Why do we need a new client 045 for the QuantityWare installation?

With QuantityWare BCS, a complete quantity conversion configuration template is delivered. This template contains also more than 400 Unit of Measure (UoM) definitions. These UoM definitions are a set of SAP-defined UoM definitions – delivered also in SAP client 000 – and new QuantityWare-defined UoM definitions (e.g. gross volume, gross mass and gross weight UoM).

UoM definitions are not protected by a dedicated namespace within your SAP system. Thus, they may overwrite already existing UoM (with possibly different meaning) in other clients, with fatal consequences – typically requiring massive effort to resolve such a conflict. This has to be avoided by only activating the BCP or BCG BC set – that delivers the template – in exactly one dedicated client 045* in exactly one system in your landscape.
From there, certified BCS consultants will select all required UoM and all additional configuration data (e.g. conversion groups, reading groups, range groups …) following the PAIG methodology.

Important Note:

You should never activate a QuantityWare BC set in, or transport in its entirety to, any other client.

*client “045” is used by QuantityWare as a standard reference term to describe “the non- modified client, copied from client 000, in which you have activated the QuantityWare BC sets and performed the installation test successfully”. The majority of customers use “045”, but customers are free to choose any client number as there are no functional references to a client with the number “045” in our code. Just for the sake of clarity in communication, we would ask our customers to use “x45” (where “x” is between 0 and 9), but again, the client number can be freely chosen.

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