Configure Change Request Settings

Depending on your company’s requirements, you might want to adjust and enhance the change request default values.

The following information describes the minimal settings required for a standard governance process. For more information about each Customizing activity, see the relevant documentation for that Customizing activity.

Review and/or define which statuses the change requests can have, and which processing options are enabled for those statuses. Optionally, you can add new statuses to be used in the change request types defined in the next step.

For more information, see Customizing for Master Data Governance, Central Governance under Start of the navigation path General Settings Next navigation step Process Modeling Change Requests Edit Statuses of Change Requests End of the navigation path .

The following statuses are required for the SAP standard process:

Status Value	Description	Permitted Processing
00	To Be Evaluated	Change of Object List
01	To Be Considered and Approved	Change of Object List
02	Changes to Be Executed	Execution of Changes
03	To Be Revised	Change of Object List
04	Final Check to Be Performed	No Processing
05	Final Check Approved	No Processing
06	Final Check Rejected	No Processing
07	Activation Failed	No Processing
08	Approved, to Be Replicated	No Processing
09	Dependent Data to Be Processed/Approved	Execution of Changes
10	To Revise: Perform Changes	Execution of Changes
11	Process Errors After Activation	Execution of Changes
12	Approved, Contact Person to be Processed	No Processing
30	To Be Revised with Changes	Execution of Changes
99	No Status Set	No Processing

Check in the Customizing that the following business activities are in your system under Start of the navigation path Master Data Governance, Central Governance Next navigation step General Settings Process Modeling Business Activities Create Business Activity End of the navigation path and make sure that they are assigned to the default data model BP.

Business Activity	Description	Comment
BPP1	Create Business Partner
BPP2	Process Business Partner
BPP3	Display Business Partner
BPP5	Block/Unblock Business Partner
BPP6	Mark Business Partner for Deletion
BPPC	Business Partner Data Cleansing
BPPI	MDG Hub Inbound: Business Partner	Create using data exchange
BPPH	Process Business Partner Hierarchies
BPPL	Business Partner Initial Load
BPPM	Business Partner Mass Maintenance
BPPU	MDG Hub Inbound: Business Partner	Change using data echange

You must also ensure that they are assigned to the default data model BP.

Create new change request types for data model BP, or validate after import using business configuration set (BC Set).

For more information, see Customizing for Master Data Governance, Central Governance under Start of the navigation path General Settings Next navigation step Process Modeling Change Requests Create Change Request Type End of the navigation path .

The following table shows the change request types for data model BP of the business partner UI. Only the relevant columns are included.

Change Request Type	Data Model	Description	Single Object	Main Entity Type	Workflow
BP1P1	BP	Create Business Partner	Yes	BP_HEADER	WS60800086
BP2P1	BP	Process Business Partner	Yes	BP_HEADER	WS60800086
BP5P1	BP	Block/Unblock Business Partner	Yes	BP_HEADER	WS60800086
BP6P1	BP	Mark Business Partner for Deletion	Yes	BP_HEADER	WS60800086
BPCC1	BP	Process Business Partner Cleansing Case	Yes	BP_HEADER	WS60800086
BPHP2	BP	Process Business Partner Hierarchies	No	BP_HEADER	WS60800095
BPLP2	BP	Business Partner Initial Load	No	BP_HEADER	WS72100006
BPMP2	BP	Business Partner Mass Maintenance	No	BP_HEADER	WS60800095

The following settings should exist in the substructures of the change request types:

Substructure of Change Request Types:

BP1P1

Entity types:
- ADDRNO: Msg. Output = Standard
- BP_HEADER: Msg. Output = Standard
- BP_REL: Msg. Output = Standard
Business Activity: BPP1 Create Business Partner

BP2P1

Entity types:
- ADDRNO: Msg. Output = Standard
- BP_HEADER: Msg. Output = Standard
- BP_REL: Msg. Output = Standard
Business Activity: BPP2 Process Business Partner

BP5P1

Entity type: BP_HEADER: Msg. Output = Standard
Business Activity: BPP5 Block/Unblock Business Partner

BP6P1

Entity type: BP_HEADER: Msg. Output = Standard
Business Activity: BPP6 Mark Business Partner for Deletion

BPCC1

Entity types:
- ADDRNO: Msg. Output = Standard
- BP_HEADER: Msg. Output = Standard
- BP_REL: Msg. Output = Standard
Business Activity: BPPC Business Partner Data Cleansing

BPHP2

Entity types:
- ADDRNO: Msg. Output = Standard
- BP_HEADER: Msg. Output = Standard
- BP_HRCHY: Msg. Output = Standard
- BP_REL: Msg. Output = Standard
- BP_SUBHRY: Msg. Output = Standard
Business Activity: BPPH Process Business Partner Hierarchies

BPLP2

Entity types:
- ADDRNO: Msg. Output = Standard
- BP_HEADER: Msg. Output = Standard
- BP_HRCHY: Msg. Output = Standard
- BP_REL: Msg. Output = Standard
- BP_SUBHRY: Msg. Output = Standard
Business Activity: BPPL Business Partner Initial Load

BPMP2

Entity types:
- ADDRNO: Msg. Output = Standard
- BP_HEADER: Msg. Output = Standard
- BP_HRCHY: Msg. Output = Standard
- BP_REL: Msg. Output = Standard
- BP_SUBHRY: Msg. Output = Standard
Business Activity: BPPM Business Partner Mass Maintenance

Note Note

In an optional step you can specify Service Level Agreement for all the mentioned change request types.

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Import Predefined Field Modification Criteria for Transaction BP Using MDG-BP
Run this activity in Customizing for Master Data Governance, Central Governance under Master Data Governance for Business Partner Import Predefined Field Modification Criteria for Transaction BP Using MDG-BP .
Optionally, you can define priorities, reasons, or rejection reasons for change requests. You can enter codes and a short description to tag or classify your change requests. These codes can be used later for change request analytics (process quality analysis). They also can be used to influence the workflow-driven processes. For example, depending on the priority of a change request, you can mark it for special processing.
For more information, see Customizing for Master Data Governance, Central Governance under General Settings Process Modeling Change Requests Define Priorities for Change Requests / Define Reasons for Change Requests / Define Rejection Reasons for Change Requests .

Note Note

You can apply system settings that allow you to monitor in detail how effectively your organization processes change requests. For details, see Enabling Detailed Analysis of Change Requests.

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