Test Run

Now we are ready to run mass update to material master weights. We are going to use MM02 transaction, take material number from column A and weights from column B and C.

However, we have not yet told Process Runner which Excel file to use. We will do that now as you see in screen shot below in step 1, 2 and 3.

We are now ready to do a small test run. We will start from Excel row 2 and stop at row 3. Finally we will click on Run button.

When you click Run – Process Runner will perform following actions:

1.         SAP Logon. Select correct system; provide client, user name, password and language to logon.

2.       Once logon is successfully, Process Runner will read recorded transaction and mapping instructions we carried out in earlier steps.

3.         Process Runner will build data package by merging recorded transaction with mapped Excel and other values and send this package to SAP transaction for processing.

4.         Once SAP is finishing executing the transaction, Process Runner will retrieve transaction status and message from SAP and place that next available empty columns in the spreadsheet

5.          Repeats this process for all the Excel rows we selected to run.

6.          Finally, log itself off from the SAP system.

This sounds a lot but it is done in amazingly fast speed. Process Runner will report and log exactly how long it took to run given set of transactions.

At the end of the test run, our example Excel spreadsheet should look like this:

Notice that it did not report a change in 2nd row as we had already changed these values during recording.

Now, we should check weight data in SAP to verify that change actually occurred

…only those fields got changed which you intended and no other.

Upon this verification in SAP, we successfully completed our Test Run! We are ready for our next and final step.

See Also

Production Run