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Vehicle Model as Copy Template for Vehicles
When you create a vehicle, the system copies data from the vehicle model to the vehicle. If you change a vehicle model, the changes do not affect data already copied from the vehicle model to a vehicle.
There are optional fields, for example regarding fuel consumption, engine performance, and the number of doors. If this information is not the same for all vehicles of a certain vehicle model, do not populate these fields. These fields are then empty when you create a vehicle based on this vehicle model.
You can use the Business Add-In /DBE/BADI_VEHICLE_API to determine how data is copied from the vehicle model to a vehicle. The relevant methods are BEFORE_VEHICLE_SET and BEFORE_VEHICLE_SAVE.
As vehicle model data is simply copied from the vehicle model to the vehicle, you can change the information copied in the vehicle master afterwards. This means that values defined in the model master are proposed values.
The fact that you can change values in the vehicle master, including those copied from model master can mean that the values in the vehicle master are not the same as those in the model master. If you do not want to allow this situation, you can ensure that the values copied from model master to vehicle master cannot be changed in the vehicle master. To do this, you must change the UI of vehicle master as described in SAP Note 900850.
Model Catalog
In DBEVSS, vehicle models are grouped in model catalogs. You can, for example, define a model catalog for each vehicle brand.
In Customizing, you can define model catalogs and also specify how the system determines model catalogs. In the standard system, the model catalog is assigned the combination of division and country, and is determined accordingly.
When working in the vehicle model (transaction /DBE/VMODEL), usually the first step is to select the model catalog that you want to work with. If a certain user generally works on models of one model catalog, you can assign this model catalog to the user by using parameter ID /DBE/MCATALOG in the Parameters tab of the Maintain User Profile screen (transaction SU3).
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- If you do not enter any text in a given language, the text in the language of the vehicle reference material is used for the descriptions of the new material in the material master.
- When the selected language you use for the model text is not present in the description of the reference material, the text entered into the Model Text 1 field is added to the description of the new material in the material master.
- When the selected language you use for the model text is present in the description of the reference material, and you enter a text in the Model Text 1 field, the newly entered text is used for the description of the new material in material master.
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Features
The features, also called options, are mainly used to describe vehicles in more detail. In DBEVSS, this functionality replaces the variant configuration.
The features defined in model master are the features which are made available in vehicle master when you use the input help. The vehicle master does not check if the values you enter are contained in the list of predefined features in vehicle model master. This is based on the assumption that the vehicle model master data cannot always be kept up to date so that vehicles with other features than those predefined in vehicle model master need to be created.
The materials assigned to features are used for the creation of items in DBE VSS vehicle orders and vehicle quotations.
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Enhancement Concept
You can enhance the vehicle model master with additional fields. For more information, see SAP Note 929089.
The following Business Add-Ins (BAdIs) are available:
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