​​​​​Join Felipe and his expert guest Marcus Zahn for the ninth Part in this Transportation Management Black Belt Edition Podcast series about the Package Builder. This episode will present the latest development in the area of Package Building: The Unified Package Building concept

The covered topics are:

• Episode Intro
• Unified Package Building: Background and Purpose of unification layer for different packing engines
• Unified Package Building: Availability
• Unified Package Building: Software Package perspective
• Unified Package Building: (U)PB Profile settings
• Unified Package Building: Additional features introduced for all engines in the PB Profile
• Unified Package Building: Upgrade considerations
• Unified Package Building: PB Test report now consumes the Unified Package Building
• Unified Package Building: Regarding the Software Packages for the PB Profile and the PB Test report
• Unified Package Building – Software Package /SCMB/PB_UNIFIED: Class /SCMB/CL_PB_UNIFIED and Interface /SCMB/IF_PB_UNIFIED
• Unified Package Building – Software Package /SCMB/PB_UNIFIED – Class /SCMB/CL_PB_UNIFIED and Interface /SCMB/IF_PB_UNIFIED: Method BUILD_PACKAGES
• Unified Package Building – Software Package /SCMB/PB_UNIFIED – Class /SCMB/CL_PB_UNIFIED and Interface /SCMB/IF_PB_UNIFIED – Method BUILD_PACKAGES: Overview of logic
• Unified Package Building – Software Package /SCMB/PB_UNIFIED – Class /SCMB/CL_PB_UNIFIED and Interface /SCMB/IF_PB_UNIFIED – Method BUILD_PACKAGES – Overview of logic: GET_PB_PROFILE
• Unified Package Building – Software Package /SCMB/PB_UNIFIED – Class /SCMB/CL_PB_UNIFIED and Interface /SCMB/IF_PB_UNIFIED – Method BUILD_PACKAGES – Overview of logic: VALIDATE_ITEM_TO_BE_PACKAGED
• Unified Package Building – Software Package /SCMB/PB_UNIFIED – Class /SCMB/CL_PB_UNIFIED and Interface /SCMB/IF_PB_UNIFIED – Method BUILD_PACKAGES – Overview of logic: Regarding the enhancement methods
• Unified Package Building – Software Package /SCMB/PB_UNIFIED – Class /SCMB/CL_PB_UNIFIED and Interface /SCMB/IF_PB_UNIFIED – Method BUILD_PACKAGES – Overview of logic: PARTITION_ITEMS_TO_BE_PACKAGED
• Unified Package Building – Software Package /SCMB/PB_UNIFIED – Class /SCMB/CL_PB_UNIFIED and Interface /SCMB/IF_PB_UNIFIED – Method BUILD_PACKAGES – Overview of logic: DETERMINE_PB_MODE and GET_PB_ENGINE
• Unified Package Building – Software Package /SCMB/PB_UNIFIED – Class /SCMB/CL_PB_UNIFIED and Interface /SCMB/IF_PB_UNIFIED – Method BUILD_PACKAGES – Overview of logic: Engine BUILD_PACKAGES
• Unified Package Building – Software Package /SCMB/PB_UNIFIED – Class /SCMB/CL_PB_UNIFIED and Interface /SCMB/IF_PB_UNIFIED – Method BUILD_PACKAGES – Overview of logic: UNDO_PARTITIONING_RESULT_ITEMS
• Unified Package Building – Software Package /SCMB/PB_UNIFIED – Class /SCMB/CL_PB_UNIFIED and Interface /SCMB/IF_PB_UNIFIED – Method BUILD_PACKAGES – Overview of logic: CHECK_RESULT_ITEMS
• Unified Package Building – Software Package /SCMB/PB_UNIFIED – Class /SCMB/CL_PB_UNIFIED and Interface /SCMB/IF_PB_UNIFIED – Method BUILD_PACKAGES – Overview of logic: VALIDATE_ITEM_RESULT
• Unified Package Building – Software Package /SCMB/PB_UNIFIED – Class /SCMB/CL_PB_UNIFIED and Interface /SCMB/IF_PB_UNIFIED – Method BUILD_PACKAGES – Overview of logic: Enhancement method ADJUST_ITEM_RESULT
• Unified Package Building – Software Package /SCMB/PB_UNIFIED – Class /SCMB/CL_PB_UNIFIED and Interface /SCMB/IF_PB_UNIFIED – Method BUILD_PACKAGES – Overview of logic: Difference between CHECK_RESULT_ITEMS and VALIDATE_ITEM_RESULT
• Unified Package Building – Software Package /SCMB/PB_UNIFIED – Class /SCMB/CL_PB_UNIFIED and Interface /SCMB/IF_PB_UNIFIED – Method BUILD_PACKAGES – Overview of logic: Regarding the applicability of the Unified Packaging Building concept for the different engines
• Unified Package Building – Software Package /SCMB/PB_UNIFIED – Class /SCMB/CL_PB_UNIFIED and Interface /SCMB/IF_PB_UNIFIED – Method BUILD_PACKAGES – Overview of logic – Engine example: Packaging Specification
• Unified Package Building – Software Package /SCMB/PB_UNIFIED – Class /SCMB/CL_PB_UNIFIED and Interface /SCMB/IF_PB_UNIFIED – Method BUILD_PACKAGES – Overview of logic – Engine example: SCE Package Building
• Unified Package Building – Software Package /SCMB/PB_UNIFIED – Class /SCMB/CL_PB_UNIFIED and Interface /SCMB/IF_PB_UNIFIED – Method BUILD_PACKAGES – Overview of logic – Engine example – SCE Package Building: MAP_INPUT_UNI_TO_PB
• Unified Package Building – Software Package /SCMB/PB_UNIFIED – Class /SCMB/CL_PB_UNIFIED and Interface /SCMB/IF_PB_UNIFIED – Method BUILD_PACKAGES – Overview of logic – Engine example – SCE Package Building: BUILD_PACKAGES
• Unified Package Building – Software Package /SCMB/PB_UNIFIED – Class /SCMB/CL_PB_UNIFIED and Interface /SCMB/IF_PB_UNIFIED – Method BUILD_PACKAGES – Overview of logic – Engine example – Packing Instructions: MAP_RESULT_PB_TO_UNI
• Unified Package Building – Software Package /SCMB/PB_UNIFIED – Class /SCMB/CL_PB_UNIFIED and Interface /SCMB/IF_PB_UNIFIED – Method BUILD_PACKAGES – Overview of logic – Engine example – Packing Instructions: BUILD_PACKAGES
• Unified Package Building – Software Package /SCMB/PB_UNIFIED – Class /SCMB/CL_PB_UNIFIED and Interface /SCMB/IF_PB_UNIFIED – Method BUILD_PACKAGES – Regarding the lean nature of the overall concept
• Unified Package Building – Software Package /SCMB/PB_UNIFIED – Class /SCMB/CL_PB_UNIFIED and Interface /SCMB/IF_PB_UNIFIED – Method BUILD_PACKAGES – Finishing the UPB call
• Unified Package Building: Regarding the use of the Unified Package Building from the consuming applications
• Episode wrap up and outlook to the final episode

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