Validity (SAP Library - Organizational Management in SAP CRM)

Validity

Use

An enterprise’s organizational plan is constantly undergoing change. For this reason, Organizational Management allows you to edit the organizational structure, staff assignments as well as individual objects according to key dates.

Make sure you look at the validity concept, as this is relevant for every process step in the maintenance of the organizational structure.

Prerequisites

So that you can use validity completely, make sure

that you know the period for which you want to find and select objects

when you are creating objects and object characteristics, that you specify the period in which they are to be valid
when you are assigning objects and object characteristics that you specify the period in which the assignments are to be valid

Features

You determine the validity of an object or assignment when you create it. You control the display of objects by entering key dates and preview periods. For more information, see Validity of Objects and Assignments

You determine the validity of object characteristics when you create them. Changes to data are presented in periods. For more information, see Validity of Object Characteristics.