Product Labeling Process

You use this process to create label sets based on specifications in the PLM Web User Interface (Web UI). You can preview the package label as a PDF-based print form, and export the print form or the label set as an XML file to an external system, where you can, for example, create a print layout.

Prerequisites

You have made the necessary entries in the Customizing activities under Logistics - General Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) PLM Web User Interface Recipe Development Labeling .
You have created the primary output specification in Specification Management (either in Environment, Health and Safety, or in the PLM Web UI).
For more information, see Specification Management in EH&S, or Specification Management in the PLM Web UI.
You have created a recipe for this specification as primary output in Recipe Development (PLM-WUI-RCP). You cannot create label sets for recipes created in Recipe Management (PLM-RM).
If you use nutrients as components and you want to calculate proportions of their recommended daily allowances (RDA), you have to use an RDA profile — containing data for nutrients only. You create this as a specification with specification category substance and specification type RMSL_RDA.

You can make the following additional settings:

If you want to use a specification as the data origin for the ingredient label, you must have specified a value assignment type for ingredient composition in Customizing activity Set Up Connection to Recipe Management in PLM-RM under Logistics - General Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) PLM Web User Interface Recipe Development Labeling .
If you are using nutrients and you want their quantities and recommended daily allowances to be rounded automatically by the system, you can define rounding rules. The system calculates declared values according to these rules. For more information, see Rounding Rules for Nutrients.
If you want to transfer calculated values as default values for values that are declared on the label, you can integrate the Business Add-Ins (BAdIs) for rules accordingly. You can choose whether the system transfers the calculated values automatically or use the pushbutton to transfer the values manually.
For more information, see Customizing for Labeling under Include BAdI Implementation for Rules.

Process

Create or open a label set.
- You can edit the general data as follows:
  - Enter default values for the rating, validity, and data origin. The system offers these values as default when it creates the label lists.
  - Create language-dependent label set descriptions.
  - Specify the usage (the rating with which the label set is valid and the area to which this rating applies).
  - Specify the classes and the characteristic values.
  - Assign footnotes and marketing statements to the label set that apply to the product as a whole on the Global Definition subview. You can define these statements in Phrase Management.
- You define the label content:
  - Define the target locations on the Global Definition subview (see Customizing activity Define Target Location Profiles, under Logistics - General Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) PLM Web User Interface Recipe Development Labeling ).
  - Create the different labels of the label set.
    
    For more information, see:
    Creating an Ingredient Label
    Creating a Qualitative Label
    Creating a Component Label
  - Assemble the final label content on the package label.
    For more information, see Creating a Package Label
You can preview the data in a PDF print layout on the package label (for settings, see Customizing activity Define PDF Forms, under Logistics - General Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) PLM Web User Interface Recipe Development Labeling ).

Note
SAP delivers the PDF print form PLMU/UI_LBL_ADOBE_WUI. You can specify pre-defined text modules to be displayed on the print form by using phrases. You can do this in Customizing activity Define PDF Forms, under Logistics - General Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) PLM Web User Interface Recipe Development Labeling .

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Once you have completed processing, set the status For Release. (See Status Management.)

Note
You can also set your own status scheme in the Customizing activity Define Status Scheme, under Logistics - General Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) PLM Web User Interface Recipe Development Status Management .

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Release the label set.

Caution
You cannot change the data of a label set that has the status Released.

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Export the data of the label set as an XML file.
You can export the complete label set or the content of a package size that you have specified. To do this, choose the Export to XML link on either the Basic Data subview, or on the package label for a selected package size.

The structure of the XML file is defined by the structure RMSLS_XML_LABEL.

Note
You can display or export the data at any time during processing.

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If you do not want to use the label set any longer, set the status Obsolete.

Note
You cannot undo this status, and you can no longer edit the label set.

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