Very often you have a large number of original documents, of both a technical and an accounting nature, for your planned investments. You want to manage these documents for appropriation requests and their variants as centrally as possible. Therefore, the documents can be stored digitally in a document management system.

Appropriation request variants share an interface with the central document management function in the SAP R/3 System. You access it in the master data transaction for appropriation request variants on the Variants tab page. This allows you to link many different kinds of documents with the appropriation request variant, for example:

• Original documents

• Text files

• Blueprints

• Spreadsheets

The documents are stored (either locally or centrally) according to the specifications in central document management of the SAP R/3 System.