SAP ABAP Data Element XTAGE (Applicability Period)
Hierarchy
☛ BBPCRM (Software Component) BBPCRM
   ⤷ CRM (Application Component) Customer Relationship Management
     ⤷ CRM_APPLICATION (Package) All CRM Components Without Special Structure Packages
       ⤷ MEL (Package) Vendor Evaluation
Basic Data
Data Element XTAGE
Short Description Applicability Period  
Data Type
Category of Dictionary Type D   Domain
Type of Object Referenced     No Information
Domain / Name of Reference Type CHAR3    
Data Type CHAR   Character String 
Length 3    
Decimal Places 0    
Output Length 3    
Value Table      
Further Characteristics
Search Help: Name    
Search Help: Parameters    
Parameter ID   
Default Component name    
Change document    
No Input History    
Basic direction is set to LTR    
No BIDI Filtering    
Field Label
  Length  Field Label  
Short 10 Appl. Per. 
Medium 15 Applic. Period 
Long 20 Applicability Period 
Heading 55 Applicability Period 
Documentation

Definition

Period in calendar days within which data is to be taken into consideration for vendor evaluation purposes.

Examples

If you enter the value 150 here, the system will take into account data from the past 150 days for vendor evaluation purposes. Data that is more than 150 days old will not be included in the evaluation process.

Use

The applicability period is not taken into account with respect to all vendor evaluation criteria:

  • The applicability period is taken into consideration as described in the example when the scores for the following criteria are computed:
    • GR lots
    • Complaints level
    • Semi-automatic criteria
  • The applicability period is not taken into consideration for the following criteria:
    • Price level
    • Price history
  • If new data is available within the applicability period for the following criteria, all data is applied for evaluation purposes. If no data is available, these criteria are not rated:
    • Quantity reliability
    • On-time delivery performance
    • Variance from shipping notification
    • Shipping instructions
    • Quality audit
    • Timeliness of service provision
    • Quality of service provision

History
Last changed by/on SAP  19980218 
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