I think instead of "feature" you meant "future".
I'm not sure I quite understand the requirement.
You want to create a stability study today. Let's say with 20 samples. Today all samples are maintained in a storage location that is normal temperature, say 70F. But come September 24, 2010 they willl start storing 5 of those samples in a cold storage locker (a different storage location) at 30F. You want the system to automatically handle this change of location on 24.09.2010.
Is this correct? I would say offhand, that no, SAP has no standard functionality for this. I would also suggest that this would be a very bad business process from a QM view and could very well jeopardize the validity of the stability study if reviewed by a regulatory agency, (at least the FDA would frown on it I'm sure).
If you were to set up such a system, there is no positive check that the samples were actually moved on the day they were supposed to be. What if the day happenned to fall on a weekend or holiday? What if the person who was supposed to do this called in sick? Got hit by the proverbial bus? Had an argument with the boss and just said "screw it"? Unlikely I know. But it happens.
And yes, someone could go into SAP and manually make the updates and then one of the above things happend and the samples still don't get moved. But that it is less likely if you have someone manally doing the SAP transaction.
What I could see however would be a process where a reminder is generated to make the moves. And then after the moves are done the user updates the system. This could probably be fairly easy to set up as a task (maybe right in the stability study via an action box), and if the task has an expected end date, workflow could be used to send reminders out or escalate the task to make sure the samples are moved.
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