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You can differentiate label content for different countries or geographical areas with target locations, since target locations allow you to display ingredient or qualitative data in different ways.

A target location consists of a rating and validity area combination, and one or more languages.

Features

Example Example

The following data may be entered as the label set's target location in the case of Switzerland:

  • Target location profile: TLP_CH

  • Language: German, French, Italian

  • Rating: Public

  • Validity area: REG_CH

End of the example.

When you create a new label set, you must provide a target location and a language.

You can create target location profiles in Customizing activity Define Target Location Profiles under   Logistics - General   Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)   PLM Web User Interface   Recipe Development   Labeling  , where you can also assign a default profile for creating a label set.

You can also define whether a target location is added to newly created label sets automatically, by prompt, or not at all, in this Customizing activity. If you have chosen not to add any target locations automatically when creating new label sets, you can add them later manually.

For label sets, the target location can have an influence on the following data:

  • Display of the ingredient, qualitative data, and component list elements

  • Generated drafts of the given ingredient or qualitative data list

  • Statements and footnotes

Whenever you create a new target location, it must contain at least one language.

Labels that were created with no target location receive a default target location when you display or edit them in Recipe Development in PLM Web UI. This default target location consists of an “empty” usage (no values for rating and validity area), and the language of the label as specified on the Basic Data subview.

Activities

Creating new ingredient and qualitative data lists

The following data stays the same for one label set regardless of the target location:

  • Ingredient items

  • Ingredient list values

  • Position of ingredient items

The following can change according to target location:

  • Ingredient description and text for draft

  • Visibility of item for draft

  • Statements and footnotes

If there are already one or more target locations in the label set with corresponding ingredient and qualitative data, ingredient and qualitative data content is created automatically when you add a new target location.

If there are several target locations in the label set, but no ingredient or qualitative data has been created yet, the content is created for all existing target locations when you assign a data origin to the ingredient or qualitative label.

Statements

The following statement types exist on the label set:

Statements independent from target location

  • Statements for the whole label set (  Label Definition   Global Definition  )

  • Statements for component label

  • Footnotes for data origin value declarations on the component list

Statements dependent on target location

  • Statements for the ingredient or qualitative label

  • Footnotes for ingredient or qualitative list items

Where statements depend on the target location, you can define values for the target location itself and for the languages assigned to the target location.

For statements independent from target location, you can define values for languages (in some cases indicating the target location where they belong, for information purposes).

You can copy statements from one target location to another.

You can specify a purpose for statements, which indicates a special reason. For example, if the statement is Store in a cool, dry place, then the statement purpose can be set as storage.

You define a statement purpose in Customizing activity Specify Statement Purpose under   Logistics - General   Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)   PLM Web User Interface   Recipe Development   Labeling  .

Drafts

Label drafts can be generated from ingredient and qualitative data. The draft content depends on the target location of the label set.

You can influence the content of the generated draft by:

  • Assigning footnotes to list items by setting an item to be displayed in the draft

  • Specifying whether the proportion of an item is to be displayed for the ingredient label

  • Defining qualitative value declarations for the qualitative label

On the ingredient label, you can preview the draft name of an item in the Text for Draft column.

Further target location-dependent label features

  • XML export

  • PDF print preview

  • Component structure descriptions

  • Data origin description

  • Label set title

  • Ingredient list description

Features not dependent on target location

  • Label set description

  • Package list description

  • Package list long text