Re: Configuration product lifecycle in sap

Hi,

I would recommend you have a look at the (cross-plant) material status and its related Customizing. This should help you with your product life-cycle status management:

http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_07/helpdata/en/ff/515dd249d811d182b80000e829fbfe/content.htm?frameset=/en/ff/515c2049d811d182b80000e829fbfe/frameset.htm&current_toc=/en/ff/516a6749d811d182b80000e829fbfe/plain.htm&node_id=42

On top of that, you could leverage SAP PLM Web UI Status and Action Management for managing the status changes:

http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_07/helpdata/en/f9/8ceb3db76a401bac4c456d718d0f46/frameset.htm

For additional governance, Engineering Change Management might be applied.

Regards, Ulf.