You can use Application Link Enabling (ALE) to distribute service master records from a central system among several local systems (
). The service master records are identical in all systems.Note
The distribution of service master records is a prerequisite for the distribution of contracts with services.
In the distribution of a service master record via the message category SRVMAS, the following data is transmitted:
Basic service data
Short texts (multilingual)
Long texts (multilingual)
The service master conditions are transmitted separately via the condition distribution facility.
For more information, refer to the
Purchasing
component (MM-PUR) under
Distributable Master Data Objects
.