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doc_type: fsd_product_capabilities
source: SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2602 Feature Scope Description (v2.0, 2026-03-12)
module: Manufacturing / Quality Management / EHS
fsd_pages: 131–165
kb_version: 2602
last_updated: 2026-04-04
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# Manufacturing, Quality Management & EHS — Product Capabilities

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2602 covers discrete manufacturing, process industry (recipe-based), and repetitive manufacturing scenarios. Quality Management is embedded across procurement, production, and sales processes. The Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) module provides comprehensive capabilities for incident management, environmental compliance, waste management, chemical safety, and management of change.

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## 3.11.1 Production Engineering

### 3.11.1.1 Production BOM Management
> 📄 FSD Reference: p131

**业务背景 (Business Background)**:
During the product engineering phase, you design and develop products. You design new products or product lines to take advantage of current process technology and to improve quality and reliability. Or, you have to change an existing product due to changing market or customer requirements. The result of this product phase is drawings and a list of all the parts required to produce the product. This list is the bill of material.

**核心功能 (Key Features)**:

| 功能 (Feature) | 说明 (Use / Description) |
|---------------|------------------------|
| Manage bills of material | You can create a complete, formally structured list of the components that make up a product or assembly. A bill of material contains essential master data for integrated materials management and production control. In the design department, a new product is designed so that it is suitable for production and for its intended purpose. The result of this product phase is drawings and a list of all the parts required to produce the product. This list is the bill of material which is the basis for the production process (in discrete manufacturing, repetitive manufacturing, and in the process industry). |
| Assign BOMs to plants | You can extend the area of validity of a BOM that you defined when you first created it. This means, for example, that you can assign the same BOM to a material in different plants — avoiding data redundancy and multiple data entry. |
| Monitor multilevel BOM assignment | You can use a reporting function that determines all components (assemblies and individual parts) in a product and displays them per low-level code. |
| Find BOM for component | You can use a reporting function that determines where an object (for example, material) is used and the quantity that is required. This is necessary, for example, if objects are used in more than one context. You can use this information to: Determine requirements for a specific material; Select all products that are affected by a change to an individual part; Find assemblies that will be delayed if there is a delay in the delivery of a raw material; Calculate the effect on the cost of a product if the price of a raw material is increased. |

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### 3.11.1.2 Master Recipe/Routing Management
> 📄 FSD Reference: p132

**业务背景 (Business Background)**:
During the process engineering phase, you design and continuously improve manufacturing equipment and production facilities. This process enables you to model the capabilities of the manufacturing equipment and to monitor its performance.

**核心功能 (Key Features)**:

| 功能 (Feature) | 说明 (Use / Description) |
|---------------|------------------------|
| Manage the objects and persons involved in the production process (Discrete: Model work centers; Process industry: Model resources) | You use work centers/resources to represent machines, production lines, employees, or groups of employees, for example. Together with the bills of material and routings/recipes, work centers/resources belong to the most important master data in the production planning and control system and are used for scheduling, costing, capacity planning, and for simplifying operation maintenance. |
| Group work centers for capacity evaluation | You can group work centers based on the same line or on the alternate work centers, to carry out the same work. This gives the capability to assess aggregated capacities across work centers and enables easy decision making. |
| Monitor bills of material | You can display and monitor the following: Bills of material created by the product engineers; Assignment of bills of material to plants; Multilevel BOM explosion; Where an object is used and the quantity that is required (Find BOM for component). You use this information as a reference when determining the process steps for production in the routing/recipe. |
| Model the production process (Discrete: Model routings; Process industry: Model recipes) | A routing/recipe is a description of the operations/process steps that have to be carried out and the order in which they have to be carried out to produce a material. In addition, a routing/recipe contains details about the work centers/resources at which the operations/process steps are carried out and the BOM components that are required. In discrete manufacturing, the routing is used as the basis for creating production orders; and in the process industry, the recipe is used as the basis for creating process orders. |
| Model production versions | The production version determines the production techniques according to which a material is to be manufactured. A material may have several bills of material (BOMs) that determine the components used in its production. The production process can also be described in various routings/recipes. You define which BOM and which routing/recipe is to be used for production in the production version that you assign to a material. |

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## 3.11.2 Production Planning

### 3.11.2.1 Material Requirements Planning
> 📄 FSD Reference: p133

**业务背景 (Business Background)**:
This process enables you to ensure the availability of materials. It is typically performed by the MRP controller who monitors the material shortage situation and solves any issues on time. Another main task is to ensure that sufficient supplies have been planned to cover requirements — whether from sales orders, stock transfer orders, or from production, for example. The goal is to ensure that both customer and production demand are fulfilled on time and to avoid any disruptions due to missing parts.

**核心功能 (Key Features)**:

| 功能 (Feature) | 说明 (Use / Description) |
|---------------|------------------------|
| Manage planned independent requirements | You can create and change planned independent requirements. |
| Perform material requirements planning | You can automate the planning of the procurement process. You can schedule your MRP runs to be executed automatically on a regular basis. The main function of the planning run is to guarantee material availability to avoid delays in order fulfillment. To do this, the system checks the availability of each material in the planning run and creates purchase requisitions or planned orders if it detects shortages. |
| Monitor and manage supply and demand | You can monitor and adjust the current supply and demand situation for your area of responsibility using a selection of tools. You have system support in detecting material shortages, uncovered requirements as well as any issues regarding process orders or production orders. You are provided with further automated support for solving issues to avoid delays or disruptions due to missing items. Tools are also available for communicating with your vendor if solving the issues requires changing a purchase order or stock transport order. The stock/requirements list displays all supply and demand elements for a material in the form of a table and enables you to gain a quick overview of the stock/requirements situation for the material. You can also branch into the editing function for the MRP elements for this material. Planned orders are created automatically during a planning run. However, you can also create new planned orders or adapt existing ones manually to optimize the replenishment situation. |
| Convert planned orders | You can convert planned orders into production orders or process orders. Planned orders are internal planning elements that are only used for planning purposes and do not trigger any procurement (with the exception of repetitive manufacturing). The system only triggers procurement once the planned orders are converted into fixed receipt elements. **Discrete Manufacturing**: You can convert planned orders for materials that are to be produced in-house into production orders. You can convert your planned orders manually or automatically using an order conversion run. The material components required for production are contained as items in the planned order and are copied directly when the planned order is converted into a production order. With the conversion to production orders, the responsibility is passed on from the MRP controller to the production supervisor. **Process Industry**: In this case, you convert planned orders into process orders. Again, you can convert your planned orders manually or automatically using an order conversion run. The material to be produced, the order quantity, and the order dates are copied from the planned order to the process order. With the conversion to process orders, the responsibility is passed on from the MRP controller to the production supervisor. **Repetitive Manufacturing**: In repetitive manufacturing, planned orders can be used to trigger production. In this case, the planned orders do not have to be converted into production orders or process orders. You also convert planned orders for materials to be purchased externally into purchase requisitions. Purchase requisitions created automatically during the MRP run can be locked first for checking. |

