B u s i n e s s Co n f i g u r a t i o n Se t s
Marc Oliver Schaefer
SAP AG
Usage sc enarios
A c t i v a t i o n o f B C Se t s
Ob j e c t s
B C Se t t y p e s
Wh a t a r e B C Se t s ?
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Usage sc enarios
A c t i v a t i o n o f B C Se t s
Ob j e c t s
B C Se t t y p e s
Wh a t a r e B C Se t s ?
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B u s i n e s s Co n f i g u ra t i o n Se t s - De f i n i t i o n
A B u s i n e s s Co n f i g u r a t i o n Se t i s a s e t o f Cu s t o m i zi n g s e t t i n g s
Which are grouped according to logical, business management
criteria to a unit
z
z
For documentary, quality assurance and rere-use purposes
z
Which is independent of the original Customizing tables/views
z
Which is accessible across the system landscape
B r i e f l y : B C Se t s a r e
snapshot s of
Cu s t o m i zi n g s e t t i n g s
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Cu s t o m i zi n g Se t t i n g A t t r i b u t e s
Cu s t o m i zi n g v a l u e s c a n b e g i v e n a t t r i b u t e s
Two types of attributes:
z
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Restricting Customizing
Certain Customizing must not be changed by subsidiaries
This set of settings is defined by global headquarters
Subsidiaries cannot change these settings in local system (repairs
(repairs are
possible)
Fix attribute is only active in activation system
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Flexible Customizing production
BC Sets can only be created in a running system
Org. units in global and local systems may differ
Option to change these values during activation
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B C Se t f o r M i l e s t o n e B i l l i n g
...a n d i t s Cu s t o m i zi n g
represent at ion
Business func t ionalit y t o be
p e r f o r m e d b y t h e SA P Sy s t e m ...
Implementation Guide
Sales and Distribution
Billing
Payment due on 00/05/03
Billing Plan
Define Billing Plan Types
...
Bill
Define and Assign Date Categories
...
Payment due on 00/05/13
Assign Billing Plan Types to Sales Document Types
000 | TA | 01
Assign Billing Plan Types to Item Categories
000 | TAO | I | 01
000 | WKC | I | 01
...
Payment due on 00/05/23
Sales
...
Financial Accounting
...
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B C Se t f o r M i l e s t o n e B i l l i n g
Cu s t o m i zi n g r e p r e s e n t a t i o n
Implementation Guide
Sales and Distribution
Billing
Billing Plan
BC Set
Define Billing Plan Types
Milestone Billing
...
Define and Assign Date Categories
Copy
...
Assign Billing Plan Types to Sales Document Types
• IMG Activities
• Customizing Settings
• Attributes
000 | TA | 01
Assign Billing Plan Types to Item Categories
000 | TAO | I | 01
000 | WKC | I | 01
...
Sales
...
Financial Accounting
...
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B C Se t f o r M i l e s t o n e B i l l i n g
Business func t ionalit y t o be
p e r f o r m e d b y t h e SA P Sy s t e m ...
... a n d i t s Cu s t o m i zi n g
represent at ion
Payment due on 00/05/03
BC Set
Bill
Milestone Billing
• IMG Activities
• Customizing Settings
• Attributes
Payment due on 00/05/13
Payment due on 00/05/23
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A d v a n t a g e s o f B C Se t s
V a l u a b l e a d d i t i o n a l Cu s t o m i zi n g i n f o r m a t i o n (A t t r i b u t e s )
Si m p l e c o n s i s t e n c y c h e c k s (Cr o s s -Sy s t e m V i e w e r )
Si m p l i f i e d r e -u s e ( A c t i v a t i o n )
Fl e x i b l e a d j u s t m e n t o f p r e -d e f i n e d Cu s t o m i zi n g (V a r i a b l e
ac t ivat ion)
Qu i c k a v a i l a b i l i t y o f b u g -f i x e s b y u p l o a d a n d d o w n l o a d
I n d e p e n d e n c e f r o m a c t u a l Cu s t o m i zi n g
Se c u r e i m p o r t o f Cu s t o m i zi n g ( b y s e p a r a t i o n f r o m a c t u a l
Cu s t o m i zi n g )
B u s i n e s s -o r i e n t e d p a c k a g i n g o f c u s t o m i zi n g
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Usage sc enarios
A c t i v a t i o n o f B C Se t s
Ob j e c t s
B C Se t t y p e s
Wh a t a r e B C Se t s ?
