​​​​​Join Felipe and his expert guest Marcus Zahn for the eight Part in this Transportation Management Black Belt Edition Podcast series about the Package Builder. This episode will explain the enhancement concept and go into details of the available enhancement methods.

The covered topics are:

• Intro
• Enhancement Concept for Package Building: Overview
• Enhancement Concept for Package Building: Regarding the recommendation to always use the enhancement spots rather than modifiyng the Package Building component
• Enhancement Concept for Package Building: Structure of the enhancement approach
• Enhancement spot /SCMB/ES_PACKAGE_BUILDER
• Enhancement spot /SCMB/ES_PACKAGE_BUILDER: Method ADJUST_ITEMS
• Enhancement spot /SCMB/ES_PACKAGE_BUILDER: Method ADJUST_ITEMS_INPUT (and regarding the decoupling of BAdI calls via the MO_PB_ENHANCE object)
• Enhancement spot /SCMB/ES_PACKAGE_BUILDER: Method ADJUST_ITEMS_OUTPUT
• Enhancement spot /SCMB/ES_PACKAGE_BUILDER: Method ADJUST_PACKAGE_MATERIALS (called in DETERMINE_CHANGED_ITEMS)
• Enhancement spot /SCMB/ES_PACKAGE_BUILDER – Method ADJUST_PACKAGE_MATERIALS (called in DETERMINE_CHANGED_ITEMS): Regarding the collection of customer specific enhancement data
• Enhancement spot /SCMB/ES_PACKAGE_BUILDER: Method ADJUST_SETTINGS (called in GET_PB_PROFILE)
• Enhancement spot /SCMB/ES_PACKAGE_BUILDER: Method CHECK_ITEM_CHANGED (called in DETERMINE_CHANGED_ITEMS)
• Enhancement spot /SCMB/ES_PACKAGE_BUILDER: Method CHECK_LAYER_COMPATIBLE (called in CHECK_LAYER_COMPATIBLE)
• Enhancement spot /SCMB/ES_PACKAGE_BUILDER: Method COMBINE_LAYERS_TO_PACKAGES (called in COMBINE_LAYERS_TO_PKG)
• Enhancement spot /SCMB/ES_PACKAGE_BUILDER: Method CONSOLIDATE_LAYERS (called in CONSOLIDATE_INTO_MIXED_LAYERS)
• Enhancement spot /SCMB/ES_PACKAGE_BUILDER: Method DETERMINE_ITEM_SEQUENCE (called in DETERMINE_ITEM_SEQUENCE)
• Enhancement spot /SCMB/ES_PACKAGE_BUILDER: Method DETERMINE_LAYER_SEQUENCE (called in  COMBINE_LAYERS_TO_PKG_BY_PICK)
• Enhancement spot /SCMB/ES_PACKAGE_BUILDER: Method DETERMINE_PACKAGE_TYPE (called in DETERMINE_ITEM_PACKAGE_TYPE)
• Enhancement spot /SCMB/ES_PACKAGE_BUILDER: Method DETERMINE_SPLIT_FACTOR (called in DETERMINE_ITEM_SPLIT_FACTOR)
• Enhancement spot /SCMB/ES_PACKAGE_BUILDER – Method DETERMINE_SPLIT_FACTOR (called in DETERMINE_ITEM_SPLIT_FACTOR): Possible use cases for this enhancement method
• Enhancement spot /SCMB/ES_PACKAGE_BUILDER: Method SET_PACKAGE_COMPLETE (called in HANDLE_PACKAGING_GROUP_RESULT)
• Enhancement spot /SCMB/PB_OPTIMIZER: General approach
• Enhancement spot /SCMB/PB_OPTIMIZER: Example use case
• Episode wrap-up and outlook to next episode

Additional info: Link to Monday Knowledge Snippet Blog by Marcus: https://blogs.sap.com/2013/05/21/monday-knowledge-snippet-series/

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