**⚠ 限制与注意事项 (Constraints / Notes)**:
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### 3.11.2.2 Production Scheduling
> 📄 FSD Reference: p135

**业务背景 (Business Background)**:
Material Requirements Planning (MRP) addresses the coverage of demand by supply elements (for example, inhouse production orders) without considering the available capacity. Capacity planning supports the MRP planner in changing the production plan in such a way that the capacity constraints are considered while keeping the demands in time and quantity in mind.

**核心功能 (Key Features)**:

| 功能 (Feature) | 说明 (Use / Description) |
|---------------|------------------------|
| Maintain Capacity | You can review when and how much capacity is available for a work center. This is called the capacity definition. You can manage this definition for instance, by reducing the work time or by including additional work time. |
| Evaluate Capacity | You can review the capacity load on your work centers. You can compare the available and required capacities, thereby identifying the issues that needs to be resolved. |
| Create Detailed Plans | You can filter and select the orders to be planned by using different search criteria. You can decide where (the source) and when (the dates) the orders need to be planned. |

**⚠ 限制与注意事项 (Constraints / Notes)**:
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**关联Scope Items**: —

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### 3.11.2.3 Demand-Driven Replenishment
> 📄 FSD Reference: p136

**业务背景 (Business Background)**:
Demand-Driven Replenishment enables you to plan and manage supply chains based on customer demand, rather than through traditional MRP procedures. You can create the basis for a reliable material flow by defining buffers at strategically important points along a supply chain and by regularly adjusting the buffers' limits.

**核心功能 (Key Features)**:

| 功能 (Feature) | 说明 (Use / Description) |
|---------------|------------------------|
| Analyze and classify products | You can analyze and classify your products based on certain criteria to identify products which can act as decoupling points. You can automate the classification process by scheduling classification runs to be executed on a regular basis. |
| Select products relevant to Demand-Driven Replenishment | You can define which products are relevant to Demand-Driven Replenishment using classification information. |
| Generate buffer level proposals | You can generate buffer (stock) level proposals for your products that are relevant to demand-driven replenishment (DD-relevant products). You can automate the generation of buffer level proposals by scheduling runs to be executed on a regular basis. |
| Manage buffer levels | You can manage the buffer levels, and in turn, the safety stock, reorder point, and maximum stock for your products based on the buffer level proposals. |
| Manage replenishment planning | You can manage the planning status of buffers using their planning priority. |
| Manage replenishment execution | You can manage the execution status of buffers using their on-hand stock status. |
| Manage Projected On-Hand Alerts | You can manage the projected stock alerts of buffers using projected status. |

**⚠ 限制与注意事项 (Constraints / Notes)**:
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### 3.11.2.4 Predictive Material and Resource Planning (pMRP)
> 📄 FSD Reference: p137

**业务背景 (Business Background)**:
Predictive material and resource planning (pMRP) enables production planners to identify capacity issues related to demand-driven materials and to solve them early in the planning process. They work with simulations based on simplified data to detect the issues and to simulate counter measures. As a result of processing the simulation, planners are prepared to take decisions on changed conditions, for example with regard to requirement planning.

**核心功能 (Key Features)**:

| 功能 (Feature) | 说明 (Use / Description) |
|---------------|------------------------|
| Schedule the creation of pMRP simulations | You can create simplified planning data and use them as reference data in a simulation. |
| Process pMRP simulations | The simulation provides a demand plan view where you can simulate changes to the demand quantities and a capacity plan view where you can simulate changes to the available capacity. In addition, you can display the multi-level bill of material and detect issues on a particular bill of material level. You can change the source of supply, if an alternative one exists or start a preproduction of a particular material component to solve capacity issues. You can check the impact of these simulated changes and display a summary. |

**⚠ 限制与注意事项 (Constraints / Notes)**:
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**关联Scope Items**: —

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## 3.11.3 Production Operations

### 3.11.3.1 Production Control
> 📄 FSD Reference: p138

**业务背景 (Business Background)**:
This process enables you to manage and regulate the manufacturing process. It is typically performed by the production supervisor who is responsible for dispatching production operations to individual machines if a work center/resource has several alternative machines and for assigning shop floor specialists to operations or machines. The production supervisor also decides on measures to mitigate machine breakdowns or missing components, for example.

**核心功能 (Key Features)**:

| 功能 (Feature) | 说明 (Use / Description) |
|---------------|------------------------|
| Monitoring and adjusting the production worklist | You can change production orders or process orders, perform scheduling, and check component availability. |
| Releasing production orders/process orders | You have to release the production/process order before it can be processed. You can use the time period between creating and releasing an order, for example, to carry out company checks and preparations. You can release the production/process order at header level releasing all operations. Or, you can release single operations. You can also perform a mass release. Furthermore, you can schedule an order release run that instructs the system to automatically release all your production/process orders periodically. Once the orders are released, you can execute confirmations, print shop floor papers, and execute goods movements, for example. |
| Monitoring production execution | You have various options for monitoring the production progress. **Order Progress Report**: This report shows you which documents, MRP elements, stocks, and deliveries exist for products and their components that have been ordered by a customer. The order progress report gives you a quick overview of the status of production and procurement, statements about the adherence to delivery dates or delays and this information can be displayed for more than one sales order or a WBS element. From the report, you can navigate to the individual procurement elements, the stock/requirements list, or the stock overview, for example. **Order Information System**: This report provides you with reporting functions for production orders, planned orders, and process orders. You can view all the orders in the system, including the orders with deletion flags or deletion indicators. For production and process orders, you can display the order headers, items, documented goods movements, operations, components, the production list, and confirmations, for example. From the report, you also have various navigation options. |
| Executing production completion | To complete the production process, you can set the status of the production/process order to technically complete and you can complete the order settlement. When an order is settled, the actual costs incurred for the order are settled to one or more receiver cost-objects (for example, to the account for the material produced or to a sales order). Technical completion means ending a production order from a logistical viewpoint. The following actions are executed for orders with this status: The order is no longer relevant for MRP; Reservations are deleted; Capacity requirements are deleted; Purchase requisitions for external operations or non-stock materials are deleted; The order and its operations are set to Technically Completed. An order with this status can no longer be changed. You can however, still make postings for the order such as a material withdrawal or a confirmation. After closing the order, no further updates are possible. |

