Creating a Late Package (SAP Library - Engineering Change Management (LO-ECH))

Creating a Late Package

Use

In the standard system, the change packages are allocated to a change leader before it has been released for production or globally. Under certain circumstances, however, the change also affects other objects and these should then also be included in the change hierarchy for organizational reasons, for example.

You can allocate another package to a leading change master record that the changes have already been released for. We call these packages that you allocate to a leading change master record after it has been released, late packages.

Prerequisites

You must allow late packages for your company in Customizing for Logistics - General → Engineering Change Management. Set the Late packages allowed indicator under Set up control data.

Features

You can perform the following functions if you allow late packages:

Release change leaders even if all its packages have not been released

The system:

releases the change leader and sets the Technical release indicator
indicates the package that has not been released as a late package

You can process other change objects with reference to this late package.

Create a change package for a change leader that has been released

The system:

copies the data it requires (for example, effectivity data) from the leading change master record
indicates the package that you have created as a late package

You can process other change objects with reference to this late package.

Releasing a Leading Change Master Record

You must release the change leader, for example, even if all the changes are not complete but you want the released changes to take effect in the operative areas (planning, production).

If you want to release a leading change master record that has packages allocated to it that have not yet been released, proceed as follows:

Change the leading change master record that you want to release.

Choose Edit → Technical release from the menu in the change header.

You receive a warning that not all the assigned packages have been released.

Confirm this warning. After you save, the change leader is released. You can still process other change objects with reference to the late package.

Creating a Change Package for a Change Leader that has been Released

You must create a change package for a change leader that has been released, for example, if changes that you made have already been released for the operative areas using the change leader, but you want to make some more changes to one or more objects.

If you want to allocate a change package to a change leader that has already been technically released, proceed as follows:

Create a change master record using the Change package function.
Allocate this package to the change leader that has already been released.

You receive a warning that the leading change master record has already been released.

Confirm this warning.
You can enter all the data required for the change package, for example setting object type indicators.
After you save, you can process other change objects with reference to this change package.