Object Links (SAP Library - SSR - Service Station Retailing)

Object Links

Use

You can link each business location to other application objects within your system. You use these to depict the physical location in terms of other components in the SAP system.

You can create object links at both the business location level and the business type level. This allows you, for example, to link the business location to one storage location for fuel stocks and another storage location for car wash materials.

At the business location level you can link the business location to a site in an mySAP Retail system. For more information, see Linking Business Locations to Sites in SAP Retail.

Features

Available Object Links

You can assign the following objects to each business location:

· Cost center from the Cost Center Accounting system

· Profit center from the EC Profit Center Accounting system

· Functional location from the Plant Maintenance system. For more information, see Functional Locations.

· Functional location from the Service Management system For more information, see Serviceable Item as a Functional Location.

· Asset master record or group asset from the Asset Accounting system. For more information, see Asset Accounting Overview.

· Plant or storage location from the Inventory Management system

· Storage location for material movements. This link allows you to navigate directly to stock overview screens for materials held at the storage location. For more information see Inventory Management.

Note

If individual storage objects are linked to storage locations, these links override the links made here. For more information, see Storage Object Specifications.

You can create further assignments to link the business location to process-oriented activity monitors such as:

· Project and/or work breakdown structures from the PS Project System

· CO orders from the CO Controlling system. For more information, see Internal Orders.

You use the Partner Roles facility to create object links to business partners in the SAP system.

Status Check and User Exits for Object Link Assignments

The system reads the master data of assigned objects and checks for their basic validity when you:

· Display the Object Link Details screen for the first time from within any business location maintenance or display transaction

· Enter an object ID to create an assignment

· Change the ID of an object assignment

Once the check has been made, the appropriate status icon appears.

You can introduce additional checks for link objects by coding user exits and using the ABAP Workbench enhancement facility to activate these. If you wish to code additional checks for the object to which you are assigning the business location, you need to activate the relevant enhancement.

You can use the following enhancements:

Object	Enhancement ID
Cost center	OIFA0201
Profit center	OIFA0202
Functional location	OIFA0207
Asset	OIFA0206
Plant	OIFA0208
Storage location	OIFA0209
Project	OIFA0203
WBS	OIFA0204
CO order	OIFA0205
Storage location for material movements	OIFA0210

In each case, the enhancement calls user processing during the initial load of the object data and during PAI (process after input) on the object assignment input fields.

For more information about the use of enhancements, see Customer Exits.

Multiple Object Link Assignments

You can define an assignment from the business location to more than one target object for the following object types:

· Projects and/ or Project WBSs (work breakdown structures)

· Controlling (CO) orders

You use a table control to assign these object types. You double-click a table line item or choose Detail to make other features of the object link assignment facility available.

Links to Dialog Transactions

In Customizing for the Industry Solution Oil & Gas (Downstream), you can define the permissible range of dialog transactions to which links are supported by choosing SSR (Service Station Retailing) ® Business Location Master Data ® Object Links and Navigation ® Define link dialogs for object link type.

Note

No check is made to determine the suitability of a dialog transaction for a particular object. For example, it is quite possible to specify the Display Customer transaction for the Cost Center navigation link.

If no Customizing entry is made for the dialog control of a particular link object, the system calls a default dialog. Normally, this is the display master data dialog transaction for that object link. If one control entry is made for a particular link object, the system calls the specified dialog transaction. If multiple entries are made for a link object, the system calls a dialog box that allows you to choose the dialog that you require.