**⚠ 限制与注意事项 (Constraints / Notes)**:
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### 3.11.3.2 Production Execution
> 📄 FSD Reference: p140

**业务背景 (Business Background)**:
This process enables you to make all the necessary preparations required for production and to document the production progress. It is typically performed by the shop floor specialist and includes the following tasks: Material staging before production starts; Reporting goods withdrawals; Processing time tickets for a production order or a process order; Entering the goods receipt information for the order on completion of the product.

**核心功能 (Key Features)**:

| 功能 (Feature) | 说明 (Use / Description) |
|---------------|------------------------|
| Monitoring released production orders/process orders | You can display the released production/process orders. This means that you have access to all the information required to produce the product including dates, times, and quantities, for example. You can also print the production/process orders and you can send the printed version by e-mail. |
| Picking | You can using the picking function to determine which components have not yet been issued from stock for an order and then you can perform the goods issue. You can also print the pick list and you can send the printed version by e-mail. |
| Confirming production | You can confirm the production progress for production and process orders. A confirmation documents the processing status of orders and triggers the following business operations, for example: Updates order data (quantities, activities, dates, status, for example); Backflushes material components; Posts goods receipts; Updates costs. You can cancel or partially cancel confirmations. You can reprocess goods movements. |

**⚠ 限制与注意事项 (Constraints / Notes)**:
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**关联Scope Items**: —

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### 3.11.3.3 Repetitive Manufacturing
> 📄 FSD Reference: p141

**业务背景 (Business Background)**:
You can use Repetitive Manufacturing for planning and controlling your production in repetitive manufacturing and flow manufacturing environments. In repetitive manufacturing, you can plan and monitor the material flow in a much higher level of detail than that at which you collect and analyze costs. You use planned orders to model, plan, and trigger material flow and product cost collectors to collect costs. Planned orders are simple and easy to manage with low overhead which you can use to model small increments of the production quantity. The product cost collectors collect the costs of the complete quantity produced during an accounting period. All deviations are aggregated. On the other hand, in discrete manufacturing, you plan and manage both the material flow and costs on the same level of detail in the production order, for example. Therefore, if you want to collect scrap and other deviations in detail, you are recommended to use discrete manufacturing. You can use repetitive manufacturing in the following scenarios: Make-to-stock production; Make-to-order production. The business process includes analysis, material requirements planning, and the evaluation of the planning results. You can carry out extensive planning steps such as the MRP run in the background or manually.

**核心功能 (Key Features)**:

| 功能 (Feature) | 说明 (Use / Description) |
|---------------|------------------------|
| Planning table | Your main planning tool in repetitive manufacturing is the planning table. It is an operative planning tool that you can use to plan the production quantities. In the planning run, the system assigns the run schedule quantities to the correct line as defined in the production version. In the planning table, you can change the assignment of run schedule quantities to production lines/versions manually. You can check production quantities, monitor the available capacity of the production lines and check up on the availability situation of the products produced on each line. In the planning table, you can enter and change production quantities and you can assign and reassign quantities to alternative production lines. You can change the planned orders/run schedule quantities created in MRP manually (such as quantity/date changes), or you can create additional orders. You can assign unassigned production quantities to the production lines or reassign production quantities to different production lines. Because planning is often carried out on the basis of shifts, the planning table also has functions for distributing production quantities across shifts. |
| Staging materials using the pull list | You can use the pull list to control the in-house flow of material for supplying production with materials. A prerequisite for this is that the components required for production are already available (either produced in-house or procured externally) and must only be brought from their current storage location to the production storage location. The pull list checks the stock situation at the production storage location and calculates the quantities of missing parts. You can create replenishment elements for these missing parts. You can stage the components by direct stock transfer or stock transfer reservation. You can also trigger replenishment by setting a kanban to empty or by creating transfer requirements in Warehouse Management. |
| Confirming production for repetitive manufacturing | Separate tools are available for recording work progress in a repetitive manufacturing environment. In accordance with the requirements of this type of production, the confirmation process is very lean. You have the option of deferring the entry of all actual data from production until the receipt of the finished part is recorded by a goods receipt confirmation. In the case of make-to-stock repetitive manufacturing, you also have the option of posting a reporting point confirmation at defined operations to record the stock of semifinished products in production. You can couple the following processes in a goods receipt confirmation: Posting of goods receipts for finished products; Posting of goods issues for the components (backflushing); Reduction of planned orders; Posting of production costs to the product cost collector; Updating of statistics for analytical purposes. You can also cancel incorrect confirmations and reprocess goods movements. |
| Analyze the product cost collector | You can analyze the costs per period. This means that you collect costs in a cost object over a long period of time and can analyze the credits and debits for certain periods. |
| Perform evaluations/reporting | You can create the following evaluations: Reporting point overview (a statistical overview of all the reporting points of a production version); Backflushing documents (documents are saved in the system for all backflushes, you can list and print these documents according to various selection criteria); Updating planned quantities; Call cost reports in Cost Object Controlling. |

**⚠ 限制与注意事项 (Constraints / Notes)**:
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**关联Scope Items**: —

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### 3.11.3.4 Kanban
> 📄 FSD Reference: p144

**业务背景 (Business Background)**:
Kanban is a procedure for controlling production and material flow based on physical material stock in production. Material that is required on a regular basis is kept available in small quantities in production. With kanban, the replenishment or production of a material is only triggered when a certain quantity of the material has been consumed. This replenishment is triggered directly by production using previously maintained master data. Entries in the system are reduced to a minimum and all other actions are carried out automatically in the background. With kanban, the production process is designed to control itself and the manual posting effort is kept to a minimum. Thus, you can achieve shorter lead times and reductions in stock levels. With kanban, the signal for material replenishment is triggered by the work center that requires the material (the consumer or the demand source). This card describes the required material, quantity, and information on where it is to be delivered. Compared to the basic kanban process that only uses boxes and cards to trigger material replenishment, this automated solution offers the following advantages: Goods movements are posted automatically meaning that inventory information is always up to date; Your supply sources are informed faster about the requirements situation at the demand source; The system collects data about the kanban cycle times that you can use to improve the process.

