Understanding Mass Updates for Grower Contracts

To streamline the maintenance of grower contracts, you can perform mass updates. Mass updates enable you to update several contracts at the same time. You can perform mass updates at these three levels:

• Contract header

• Contract block

• Contract harvest

To customize mass updates, you can set up different mass update profiles. In the mass update profile, you specify which fields should be updated and which replacement value you want the system to use. For example, you can set up a mass update profile for price information on the contract block. You can set up different mass update profiles at the contract header, block, and harvest level.

You can set up mass update profiles to push changes down to the lower levels. For example, you can specify that the system updates price type on the contract header field at the block and harvest level as well. By the same token, you can specify whether the system pushes updated values on the contract block down to the harvest level. The system stores the mass update profiles in these tables:

• Contract Header Profile table (F43C010)

• Contract Block Profile table (F43C100)

• Contract Harvest Profile table (F43C110)

After you have set up a mass update profile for contract headers, blocks, or harvest, you run the corresponding mass update batch program to update the contract header, block, or harvest tables with the updated values in the selected fields.