You can use an application for mass changes to edit assignments of material planning objects, equipment packages, provisions packages, positions, and packing instructions to relocation steps for more than one force element at once.

The application for making mass changes to support relationships provides additional selection and editing functions.

You can edit the address assignments of more than one force element at once.

You can display the logistics work centers assigned to an organizational structure and edit assignments of work centers to force elements or positions. Furthermore, after copying a force element or a structure, the system can use a workflow to trigger the generation of new assignments of work centers to the copy. The processor of the work item has an application available for generating these assignments, which provides the assignments that exist for the copy template as default values.

In the Structures Workbench, the system displays the existing role assignments for force elements, positions, jobs, persons, and users. You can also create or edit role assignments directly in this application.

You can assign an equipment package to an assignment to the material planning object. In material planning, for the materials that are assigned to the equipment package, the system can then determine those material planning objects that comprise these materials as a model. The system considers these material planning objects as additional authorized materials.

For assignments between force elements and material planning objects, you can specify whether these assignments are to be considered for the mass execution of material planning. This also applies for indirect assignments via material containers.

You can display an overview of an organizational structure including the authorized personnel (assigned positions) and actual personnel (assigned persons).

You can display an overview of an organizational structure including the levels of readiness for each force element.

You can determine which force elements are not included in operations or exercises (by direct assignment or as a force provider) in a particular period and are thus available for other use.

You can perform an authorized/actual comparison for equipment in terms of materials from an organizational structures perspective.

For an organizational structure, you can perform an authorized/actual comparison for the staffing of an organizational structure. This authorized/actual comparison displays a comparative overview of the authorized personnel (assigned positions) and the actual personnel (staffing status of positions) for each force element.

For the structure search, you also have evaluation paths defined via Customizing available for selection. For example, you can thus use the component-specific structures (such as operational structures or exercise targets) to search for objects.

The object manager (function in Human Resources applications) contains these enhancements to the structure search. Furthermore, the object manager provides the evaluation paths defined in Customizing for a keyword search. In both cases, the search can determine objects with a status that is not Active.

In the header area of the Change Profile application (transaction PPPM), the system displays the status of the currently selected object. On the tab pages Requisitions and Requirement Blocks, the system displays the status of the relationship. When creating a relationship, this field is ready for input.

In the Find Objects for Requirements application (transaction PPQ2), you can use the enhanced structure search to limit the person subgroup that you want to synchronize. Alternatively, you can specify a period in addition to a key date.

You can include additional functions (transactions, reports, views, view clusters) in the Structures Workbench menu.

Automatic shipping point determination is available for processing stock elements and provisions elements in the Structures Workbench.

You can define system follow-up actions that are to be performed after a force element or structure has been copied.

You can specify which subtype of infotype 1952 (Address) is used in Enterprise Services for the Location Assignment value.

For the replenishment procedure with equipment packages, you can implement the functions of the later handling unit assignment and thus structure the replenishment procedure more flexibly. Previously, the latest point at which you could assign a particular handling unit (HU) to a stock transport requisition was when you converted this stock transport requisition to a stock transport order. Now, you can make this assignment at a later point (up until goods issue of the delivery) during the replenishment procedure.

You can use the new Assign HU pushbutton in the Structures Workbench or in the Planning Workbench to assign a handling unit to a PReq or purchase order. The delivery of an HU purchase order is now no longer generated in the same step; instead, you can use the new pushbutton to assign an HU to an HU purchase order at a later point. Alternatively, it is possible to wait until the delivery to assign an HU or to pack a completely new HU. See Requisitioning and Planning of Material.

A new transaction is available for generating a pick list for the creation of handling units based on equipment packages (/ISDFPS/EPA_PRINT). A pick list based on a delivery contains new additional information in a separate line if a material originally comes from the requirement of an EPA. The EPA-relevant information includes the number of the EPA and whether the material is the leading record, a mandatory part, or an optional part of the EPA. See Pick List for Equipment Packages.

The authorized/actual comparison contains a new material-container-oriented view for improved planning. In this view, it is possible to display all material containers for a material planning object (MPO) that contain the MPO and are assigned to a force element. The material containers are displayed with all contained MPOs and with the equipment packages that are derived from the material container. See Authorized/Actual Comparison.