**核心功能 (Key Features)**:

| 功能 (Feature) | 说明 (Use / Description) |
|---------------|------------------------|
| Control cycle maintenance | You define the relationship between the demand source (such as a production line in production) and the supply source (such as an external supplier or warehouse) in the control cycle. The control cycle contains the following control data for kanban production: Kanban circulation, that is, the number of kanbans that circulate between the supply source and demand source and the material quantity per kanban; Basic data required for the automatic kanban calculation in the control cycle, if necessary; Replenishment strategy such as in-house production, external source, or stock transfer; Printing kanbans, if necessary; Delivery address, if necessary; Process control (such as the indicator for separate goods receipt, status sequence key, indicator for the logic to trigger the replenishment for one-card kanban, packing instructions, and production call profiles). |
| Kanban status change (Confirmation) | You can control the production process by setting your kanbans to the appropriate status. You mainly use the statuses empty and full which are mandatory statuses. When a material in a kanban has been used up, you set the kanban status to empty which automatically triggers the replenishment process. The source of supply (producer, supplier) receives the signal to fill up the kanban. When you receive the full kanban back at the demand source (consumer), you set the kanban status to full which triggers the goods receipt posting for the material. Additional optional statuses available: Waiting; In process; In transit; In use; Error. |
| Monitoring with the kanban board | You can use the kanban board to monitor production progress. Irrespective of whether you are the supply source or the demand source, the kanban board provides you with a detailed overview of the kanbans in circulation. You can also use the kanban board to change the status of the kanbans. The following additional information is available: display the control cycle, material, plant, actual quantity, status, date of the last status change by double-clicking the individual kanbans; display the control cycle data; navigate to the stock/requirements list, the stock overview, or the material master for a control cycle; trigger the kanban correction facility for a control cycle. |
| Cost accounting for Kanban | You have various options for controlling cost accounting for kanban with in-house production depending on which replenishment elements are used: Run schedule quantities: costs are collected in a product cost collector and can be settled periodically in product costing; Manual kanban: costs are also collected in a product cost collector; Production orders or process orders: costs are either collected in a product cost collector or settled to the individual production/process orders. Updates to the actual costs at the product cost collector can be triggered by logistical transactions (such as goods issues or confirmations) for production/process orders and run schedule headers. Period-end closing: charge the product cost collector by means of template allocation; revaluate the activities at actual prices; calculate overhead; calculate the value of unfinished products (WIP) for the period; calculate the variances; settle the work in process and variances to other application components. |

**⚠ 限制与注意事项 (Constraints / Notes)**:
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**关联Scope Items**: J44

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### 3.11.3.5 Outsourced Manufacturing

#### 3.11.3.5.1 Basic Subcontracting
> 📄 FSD Reference: p147

**业务背景 (Business Background)**:
Basic subcontracting provides you with the means to instruct a supplier or subcontractor to process a material for which you provide the components. When procuring materials externally, you use subcontracting purchase orders or schedule lines to alleviate capacity bottlenecks. Subcontracting purchase orders/schedule lines instruct your subcontractor to make a certain finished material using the components that you provide and potentially using additional components provided by the subcontractor.

**核心功能 (Key Features)**:

| 功能 (Feature) | 说明 (Use / Description) |
|---------------|------------------------|
| Planning materials to be made by a subcontractor | This feature enables you to plan your materials that are produced by a subcontractor. In the planning run, the system creates subcontracting purchase requisitions or schedule lines for the material which is made by the subcontractor, explodes the BOM of these materials, and creates subcontracting requirements. You may have more than one subcontractor that supplies one material and they may require different components to be provided while they procure the other components themselves. In this case, you have to create several production versions that cover the needs of your different subcontractors. The purchasing info record of the subcontractor references the appropriate production version. |
| Planning materials to be provided to sub-contractor | This feature enables you to plan the parts to be provided to your subcontractor. You can create an MRP area for each subcontractor which simplifies the planning process if you have several subcontractors. When planning the component materials with subcontracting MRP areas, the system checks whether the subcontracting requirements can be covered by existing inventory at your subcontractor's or whether you have already sent the parts to be provided to your subcontractor. |
| Triggering the provisioning of the materials to be provided to subcontractor (subcontracting cockpit) | This feature provides you with a comprehensive overview of all relevant information about your subcontracting process. It provides a single entry point for all documents related to your subcontracting process providing direct access to the following features: You can choose whether you want to send your components to the sub-contractor using the one-step procedure, or the two-step procedure. You can check directly whether your components are already at the subcontractor's site, or still on the way there; You can check which components are currently in the subcontracting stock; When you create a subcontracting order, you can change the shipping point for the outbound delivery, or change the batch number; For each purchase order item, you can display additional information such as the production order, the number of the external operation, or the operation text. For each purchase order item, you can create an outbound delivery. You can also process the following documents centrally in the Subcontracting Cockpit: Purchase orders; Purchase requisitions; Outbound deliveries with open goods issues; Reservations; External deliveries (subcontracting components that are prepared by a third party). Key data such as the supplier, material, or plant is displayed for each of these documents. |
| Goods receipt for parts made at subcontractor | The goods receipt of the subcontracting purchase order/schedule line triggers updates to inventory, purchasing statistics and so on. In addition, the system backflushes the components that were provided to the subcontractor. |
| Sending advanced shipping notification | You can send advanced shipping notification to a subcontracting supplier registered on an external procurement system (currently, Ariba Network) and receive proof of delivery. |

**⚠ 限制与注意事项 (Constraints / Notes)**:
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#### 3.11.3.5.2 Basic External Processing
> 📄 FSD Reference: p149

**业务背景 (Business Background)**:
Basic external processing provides you with the means to instruct a supplier or subcontractor to process individual production steps such as operations or sub-operations. The external processing of production order operations is frequently used for standardized process steps such as galvanizing which you cannot perform in your own factory. In the case of galvanizing, you may have environmental reasons for outsourcing this step to your subcontractor. It does not matter to the subcontractor which material IDs are produced. The subcontractor is only responsible for processing (galvanizing) a certain quantity of (metal) pieces.

