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 Master Data Enhancement with EEW

Use

The Easy Enhancement Workbench (EEW) is available to assist you in enhancing the master data fields in the customer namespace provided by SAP by adding further fields. You can use the EEW, for example, to enhance the product master record by adding the Additional Costs field or further date fields for specifying validity periods. The business use of the enhancement fields has no influence on the standard. It is not necessary to manually change the source text.

The newly created fields appear on the relevant tab page in the Enhancement Fields group box. This box is visible only if you are using the enhancement. You can process the enhancement fields using individual or mass maintenance.

Integration

Enhancements effected using the EEW do not involve modification of the standard system.

In the event of an upgrade, the enhancement fields are automatically transported to the new system as well.

Enhancement fields are not integrated with the ERP system. That is to say, they are not automatically transferred to the ERP system via the Core Interface (CIF) or Business Application Programming Interface (BAPI).

Prerequisites

You need the appropriate authorization to be able to use the EEW.

Features

In Customizing for the EEW (transaction EEWZ1) the objects and subobjects you can enhance with the EEW are predetermined:

  • Location

    • Location header

  • Product

    • Storage data

    • Product header

    • Location product

    • Warehouse product

    • Storage type product

    • Packing/packaging material

A total of 500 bytes are available for each enhancement, which you can distribute among several fields. You can use a maximum of 60 bytes per field.

You can have a check table generated for each field.

Restrictions

  • You can only insert fields (one-to-one relationship) using the EEW - not tables.

  • The enhancement fields appear at predefined points on the user interface and cannot be moved.

  • You may not use any floating point numbersin the fields.

  • Consistency checks and search helps are not enhanced.

  • The indicator for activating change documents is not set automatically in the generated data elements.

Activities

Invoke the EEW in the SCM Basis menu under Start of the navigation path Master Data Next navigation step General Master Data Functions Next navigation step Enhancements . End of the navigation path

For more information, see Documentation on EEW .