You can create an assignment between a "force element-material planning object" relationship and an equipment package (EPA). To consider this assignment in the authorized/actual comparison, new MPO lines are dynamically generated in the material list. Two new columns provide you with information about the EPA assignment. One column displays the EPA number; the other column displays the material through which the assignment between EPA and MPO was established. You can use a pushbutton to choose between different views for the EPA assignment. The initial screen for the authorized/actual comparison contains three new selection options that you can use to specify how the equipment packages are to be evaluated. See Authorized/Actual Comparison.

A new transaction (/ISDFPS/MAT_COMP_PR) is available for the procurement of authorized materials. You can use this transaction to create and convert procurement proposals. You can use this transaction in material planning to create purchase requisitions for multiple force elements and MPOs at once. You can use the Adjust Mass Purchase Requisition for Authorized/Actual Comparison Business Add-In to adjust the generated mass purchase requisitions. You can also access the mass generation of purchase requisitions via the material list from the detail view for the MPO and in relocation planning. See Creation of Procurement Proposals.

You can use the Customizing activity Adjust Requested Quantity for New PReqs in Material Planning Process to adjust the requested quantity for new purchase requisitions. You can use the Business Add-In Adjust Quantities in Material Planning to adjust quantities in material planning. See Requisitioning and Planning of Material.

A new transaction (/ISDFPS/REORG1) is available to display and change reorganizations. You can specify warehouse assignments between issuing and receiving force elements. In the existing transaction (/ISDFPS/CHANGE_SLOC) for grouping and distributing storage locations, you can use the specified warehouse assignments from the reorganization as default values. If you use transaction /ISDFPS/CHANGE_SLOC with a reorganization, you can save the issue list without posting the goods movements and can continue processing later. In this transaction, you can also distribute quantities from one storage location to multiple storage locations, change the receiving storage location, and select the transfer posting movement type for each stock type. You can use the BAdI Adjust Reorganizations to adapt transaction /ISDFPS/CHANGE_SLOC when it is used for reorganizations. See Report: Display/Change Reorganizations.

You can use the Business Add-In Determine Deviation Reason for Proof of Delivery in Customizing for Shipping to determine the default deviation reason for proofs of delivery and override this as required. See POD: Adjustment of the Reason for the Deviation.

You can use a new transaction to hide entries that are no longer required or that are invalid in the input help for purchasing groups, material groups, and purchasing organizations, if the assigned force elements are no longer valid with regard to time. See Hiding of Invalid Entries from Input Help.

In the transaction for displaying the change documents for material master records (transaction MM04), a new indicator is available on the initial screen. You can use this indicator to display all change documents at field level on one screen using the SAP List Viewer. This means that you do not have to navigate from each individual change document header to the respective change documents at field level. See Display and Change Master Data.

In the transaction for making mass changes to material master data (transaction MM17), table MARA (general material data) contains four DFPS-specific fields: MCOND (material condition management), RETDELC (return code), LOGLEV_RETO (return up to logistical level), and NSNID (NATO stock number). See Display and Change Master Data.

To ensure data consistency in a distributed system landscape, the system ensures that maintenance orders, maintenance notifications, equipment, functional locations, and measurement documents can only be archived in the central system.

For measurement documents, you can specify the archiving time via Customizing.

You can use the PM_EQUI archiving object to archive site equipment data.

When archiving equipment packages with the IS-DFS_EPA archiving object, the system prevents an object from being archived if it is still assigned to an assignment between force elements and material planning objects.

When distributing assignments between force elements and material planning objects, the system also considers equipment packages that are assigned to these assignments. The VMPO2EPA FOX relationship is available for this purpose.

For distribution, the system also considers site equipment (in the same way as master equipment).

The system prevents maintenance orders, maintenance notifications, equipment, functional locations, and measurement documents that are business completed in the central system or that have received the deletion indicator through the archiving process from being included in further distribution processes.

You can use filter rules to reduce the volume of data when distributing maintenance orders and notifications and when forwarding change authorizations. You use Business Rule Framework plus to define the rules.