PO Release Strategy

[Former Member]

Hi MM Gurus,

At my client,PO are going for release procedure based on purch. group,purch org,PO document type and net value.

But characterstics of net value and PO document type are not assigned to the PO Class,still the PO release is triggering based on the above four characterstics.

Is there any other confirugation settings to trigger release?

Please help me.It's urgent as i have to configure a new release strategy but unable to understand the present release procedure.

Thanks and regards

Dinesh

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

yes you have to create the class,characterstics and value assignments .

[Former Member]

Hi Dinesh ,

I hope the golden client you mentioned is for only IMG configurations. so all the Release strategy configurations are done here. You need to create the Characteristics / Class manually ( in your case, in QA )before transporting your release strategy config from golden client to QA.

Hope this will help.

Thanks

Kiran

[Former Member]

Hi Kiran,

Thanks for the reply.I have already tried configuration and transporting in golden client but the release is not working in QA.

As you mentioned to create charactersctics and assigning in QA client.

Should i have to create release characterstics in QA and then in golden client or creating only in QA will resolve the problem?

I tested release procedure in sandbox and its working fine as sandbox is same as QA and production client.

Please clerify.

Thanks

Dinesh

[Former Member]

Hi Dinesh,

I hope you know the steps in release strategy. Creation of Characteristics and Class ( CT04 & CL02 ) is SAP transactions and not a configurations. It has to be created manually in each landscape. Now if you have configured the release strategy in Golden client means you have must have created release charcteristics and Class in it and used in release startegy configurations.

Now if you want to transport the Release configurations to QA environment (or vice versa) you must manually create first the same characteristics ( values assigned to it ) and class in QA . Then transport the release config from Golden client to QA ( or vice versa). Also Release procedure to work properly and get trigger ,you should check your release classification in IMG weather proper values has been used for the characteristics.

Hope this will help.

Thanks

Kiran

[Former Member]

Hi Kiran,

Thanks for the reply.I think that this will resolve my problem.One more question:

As you have mentioned that i have to create in every landscape.

Should i have to create the class,characterstics and value assignments in the production client also or will it get transported from QA to production?

Please clerify.

Thanks for the help

Dinesh

[Former Member]

Hi Dinesh,

We also faced the same problem...

But then what we did is we opened the QA client and did the Release strategy.

In the same way we did it in Production also. I think this will be better if you do complete configuration of release strategy by opening the client.

Regards,

Puneeth

[Former Member]

Hi Kiran,Puneeth and SAP MM

Thanks for your quick reply.I have tested release in QA as you suggested and its working fine.

I will get back to forum after testing in production and let you know the results.

Thanks once again for your help.

Dinesh

[Former Member]

Hi MM Gurus,

I have found out that 'Golden client' is different from 'QA and production' clients.Golden client doesn't have characterstics for 'net value' and 'document type' while 'QA' and 'production' has these characterstics.

Now,The question is;

How to configure new release strategy in 'Golden client' so that i can transport it into QA client.I tried creating the new characterstics for net value and document type and transporting these but the release is not triggering.

Please help.

Thanks

Dinesh