for example, whether the user is entitled to assign the revision level (external assignment) or whether the system automatically allocates the next revision level from the predefined revision level sequence (internal assignment).

Define revision level sequence for materials or documents

You can define a different sequence for the revision levels of an object.

System Checks

When a revision level is assigned, the system determines:

the revision levels that have already been assigned

the predefined sequence for the revision levels

the next available revision level

Revision level assignment depends on the settings in Customizing:

For external revision level assignment, you see the next available revision level as a default value, but you can overwrite it with any other value you wish.
For internal revision level assignment, you see a dialog box telling you which revision level is being assigned.

Requirements in the Change Master Record

Before you can assign a revision level to a material or document for a particular change number, the following requirements must be met in the change master:

For the Material or Document object type, the Object type active for change number and Management record required for each object indicators must be set.

A management record must exist for the object concerned.
The management record can either be created manually in the change master, or it can be generated automatically by the system (Indicator: Object management record generated). If the object management record is generated automatically, the system creates the record automatically as soon as you process the material or document with reference to the change number.

If you want to assign the revision level with reference to an engineering change request (that is, a change master with a defined change type), the engineering change request must have been approved and converted to an engineering change order (system status).

The assignment of a revision level to the processing status of an object (material or document) is unique. This means that only one revision level (for example, 02) can be assigned to an object that you want to change with one change number (for example, CHG-0011).
A new revision level can only be assigned to a change that you make with reference to a different change number.

Additional Checks

The following additional checks are possible:

In Customizing for Engineering Change Management, under Set up control data, you can define additional checks that take place when a revision level is created or changed in the Date shift dataset.