Often you require maintaining certain transactions which calls customizing table in the live production system.

For example:

• Maintain exchange rates
• Opening and closing the period
• Maintain overhead rates
• Maintain assessment cycle in cost center accounting and profitability analysis.

These transactions actually require to be maintained every month or every year and as such are needless to be transported from the development system every time. But a live production system is a non modifiable client and is not open for customizing. Then how do you go about maintaining the aforesaid transactions which requires to be maintained directly in the production system?

This article on Customizing directly in production will provide you with all the steps required to maintain the customizing directly in Production. use this manual at your own risk.