Customizing
The most important configuration tool is the Implementation Guide ( IMG). You can use the IMG to make all configurations possible in the SAP standard. Any modifications you make to the SAP software in the IMG are known as Customizing settings, or Customizing for short. This includes setting up organizational units (company codes, plants, sales organizations, and so on) and making settings for controlling business processes.
The IMG splits the various Customizing settings into IMG activities and displays them in a hierarchical overview. This overview shows the recommended process flow and assignment to the different applications of the SAP System. The IMG lets you filter out the relevant IMG activities for a particular section of the SAP applications. You can also group IMG activities logically into IMG Projects. These projects are then worked on as an implementation project by a particular team. You can document the requirements of a project and its progress in the IMG Project.
The changes that you make in the IMG are placed in the Customizing tables of the SAP database. The contents of these tables are known as Customizing data. When you use the SAP applications productively, the SAP runtime system analyzes this Customizing data and uses it to control your business processes.
Most Customizing data is client-specific. This means that you can choose different Customizing settings for each client in your SAP System that do not affect each other. Changes to the Customizing settings in one client have no effect on system actions in another client.
However, there is also a significant amount of cross-client Customizing data that is relevant for all clients (such as the factory calendar). Note that if you change these types of Customizing settings, it affects all clients in the SAP System.
<b>When you change any objects above said will require customizing transport if you want to move changes to other client or system</b>
Workbench
If the configuration options in the SAP standard are not enough to meet your requirements, you can also add to the SAP standard functions. SAP provides the ABAP Workbench as a complete programming environment. The ABAP Workbench includes tools for defining data structures (ABAP Dictionary), developing ABAP programs (ABAP Editor) and designing interfaces (Screen Painter and Menu Painter), as well as many other functions.
For example, you can use the ABAP Workbench to develop your own report programs or transactions, or to modify or make your own enhancements to existing SAP programs. These enhancements are known as customer exits. However, this does require experience of the ABAP Workbench and the SAP application where you want to develop.
The changes that you make in the ABAP Workbench are placed in the Repository tables of the SAP database. The contents of these tables are known as Repository data or Repository objects. Apart from a few exceptions, the Repository data is cross-client. As with cross-client Customizing, changes to Repository objects affect all clients of an SAP System.
<b>When you change any objects above said will require workbench transport if you want to move changes to other client or system</b>
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