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Create and Change Part Configuration Assumptions
To create or change parts in your SAP distribution targets, the following are assumed:
For material types HALB and ROH:
Configurations are not changed from those delivered with a standard version of SAP.
No fields are configured as required with the exception of those fields that are consistently sent from Windchill PDMLink to the SAP distribution target.
Material view is configured as: Basic Data 1, MRP.
Company codes and plants are configured.
Change management is enabled for material masters, BOMs, and documents.
Versioning and revisioning flags for material masters are configured to allow versioning and revisioning.
The login used by the TIBCO connection has the appropriate roles assigned to it such as create material and change material.
Material master fields to be populated fromWindchill PDMLink data are not configured as locked.
Materials are configured for external revisioning and to accept external naming for material numbers and intervals are maintained.
TheWindchill PDMLink attribute values are cross-referenced with the SAP distribution target values.