Often you require maintaining certain transactions which calls customizing table in the live production system.

For example:

• Maintain exchange rates
• Opening and closing the period
• Maintain overhead rates
• Maintain assessment cycle in cost center accounting and profitability analysis.

These transactions actually require to be maintained every month or every year and as such are needless to be transported from the development system every time. But a live production system is a non modifiable client and is not open for customizing. Then how do you go about maintaining the aforesaid transactions which requires to be maintained directly in the production system?

This article on Customizing directly in production (843) will provide you with all the steps required to maintain the customizing directly in Production. use this manual at your own risk.

A Business Configuration Set is a set of Customizing settings Which are grouped according to logical, business management criteria to a unit. For documentary, quality assurance and re-use purposes Which is independent of the original Customizing tables/views Which is accessible across the system landscape.

Briefly: BC Sets are snapshots of Customizing settings

BC Sets have been used successfully in the following scenarios:

• Global Rollout
• Customizing Distribution in mySAP.com
• Quick installation of demo systems
• Customizing Upgrade
• Definition of IMG/process relationships
• Customizing delivery independent of release cycles.
• Documentation / Quality Assurance.
• Preconfiguration.
• Customizing Versioning.

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