**核心功能 (Key Features)**:

| 功能 (Feature) | 说明 (Use / Description) |
|---------------|------------------------|
| Planning externally processed operations | When you convert a planned order into a production order, the system checks to see whether there are any routing/work center operations that require external processing. You can use external processing if you have individual production steps that are operations or sub-operations which are performed outside of your company by a supplier. This provides you with an alternative to in-house production if capacity bottlenecks occur. You can use an outline agreement to specify that a certain operation of the production order is executed by an external subcontractor on a regular basis. |
| Scheduling externally processed operations | When you perform scheduling, the system takes account of any external operations. The duration of an external operation is calculated either by using the planned delivery time or using the standard values. The system automatically creates a purchase requisition for the operation or sub-operation that requires external processing. This requisition is automatically updated with any quantity changes made to the production order. You should not convert the purchase requisition into a purchase order until the external processing is actually required. The reason for this is that any quantity changes made in the production order will automatically update the requisition. Once you have created the purchase order, it is printed and sent to the supplier. |
| Triggering the provisioning (subcontracting cockpit) | This feature provides you with a comprehensive overview of all relevant information about your subcontracting process — single entry point for all documents related to your subcontracting process. (See 3.11.3.5.1 for full description.) |
| Valuating externally processed operations | When data is maintained for an external activity, a cost element is specified. The cost element determines how the external activity is to be valuated. A decision needs to be made whether an operation or suboperation is processed externally via its control key. The control key determines whether externally processed operations are scheduled on the basis of their standard values or the planned delivery time. This information is needed to settle externally processed operations and suboperations that have been marked as relevant for costing in their control keys. |
| Goods receipt | When the supplier has completed the external processing, the material is shipped back. You receive the externally processed goods back into the warehouse. The supplier service is reflected in the production order by means of an operation confirmation. The purchase order and the production order both show the quantity received and the system updates the status of the operation accordingly. |

**⚠ 限制与注意事项 (Constraints / Notes)**:
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### 3.11.3.6 Just-In-Time (JIT) Supply to Customer
> 📄 FSD Reference: p152

**业务背景 (Business Background)**:
Just-in-Time (JIT) processing is a common practice in manufacturing industries for efficient demand-driven production and logistics across supply chains. Just-In-Time Supply to Customer covers JIT processes from the perspective of a supplier. The JIT process is based on sales scheduling agreements that cover the commercial and planning aspects of the business relationship between supplier and customer. Based on their production and material requirements planning, the customer sends JIT calls to the supplier to request a delivery of goods.

**核心功能 (Key Features)**:

| 功能 (Feature) | 说明 (Use / Description) |
|---------------|------------------------|
| Master data for JIT processing | You define various master data specifically for processing JIT calls from your customers, enabling you to manage customer JIT calls with respect to business requirements. |
| Managing sales scheduling agreements for JIT processing | You maintain sales scheduling agreements for JIT processing for the materials requested by customers. It enables you to specify terms and conditions with regards to sales, delivery and billing, and to create delivery schedules received from your customer as forecasts to plan production and procurement. |
| Managing customer JIT calls | You create a customer JIT call after receiving the JIT call from your customer. The customer JIT call is created either as summarized JIT call or sequenced JIT call. In case the customer sends a JIT call update or cancellation, you can modify or cancel the customer JIT call. For a sequenced JIT call, the customer could reorder components and you can create an additional sequenced JIT call indicated as reorder. For customers requesting highly configurable assemblies or sets using a list of components, the corresponding JIT call components requested can be grouped to component groups using business rules. Based on how you define the packing of component groups for sequenced JIT calls, you can group JIT calls to be packed together and assign it to slots within the packaging material, based on the sequence of withdrawal at the customer. JIT calls can be viewed at component groups' level. |
| Managing packing groups for sequenced JIT calls | You can create packing groups for sequenced JIT calls and also monitor their progress and status as further processing takes place. Certain actions can be performed on the packing groups. |
| Managing production for customer JIT calls | In case production should be executed based on customer JIT calls, the feature enables you to release customer JIT calls to production and confirm production thereafter. |
| Processing outbound deliveries for customer JIT calls | You can create outbound deliveries for customer JIT calls and process these further from picking to goods issue posting. When notifying the shipping to the customer, you can refer to the customer JIT calls also. |
| Analysis and monitoring | You can monitor the receipt and further progress of customer JIT calls. For that, the progress is reflected by status updates as the JIT call is processed, such as when confirming production or creating outbound deliveries. You could also analyze the demand provided by customers for deviations as compared to the received JIT calls. The availability of stock for materials requested as components in customer JIT calls can be analyzed to detect potential shortfalls in supply to your customers. |
| Managing delivery confirmations to customer JIT calls | You can receive JIT delivery confirmations from your customers, referring to customer JIT calls already delivered. You can monitor and release these for further processing towards billing or self-billing. |
| Scheduling custom actions | You can schedule in advance the execution of custom actions for customer JIT calls. |
| Running sequence number checks | Sequence number checks can be performed on sequenced JIT calls to avoid violations or gaps in the requested sequential delivery to customers. |
| Integration with Batch Management | When a material is defined as a batch material, each quantity of the material is assigned a batch number. |
| Background Job for Custom Actions | You can now schedule the background job for executing custom actions by selecting the time range dynamically. |
| Extended Scheduling with Business Process Scheduling (BPS) | As a master data specialist, you can maintain appropriate shift grouping and shift sequences for each delivery sequence group. |
| Maintenance of Verification Profile | When setting up the verification profile for processing of packing groups using the component group team category, you can maintain the level of the packing group from which scanning must start. |
| Alternative Actions | While scanning during production execution or packing, you can opt for an alternative action when facing delays or stoppages. |

**⚠ 限制与注意事项 (Constraints / Notes)**:
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**关联Scope Items**: 3OK

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## 3.11.4 Quality Management

### 3.11.4.1 Quality Planning
> 📄 FSD Reference: p154

**业务背景 (Business Background)**:
Quality planning helps you to ensure the quality of your products, processes, and services right from the start. During the early stages of product design and development, it is important to have the correct quality tools and to implement appropriate quality-planning strategies in your processes.

