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Technical Data

Technical Name of Business Function

DFPS_OF_OS

Type of Business Function

Enterprise business function

Available As Of

SAP enhancement package 4 for SAP ERP 6.0

Technical Usage

Defense

Application Component

Defense Forces and Public Security (IS-DFS)

Business Function That You Also Have to Activate

Enterprise business function DFPS, Logistical Operational Support (DFPS_OF_DEPL_LOG)

This business function provides you with new functions for the Defense Forces & Public Security (DFPS) component. The new functions support armed forces, police, and aid agencies in domestic-base processes and in performing operations and exercises with a multilevel system landscape.

Prerequisites

You have installed the following components for the version mentioned and higher:

Component Type

Component

Only Required for the Following Functions

Software component

EA-APPL 604

EA-DFPS 604

SAP_APPL 604

Portal content

Business Package for Defense Forces & Public Security 1.4

BI Content

SAP NetWeaver 7.0 BI Content Add-On 3 Support Package 09

Business function

OPS_EC_INTEGRATION

Integration of SAP Environmental Compliance into the work area of the Environment, Health and Safety (EH&S) component

Business function

LOG_EAM_SIMP

Function for making mass changes to equipment (via transaction IE05)

Features

Organizational Flexibility
  • You can use a mass change to edit the following logistical assignment information for multiple force elements at once:

    • Plant, MRP area, and storage location

    • Purchasing organization, purchasing group, reference element, organizational priority, and logistical level

    You can use this function as an alternative to the existing functions for editing individual force elements if you need to edit larger volumes of data.

  • To process data inconsistencies centrally for Material and Infrastructure Assignments, you have reports available that you can use to make the following changes to one or more force elements at once:

    • Delete material assignments

    • Delete infrastructure assignments

    • Change the status of material assignments

    • Change the status of infrastructure assignments

Materials Management
  • You can use a new transaction to distribute or group storage locations. See Report: Distribute and Group Storage Locations.

  • The following new functions are available for the workbench for logistical deployment planning and execution:

    • You can represent the display in the stock/requirements list in all units of measure given in the material master record.

    • You can use the Select Storage Loc. pushbutton to change the storage location of the requesting force element.

    • You can directly transfer post an infrastructure material managed in serial numbers in the serial number view to a different storage location.

    • For an existing purchase requisition for a material managed in serial numbers, you can copy serial numbers that you selected via the stock situation to the purchase requisition.

    See Requisitioning and Planning of Material.

  • For equipment for which the stock is in transit, the receiving storage location from the related stock transport order is displayed.

  • In a purchase order, you can copy the advice code from the main item to the subitems of the purchase order. If you change the advice code in the main item, the system automatically updates the subitems with the new advice code. See Advice Code.

  • The following new functions are available in the authorized/actual comparison:

    • You can define customer selection parameters.

    • In Customizing, you can use a Business Add-In to define customer links and include these links in the application.

    • You can display the serial numbers of installed equipment in the detail view.

    • You can consider unassigned storage locations of a stock MRP area in the authorized/actual comparison.

    See Authorized/Actual Comparison.

  • Initial supply is also possible for distributed materials management. Since the distributed materials management in a distributed system landscape can only handle purchase orders that were converted from purchase requisitions, purchase requisitions instead of purchase orders are now created during initial supply. See Initial Supply.

  • A new Business Add-In is available that, when deleting storage locations, you can use to delete table entries that the standard deletion program cannot include. See Deleting Stock Storage Locations.

  • The following new functions are available for cross-plant reorganizations:

    • A new transaction is available for cross-plant reorganizations.

    • If you perform storage location mapping during a cross-plant reorganization, the system issues a warning message if storage locations with the same name that are not yet assigned to a force element already exist in the new plant.

    • A detailed application log is available for each cross-plant reorganization. Each notification that is written to the application log is assigned to the object that was being processed when the notification was issued. It is also possible to jump from the application log to the display transaction of the relevant object.

    • During a cross-plant reorganization, the system edits purchasing documents with a release strategy. Performed releases for purchase requisitions and purchase orders are thus reset.

    • You can perform a cross-plant reorganization for a force element that is active in a decentralized system.

    • A cross-plant reorganization is now also possible without a structure change, whereas cross-plant reorganizations previously always required the organizational or operational structure to be changed.

    • A new Business Add-In is available, which you can use to include additional materials in the list of materials to be copied.

    See Support for Cross-Plant Reorganization.

  • You can use the integration of SAP Environmental Compliance into the work area of the Environment, Health and Safety (EH&S) component to display the data from SAP Environmental Compliance directly on a separate tab page in the EH&S work area. See Integration of SAP Env. Compl. with EH&S Work Area.

    This function is only available if the OPS_EC_INTEGRATION business function is activated in addition to this business function.

Maintenance
  • For the mass creation of maintenance notifications, you can use a new transaction. See Mass Creation of Maintenance Notifications.

  • In the application for making mass changes to equipment (via transaction IE05), the two fields Position in Superior Technical Object and Construction Type Material of the Object are available on the new Structure Data tab page. See Mass Changes for Equipment.

    The function for making mass changes to equipment (via transaction IE05) is only available if the LOG_EAM_SIMP business function is activated.

  • You can use the BAdI: Delete Personnel Number from Operations in the Distribution Business Add-In to delete personnel numbers in maintenance order operations in the decentralized system. See Distribution of Maintenance Objects.

  • If you use a distributed system landscape, you can forward the change authorization for multiple objects at once. See Change Authorization.

  • New functions for creating, changing, and reversing measurement documents in distributed systems are available. See Measurement Documents in Distributed Systems.

  • You can use the training program functions to map training programs for maintenance orders (for example, also for flights). See Training Data and Qualifications.

Support for Flight Operations
  • You can use the staff assignment board to plan operations for your staff.

  • You can use the Mass Change Usage Rate function to change the usage rate for multiple aircraft at once.

  • For the Status Board and Controlled Usage Rate applications, you can make technical settings to accelerate the data selection for master equipment with hierarchical structures. See Status Board.

System Architecture
  • When distributing data to the decentralized systems of your system landscape with product data replication (PDR), you can include the following data to make it available for functions and processes in these systems:

    • Hazardous substance data for material

    • Partner data for customers or vendors

    • NATO stock number for material

    • Additional properties of force elements that you assign using SAP Military Data Exchange functions

    • Logbook

    • Assignments of material planning objects and material containers to Human Resources Management objects

  • You can archive DFPS-specific additional data from the Support for Flight Operations area for maintenance notifications, maintenance orders, and equipment. If you have activated the Distributed Maintenance scenario, note the following:

    Caution Caution

    You can archive data in both the central and decentralized systems. If you are using a distributed system landscape, you must work out an archiving concept in sync with your system landscape that fulfills the following requirements: To exclude data inconsistencies you must specify exactly in which systems and at what times data can be archived. You can only archive data when it is no longer needed for other processes.

    End of the caution.
  • You can use the Data Retention Tool (DART) to extract component-specific additional data, as well as information about the previous and subsequent purchase requisition of purchase requisitions.