EHS automatic report shipping (change-relevant changes)

[Former Member]

In automatic report shipping a shipping order is triggered if a change to the specification occurs(i.e.:characteristic) or a change to a phrase used by the specification occurs, and the change is change-relevant.

How is the change relevancy of a characteristic or phrase specified or determined?

[christoph_bergemann · Accepted solution]

Hello Raynald,

I am not sure If I got your question right. But to my knowlegde EH&S report distribution is not working like you described it.

If you take a look here:

http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_04/helpdata/en/a7/2876560a6c11d28a220000e829fbbd/content.htm

things are explained a little bit.

Using http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_04/helpdata/en/a7/2876dd0a6c11d28a220000e829fbbd/content.htm you will get an idea how EH&S creates the worklist for report generation.

So to my knowledge: no the shipping order is "not triggered" by the events you have described but the report generation of existing reports is triggered by the events you describe. And clearyl if you release the report afterwards the recent report is used in report distribution.

Generally shipping orders are generated from SD and only processed by the report dsitribution process.

The automatic report generation is used to make sure that the content of the reports is "actual" according to data maintenance. As there are many steps involved in the process to generate the worklist there is no "simple" answer to your question.

Regarding the most important fact: if a "relevancy indicator" has been set" today" in a property which is report template relevant a report request is placed into the queue by the worklist for "tomorrow". But as mentioned by you: changes of phrasese can give rise to the same effect.

If you have a large EH&S system with many released reports be aware of the fact that the worklist generation process will take long. Please refer to OSS notes: I believe that the report generation process has been optimized several times by SAP. If you take a look in OSS you will find a major "report distribution" document (type consulting) in which I believe the process of generation of a worklist is described a little bit.

Hope that helps

C.B.

Edited by: Christoph Bergemann on Feb 7, 2010 6:48 PM