**核心功能 (Key Features)**:

| 功能 (Feature) | 说明 (Use / Description) |
|---------------|------------------------|
| Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) | You can use this feature when planning new products and processes. It enables you to prevent and avoid defects. You can perform a risk valuation and derive quality-specific actions that ensure high levels of quality. |
| Quality-related master data | For quality planning purposes, you define specifications and processes on a long-term basis as master records. You can define quality-related data for generic master data records, for example, material or supplier. |
| Inspection planning | You use the inspection planning functions to define inspection criteria (for example, material to be inspected, how the inspection is to take place, characteristics to be inspected). |

**⚠ 限制与注意事项 (Constraints / Notes)**:
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### 3.11.4.2 Quality Inspection
> 📄 FSD Reference: p154

**业务背景 (Business Background)**:
Quality management deals with quality inspection activities in procurement, in manufacturing, in stock handling processes, and in sales. If the material is specified accordingly, an inspection lot is created in the following cases: When a goods receipt is posted; When a material is received from production or during the production process itself; When a material is posted to quality inspection stock; When an outbound delivery is created.

**核心功能 (Key Features)**:

| 功能 (Feature) | 说明 (Use / Description) |
|---------------|------------------------|
| Inspection lot creation | An inspection lot represents the request to perform a quality inspection. An inspection lot can be created manually, or the creation can be triggered automatically during the different logistical processes. |
| Inspection execution | This feature allows you to record the results of an inspection, for example, for an inspection lot. You can record results in different ways, for example, for one or several inspection characteristics in several inspection lots at a time or using the optimized table form. |
| Inspection completion | Once the inspection results have been recorded, the inspection lot is completed with a usage decision. |
| Dynamic modification of the inspection scope | You can define rules so that the system automatically determines the scope of the next inspection depending on the latest inspection results. You can vary the sample size of the next inspection lot in stages between a predefined inspection scope and a skip. |
| Defects recording | This feature allows you to manually record defects and to manage defects that were automatically recorded during the inspection process. |
| Quality certificates | You can manage quality certificates for goods receipts and for outbound deliveries. |

**⚠ 限制与注意事项 (Constraints / Notes)**:
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### 3.11.4.3 Quality Improvement
> 📄 FSD Reference: p155

**业务背景 (Business Background)**:
Quality Improvement provides tools that form the basis for improving your processes and products. You can gain better insights into your inspection-related data, which helps you reach your quality goals.

**核心功能 (Key Features)**:

| 功能 (Feature) | 说明 (Use / Description) |
|---------------|------------------------|
| Quality notifications | This feature allows you to record and process complaints from customers and complaints against suppliers and to execute a problem-solving process. |
| Complaints against suppliers | This feature offers you an alternative way to record and process complaints against suppliers and use them as central objects for triggering and maintaining corresponding follow-up activities. |
| Nonconformance management | This feature enables you to record defects and manage or process defects that were recorded manually or automatically. To correct the defects and to prevent them from recurring, you can trigger and process tasks. |
| Internal problem-solving | You can resolve internal problems using the step-based 8D methodology. |
| Trigger external problem-solving | SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition supports the integration with a collaborative problem-solving system (currently SAP Quality Issue Resolution) to enable a collaborative problem-solving process, for example, together with suppliers. When the collaborative problem-solving system is integrated, you can trigger a problem-solving process from a quality notification to run in that system. |
| Quality analytics | You can perform different quality evaluations, for example: You can analyze inspection lots with regard to the usage decisions that have already been made; You can analyze inspection results that have been recorded for inspection characteristics; You can analyze defects (with and without assignment to a quality notification). |

**⚠ 限制与注意事项 (Constraints / Notes)**:
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## 3.11.5 Environment, Health and Safety

### 3.11.5.1 Incident Management
> 📄 FSD Reference: p156

**业务背景 (Business Background)**:
You use the incident management solution to record and process incidents, near misses, and safety observations. After initially recording an incident, you can collect additional information from the people involved, investigate why an incident occurred, track the financial impact on the organization and its assets, and define tasks for preventing further incidents. You can report data externally or internally to fulfill legal or company-specific reporting requirements, respectively. In addition, you can manage injury/illness log entries and perform comprehensive analyses of incidents, injuries and illnesses, and injury/illness log entries.

**核心功能 (Key Features)**:

*Managing Incidents*

| 功能 (Feature) | 说明 (Use / Description) |
|---------------|------------------------|
| Initial Recording of Incidents | You can record basic information about an incident, including a description of the events as well as information about people and assets that were involved in the incident. When the initial incident recording process is complete, the system notifies the processor who is responsible to trigger follow-on activities. You can summarize the initially recorded data in a print form. This document is assigned to the incident record, and you can use it as a reference during the review and completion step. |
| Reviewing and Completing Incident Records | You can directly access incident records to review and complete the information that was entered when the incident was initially recorded. You can add more information about the people involved, report data internally or externally, and define preventive and corrective tasks. |
| Investigating Incidents | You can carry out an incident investigation to determine the causes that led to an incident. |

*Managing Injury/Illness Log Entries*

You can enter and manage different kinds of medical assistance provided to employees at your company, such as first aid and treatment of minor injuries, as well as treatment of pre-existing injuries and aid given to employees who are not feeling well.

| 功能 (Feature) | 说明 (Use / Description) |
|---------------|------------------------|
| Creating and Editing Injury/Illness Log Entries | You can record and edit information about events that involve medical assistance. An injury/illness log entry can contain information such as the injured person and persons involved, first aid and follow-up treatment, event location and time of event, injuries, and treatment location. |
| Reporting an Incident Based on an Injury/Illness Log Entry | You can create an incident related to an existing injury/illness log entry and transfer the available data from the injury/illness log entry to the newly created incident. |

