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Output condition records are crucial for business in the case of interfaces. Any changes to it will have an impact on the receiver system not receiving the data. Standard SAP hasn't given any feature to capture records directly but however, SAP has given a provision to do so. Below is the process to be recommended by SAP through SNOTE: 2967998 - No changelog available for OUTPUT condition records Check the indicator for "Log Data Changes" for table NACH in SE11. (-> click button for Technical settings) This can be set. You can develop your own query or Abap to read out the changes made in an output condition record. Use this information as a source: If you create/change an output condition in MN04/MN05, an entry is written into the table B02* (e.g. B026) and into table NACH. The two tables are linked with B026-KNUMH=NACH-KNUMH. Read table CDHDR where OBJECTCLAS = COND_OC and OBJECTID = NACH-KNUMH = B026-KNUMH OBJECTID is stored in this format: 0000000001BEF026NEU where...

Standard SAP provides routine to maintain at output procedure level to trigger output type when post goods issue is completed.  But however, SAP hasn't given any routine to trigger output when packing status is incomplete. To enable this functionality, we have to create a new custom routine in the 9* series with the below logic and assign it to the respective output type in the output determination procedure. IF  KOMKBV2-PKSTK = 'C' AND ( KOMKBV2-KOSTK EQ 'C' ).     SY-SUBRC = 0.   ELSE.     SY-SUBRC = 4.   ENDIF.

NAST table is used to store all output condition records whenever the output is triggered. At times, Business requires to delete the obsolete or Old NAST records which are no longer required.  Archiving of the output records will reduce the load and increase the performance of system during processing of output condition records. To archive obsolete condition records, SAP has provided standard program  RSCLNAST to perform this activity. Ideally, business can schedule a batch job once every month to delete the older records as per the data retention date range or this can be done manually as well.

BRF+ is the new output functionality provided in S/4 HANA. This new functionality, has it's own benefits where logo or addresses change doesn't require technical team but this has it's own limitations. BRF+ cannot be used if one of the following NAST transmission mediums is required: 8 Special function 9 Events (SAP Business Workflow) A Distribution (ALE) T Tasks (SAP Business Workflow) In this case, if business is inclined to use the above mentioned mediums then business has to be use NAST-based output management (NACE) along with BRF+ which SAP supports. In general, BRF+ can be widely used if business require to use print and email functionality.

Based on SAP Note -  2590037 - Output Management for Deliveries Output control for delivery documents is still based on the former SD output control framework (NACE) The new output management framework is not yet supported for delivery documents in SAP S/4HANA. Path to configure Output Control for Deliveries You configure output control in the Implementation Guide (IMG) under Logistics Execution →  Shipping → Basic Shipping Functions → Output Control.