Maintaining Dependent Objects in Model 

Use

During supply chain modeling, you may find yourself assigning or deleting large numbers of objects to or from your model. Many of these objects may have dependent objects assigned to them. To ensure model consistency, you can automatically assign or delete the dependent objects along with the primary object. Automatic assignment not only ensures consistency, but also makes model maintenance much easier.

Example

If you assign a production process model (PPM) to your supply chain model, the location and all associated resources and products will automatically be assigned as well.

Procedure

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       1.      From the SAP Easy Access menu, choose Master Data → Supply Chain Engineer → Make Settings.

       2.      In the SCE settings profile, choose Model Maintenance.

       3.      Set the Include Objects to Ensure Model Consistency indicator if you want all dependent objects that are necessary for model consistency to be assigned automatically. See table below.

       4.      Set one or more of the other indicators if you want to assign objects that are attached to the primary object but are not necessary to maintain model consistency (for example, products at a location). See entries in table below:

Model Consistency and Dependent Objects

Primary Object	Dependent Object	Assign Objects to Ensure Model Consistency	Delete Objects to Ensure Model Consistency
Location	Loc. prod.		X
	Resource		X
	PPM		X
Location product	Location	X
	Resource
	PPM		X
Resource	Location	X
	Loc. prod.
	PPM	X	X
PPM	Location	X
	Loc. prod.	X
	Resource	X
	Location of resource	X

For locations, you can also specify that the following objects are to be automatically assigned or deleted:

·        Location products

·        Resources

·        PPMs