*Managing EHS Locations*

You can create and edit locations and specify a location hierarchy. You use locations, for example, to specify a workplace when an incident occurred.

| 功能 (Feature) | 说明 (Use / Description) |
|---------------|------------------------|
| Editing Location Structures | You can insert locations at different positions into the location structure to represent where these locations exist spatially or functionally in your company. The location structure also allows you to make mass changes to the attributes of multiple locations in one go, instead of having to maintain each location individually. |
| Editing Locations | You can add new locations to the location structure or edit the master data of locations that already exist within the structure. Location master data includes the plant or company code to which the location belongs, and the precise position of the location. For locations that have been created manually, you can also establish links to technical objects. |
| Importing Locations | If you want to reuse locations that exist as technical objects in a Plant Maintenance application, you can import them as locations into Environment, Health, and Safety Management. You can import locations and location structures from third-party sources. |

**⚠ 限制与注意事项 (Constraints / Notes)**:
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### 3.11.5.2 Environment Management
> 📄 FSD Reference: p158

**业务背景 (Business Background)**:
You use the environment management solution to organize environmental data and manage compliance with the applicable requirements for your company. You can keep record of your compliance information about requirements. The Environment Management solution allows you to streamline compliance planning by associating tasks with those requirements. You can monitor task processing and in case issues occur, you can create and manage the deviations. You can also analyze the processing of compliance tasks. Lastly, you can retrieve and analyze the environmental data by multiple criteria, such as date, location, plant, cost center.

**核心功能 (Key Features)**:

| 功能 (Feature) | 说明 (Use / Description) |
|---------------|------------------------|
| Managing Locations and Material Data | You can create your own locations to specify workplaces that are subject to compliance management. You can organize the locations in a hierarchical structure to easily maintain and edit their data. You can make mass changes to all locations at the same time. You can manage the role assignments of persons responsible across the location structure. To manage the environmental compliance of your company, you need to create and maintain material (product) data. The data is used in follow-up business processes, such as the setup of compliance scenario activities, to ensure that your company is compliant with the applicable environmental requirements. To specify the applicability of your location to specific environmental requirements, you can create and assign one or multiple location classifiers to it. Classifying and managing locations that you are responsible for is a starting point for all further processes supporting compliance management. |
| Managing Compliance Requirements | You can create compliance requirements to keep record of and track requirements from policies, permits, and regulations. You can import compliance requirement records and maintain existing ones that are applicable for your company. You can also copy existing compliance requirements — for example, compliance requirements that are delivered by SAP — and update them easily to reflect changes in regulations. In the compliance requirements, you can specify environmental limits, regulatory lists, and equations, which can be used later in the processes of managing and reporting emissions and ensuring compliance. You can also create and assign one or multiple location classifiers to a requirement that can help you assess the applicability of that requirement for your locations. |
| Managing Compliance Scenarios | You can create compliance scenarios and assign to them the applicable compliance requirements to the locations. To fulfill these requirements, you can create data collection, sampling, data calculation, and location aggregation activities. You can create and assign tasks to persons responsible for their completion to ensure the orderly running of industrial equipment and facilities at your locations. For convenience, you can assign tasks to a location role so that everyone with the respective role in the location receives the task for approval or further work on it. You can assign environmental limits to your compliance scenario activities so that the system can check the collected or calculated data based on these limits. |
| Managing Compliance Tasks | You can create tasks that are related to a compliance requirement. To trace your compliance to that requirement, you can make a reference between the created tasks and the requirement. You can reschedule tasks as needed or set task recurrence using one of two scheduling modes to manage compliance over time. You can also specify if a task starts on the same day it is due. |
| Processing Tasks | You receive the tasks assigned to you in your inbox and record their completion with comments and attachments. A task can be assigned to a specific business user or all users with a given location role. If you are the owner of multiple compliance tasks, you can monitor and process tasks and outcomes. |
| Monitoring Environmental Data | You can oversee the progress of environment-related tasks or monitor the environmental data recorded in the system. You can analyze the data. Additionally, you can forecast environmental data based on past data with the help of predictive learning algorithms and statistical methods. By comparing forecasted environmental data against environmental limits, you can get an early indication of future deviation incidents or noncompliance. |
| Reporting | You can create environmental reports and get a summary of the available environmental data in the system. You can plan and assign persons responsible for report generation and approval and track the report lifecycle with a task report workflow. You can also classify the data to allow for easy filtering and monitoring of reporting status across locations. You can use the reports to fulfill legal and internal reporting requirements. |
| Managing Deviations | In case of deviations, you can create deviation incidents to record, investigate, and report abnormal or incorrect equipment operation that may lead to noncompliance. For better traceability, you can create a deviation incident directly as a follow-up of a task. You can plan corrective and preventive measures to avoid future noncompliance. |
| Analyzing Compliance | You can analyze the environmental data in the system from compliance scenario activities by location, data type, and other relevant criteria. You can export the data for further checks or reporting purposes. Additionally, you can analyze the processing of tasks related to compliance requirements, group them by status, location, compliance requirement type. You can adapt your task analysis by adding multiple steps to it. This way, you can have an up-to-date overview of compliance requirement tasks. |

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#### 3.11.5.2.1 Waste Management
> 📄 FSD Reference: p161

**业务背景 (Business Background)**:
The waste management solution supports you in establishing transparent operations that ensure and validate a compliant waste management process within your company. This includes: Central repository for all waste management related compliance requirements; Streamlined processes for master data and on-site management, planning of shipment, transportation of waste for disposal, and reporting of waste related activities; Deep integration into SAP S/4HANA business data and processes; User interface with guided tours to support users.