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B C Se t T y p e s : Ov e r v i e w
“ Si m p l e ” B C Se t
H i e r a r c h i c a l B C Se t
B C Se t f r o m
t ransport request
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B C Se t T y p e s : Si m p l e B C Se t
Table 1
BC Set
Milestone Billing
Table 2
• IMG Activities
• Customizing Settings
• Attributes
Table 3
Table 4
Values in the
SAP System
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B C Se t T y p e s : H i e r a r c h i c a l B C Se t
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Level n
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B C Se t T y p e s : B C Se t f r o m t r a n s p o r t r e q u e s t
SAPSAP-System
Customizing Tables
Transport Request
BC Set
+ Attributes
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Usage sc enarios
A c t i v a t i o n o f B C Se t s
Ob j e c t s
B C Se t t y p e s
Wh a t a r e B C Se t s ?
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T h e Cu s t o m i zi n g Fr a m e w o r k
Customizing
Customizingtables
tables
View
ViewMaintenance
Maintenance&&IMG
IMG
Customizing
Customizing
Cross-System
Cross-System
Viewer
Viewer
BC Set
BC Set
Activity
ActivityLog
Log
Transport
Transport
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Ob j e c t s i n B C Se t s
Cu s t o m i zi n g d a t a c a n b e c a p t u r e d i n B C Se t s
Ob j e c t s w h i c h y o u c a n n o t p u t i n t o B C Se t s
Mast er dat a:
Master data cannot be recorded with BC Sets.
Master data is not allowed in BC Sets because it could overwrite critical
data
Transac t ion dat a:
BC Sets are not intended to contain transaction data
Re p o s i t o r y o b j e c t s :
BC Sets are not intended to contain Repository Objects
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Usage sc enarios
A c t i v a t i o n o f B C Se t s
Ob j e c t s
B C Se t t y p e s
Wh a t a r e B C Se t s ?
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Di s t r i b u t i o n o f B C Se t s
A
B
Transport Request
BC Set Upload/Download
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Di f f e r e n c e s B e t w e e n T r a n s p o r t Re q u e s t a n d B C Se t
A
B
Customizing Request
BC Set
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Usage sc enarios
A c t i v a t i o n o f B C Se t s
Ob j e c t s
B C Se t t y p e s
Wh a t a r e B C Se t s ?
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B C Se t s – A r e a s o f U s a g e
Global Rollout
Definition of IMG/
process relationships
Development and
delivery of
preconfigured
systems (Best
Practices)
Easy re-use of
customizing
FDA Validation/
Customizing
documentation
Customizing
Distribution in
mySAP.com
Quick installation
of demo systems
(Sales/Marketing
Events)
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Customizing
Versioning
Customizing
delivery
independent of
release cycles
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Customizing
Upgrade
B C Se t s a n d V a l i d a t i o n
To assure FDA compliance,
compliance, changes in customizing have to be
recorded and documented precisely
Case Study GlaxoSmithKline
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Validation of customizing was delivered by paperwork,
paperwork, i.e. screenshots
of customizing were incorporated into a MS Word file and documented.
documented.
Individual documents of that type could comprise up to several
hundreds of pages
New procedure was established in close coco-operation with SLM
development
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Software modification SAP
Complete traceability of customizing changes throughout the system
landscape
Compare function in the BC Set transaction allows you to compare already
archived BC Sets with customizing tables to identify changes
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FDA (U S Fo o d & Dr u g A d m i n i s t r a t i o n )
z
z
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Activate the automatic recording in BC Sets
„
Maintain BC Sets: ->Utilities ->Activate customizing recording
„
User parameter CP15 (X)
User creates a new BC Set (for every table)
„
Set up a naming convention for the BC Set name
„
Starting with Z or Y
„
Include eg project, area and/or IMG activity
„
Versioning
z
Change the BC Set(s) to take over the content
z
Role: BC Set validator (SAP_BCS_VALID)
„
Display and create BC Sets (no changing or deletion)
„
Add documentation (no creating or changing)
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Gl o b a l r o l l o u t – Ce n t r a l Sy s t e m A p p ro a c h (1 )
Central Development
System
Local
Local
Local
Development Consolidation Production
Country 1
Development
Country 2
Template /
BC Sets
Country 3
BC Set
Activation
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Gl o b a l r o l l o u t – Ce n t r a l Sy s t e m A p p ro a c h (2 )
Central Development
System
Local
Local
Consolidation Production
Global Development/
Client Independent Cust.
Cust.
Country 1 - Development
Country 2 - Development
Country 3 - Development
Template Development
BC Set
Activation
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Clients
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Benefit s
B u s i n e s s Co n f i g u r a t i o n Se t s e n h a n c e d
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Coverage of IMG
„
Creation process
„
Documentation functionality
„
Activation
„
Growing user community
„
Increasing number of usage scenarios
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Thank s for list ening
Co n t a c t p e r s o n ....
z
marc.
marc.oliver.
oliver.schaefer@
schaefer@sap.
sap.com
z
A d d i t i o n a l i n f o r m a t i o n ...
z
http://service
http://service..sap.
sap.com/
com/customizing
z
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