You can tailor the selection area to meet your individual requirements.

You define user group-specific selection settings in Customizing for Batch Management under Batch Information Cockpit ® Define User Group-Specific Selection.

The following selection criteria are available:

• Material data
• Batch data
• Classification data
• Stock data
• Shelf-life data
• Worklist folder
• Objects with reference to batches (inspection lots, deliveries, handling units, storage bins, and so on)

To trigger the selection, choose Selection.

Using the drop-down menu for the Result in Folder pushbutton, you can determine whether the selected batches are copied directly to the specified worklist folders after the selection is performed. If you have selected a worklist folder, the name of the folder appears beside the (for example, Standard folder).

Choose Restart to switch the user group-specific selection settings.

If you have maintained selection variants (see below), the system offers these for selection for the relevant user group.

You can use the authorization object M_MATE_BIC to specify which user can use which user groups.

You can use selection variants to save selection criteria for a specific user group. This means that the user is no longer required to enter the selection criteria manually for each selection. Selection variants are particularly useful for users who regularly perform selections according to the same criteria.

The system differentiates between private and public selection variants. A private selection variant can only be accessed by the corresponding user, a public variant can be used by all users that are assigned to the user group.

After you enter selection criteria and have confirmed them with Enter, you can choose Selection Variant to save the selection criteria in a selection variant. You can use the dropdown menu under Restart to view the selection variants that you have created for the user group.

You have the following options for deleting the entries in the selection tab pages:

• By choosing Reset selection criteria, you can reset any entries on the tab page.
• By choosing Reset all selection criteria, you can delete the selection criteria from all the tab pages.

If you have set the batch level as material or client level in your system, you can additionally restrict the batches to select.

You define the plant-specific selection for each user group in Customizing for Batch Management under Batch Information Cockpit ® Define User Group-Specific Selection.

To restrict the selection to batches that exist in a specific plant, you must enter a selection criteria with plant reference in the Batch Information Cockpit (for example, plant, valuation type, MRP planner).

The display in the Selection Result: Batches does not change. In other words, the entries are listed, sorted according to material and batch.

The system does not display batches that do not exist in any plant, and batches that exist in non-relevant plants.