**核心功能 (Key Features)**:

| 功能 (Feature) | 说明 (Use / Description) |
|---------------|------------------------|
| Managing Material Data | You can create new waste materials and manage their data. You can assign waste codes to waste materials. Waste codes are required for the creation of waste disposal documents that meet compliance requirements. |
| Managing Transporters and Disposers | You can assign business partners as transporters and disposers. You can assign waste materials to the business partners' facilities. The waste materials can then be disposed of there. |
| Creating and Managing Waste Transfer Requests | You can create internal waste transfer requests when a waste container is full as part of your on-site waste management. A subsequent notification is triggered and sent to the Environmental Manager to process the request. They can also receive notifications regarding the movement and storage periods of waste materials in the waste containers. |
| Managing Waste Streams and Defining Waste Disposal Channels | You can create waste streams to define which location has which type of waste that will be generated. Additionally, you can specify the disposal information in the form of a disposal channels assigned to a waste stream. |
| Managing Waste Transportation Documents | You can prepare and generate the necessary waste transportation documents required for compliance. You can use various filters to search for specific waste transportation documents and update their data. |
| Access Data from External Systems | You can e-send and receive waste transportation documents via the included API. |

**⚠ 限制与注意事项 (Constraints / Notes)**:
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#### 3.11.5.2.2 Audit and Inspection Management
> 📄 FSD Reference: p162

**业务背景 (Business Background)**:
You use the Audit and Inspection Management solution to carry out inspections that support your company's compliance with external or internal product standards and regulations. In Audit and Inspection Management, you identify areas of nonconformity within your organization, address the root causes, and implement corrective and preventive actions (CAPAs) to ensure continuous compliance and transparency.

**核心功能 (Key Features)**:

| 功能 (Feature) | 说明 (Use / Description) |
|---------------|------------------------|
| Conducting Inspections | You use this feature to perform inspections using questionnaires or checklists to assess compliance with defined standards and regulations. |
| Managing Findings and CAPAs | You can document inspection findings, categorize them based on severity and impact, identify root causes, and define corrective and preventive actions (CAPAs). |
| Reviewing and Tracking Results | You can review submitted findings and monitor CAPA implementation and effectiveness. |

**⚠ 限制与注意事项 (Constraints / Notes)**:
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### 3.11.5.3 Health and Safety Management
> 📄 FSD Reference: p163

**业务背景 (Business Background)**:
The Health and Safety Management solution helps you to maintain a safe workplace environment for employees at your company. You can create safety instructions for handling certain equipment or substances to keep employees informed about protocols on health, safety, and personal protection. You can also perform systematic risk assessments and analyze job-related hazards to keep your risk treatment measures optimized and up to date. The solution also enables you to create and manage requests for the approval of new chemicals in your company. This feature helps ensure thorough evaluation of all chemicals for safety.

**核心功能 (Key Features)**:

| 功能 (Feature) | 说明 (Use / Description) |
|---------------|------------------------|
| Managing Risk Assessments | You can perform risk assessments to identify, evaluate, and treat risks to the health and safety of employees working at your company. You can also create new revisions of risk assessments to follow up on selected risks and monitor them after the initial assessment. |
| Managing Safety Instructions | You can create and revise safety instructions to keep employees at your company safe when working with equipment or substances. |
| Analyzing Job Hazards | You can identify job-based risks and apply the necessary controls to treat them. You can also create new revisions of a job hazard analysis to follow up on selected risks and monitor them after the initial analysis. |
| Managing Jobs | You can use this feature to manage health and safety relevant jobs performed in your company. |
| Requesting Chemical Approvals | You can use the approval process for chemicals to ensure that new chemicals that are introduced in your company are approved from a health, safety, and environmental aspect before they are used. This approval process encompasses multiple checks carried out by various parties. |
| Managing the Use of Chemicals | You can search for and display all chemicals with a completed request for approval. An overview shows whether the use of a chemical is permitted, forbidden, or expired at a selected location and provides detailed use information such as validity time, consumption, purposes, and methods of use. In addition, it is possible to expand an existing approval. |
| Getting an Overview of Hazardous Substances | In an overview of hazardous substances, you can display approved chemicals sorted by purpose or method of use and view open requests as well as your own requests for chemical approval. |
| View Workplace-Related Safety Information | You can directly access important safety information for an employee's individual workplace. This includes the emergency contacts for the respective location as well as information on the potential risks and the required personal protective equipment related to a location and, if applicable, a job. |

**⚠ 限制与注意事项 (Constraints / Notes)**:
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### 3.11.5.4 Occupational Health
> 📄 FSD Reference: p164

**业务背景 (Business Background)**:
You use the Occupational Health solution to support general employee occupational healthcare in your enterprise. In Occupational Health, you use locations to specify health centers and health service providers. A health center is a location where health-related treatments and consultations are performed. Health centers are driven by health service providers. These can be either internal or external providers. They are also created as locations and assigned to the health centers in the location structure. You can edit the location structure to build an occupational health related hierarchy of your health centers.

**核心功能 (Key Features)**:

| 功能 (Feature) | 说明 (Use / Description) |
|---------------|------------------------|
| Managing Locations for Health Centers | You use this feature to maintain locations for health centers. Physicians and other occupational health related person roles can be assigned directly to health centers. |
| Managing Locations for Health Service Providers | You use this feature to maintain locations for health service providers. If the health service providers are external, you can assign a business partner to enable the integration with SAP Business Partner. |
| Managing Health Center Structure | You can edit the location structure and create health centers and health service providers. |

**⚠ 限制与注意事项 (Constraints / Notes)**:
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### 3.11.5.5 Management of Change
> 📄 FSD Reference: p165

**业务背景 (Business Background)**:
More and more companies have realized that changes can have a negative impact not just on people or the environment but on the business itself. A change to improve one business objective often has unintended negative consequences on another business objective, be it product quality, safety, or operational costs. Management of Change helps you manage and streamline changes to products, procedures, processes, and equipment. You can monitor and organize reviews, approvals, and other actions necessary to implement the change, such as updating documentation, training materials, or master data. Employees can communicate change requests easily. Based on standard templates, you can decrease implementation and adoption costs and ensure that the company-specific or industry-specific change procedures are followed. As a result, the business can make changes that facilitate growth — without disrupting operations or harming employees, assets, or the environment.

**核心功能 (Key Features)**:

| 功能 (Feature) | 说明 (Use / Description) |
|---------------|------------------------|
| Creating Change Requests | You can request a change and provide basic information, such as a description of the change. |

**⚠ 限制与注意事项 (Constraints / Notes)**:
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*Document faithfully extracted from SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2602 Feature Scope Description (v2.0, 2026-03-12), pages 131–165. All Business Background paragraphs and Key Feature descriptions are verbatim from the source document.*
