CA85N: A transaction to perform mass

change of work centers.

There have been many discussions / queries when mass changes of master data need to be performed.
Usually the focus will go to CEWB transaction. This is a tricky / complex transaction, especially for beginners /
users. There have been cases where people usually tend to go for LSMW / BDC when mass update of master
data requirement comes up.
The purpose of this document is just to point out an easy option, if the update requirement is more of straight
forward changes. CA85N transaction tremendously helps users to make the mass routing changes without
much of expertise.
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1 Screen: Selection criteria

The initial screen provides selection criteria option as below:

There are further selection options for people who want to modify materials with specific values:

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ie., click on the more options bar at the bottom. This will show Task list header. Drill down to
find the detailed selection criteria. Choose the one which you require and provide the selection
values.
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2 Screen: New Values

This is the tab where you can enter the new values / modified values

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Example: I wanted to change the setup time of some of the materials to 20 mins.
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I have done the material selection in 1 screen and enter the value to be updated in the 2

screen.

In addition, if you want to change say base quantity and Control key for the selected materials,
then click on more options bar at the bottom and choose the field values.

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3 Screen: Options
This is an optional screen. You can choose the action parameters and display options in this screen.
I would like to see in Grid format, so I always choose Grid. There are list options as well.
Click on execute
The list of materials will be shown. Choose the items you want to update and click on Mass
Change

If you go back and check the materials, the details will be shown as updated:

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Choose another material from the above list:

Short note on technical details:

ABAP Report affected: CP_OPR_MASS_CHANGE
Update operation logic: CP_OMC_MC_MASSCHANGE
The data upload is internally using the same details as that of Change Engineering workbench. The T-code
simplifies the activities to an extent. In discrete manufacturing industry if you are managing heavy load of
master data, this will be a helpful T-code to work with.

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