Once a PCO effective date is established, the PCO can be incorporated into product definition tables. At this point, you can still change PCO effective dates or even remove PCOs from the production system. Any incorporated PCO not yet implemented can be unincorporated or reincorporated by changing the PCO effective date.

Incorporation (1.9.7.5) updates the database with changes from PCOs for which effective dates have been set. Incorporation makes change data available to MRP, DRP, and the other preproduction modules.

Incorporation generates an audit trail report of database updates and any errors encountered. For example, if two PCOs with the same effective date update the same records, only changes from the first PCO are incorporated. The second is highlighted as an error on the report.

Assuming that Incorporation Selection has been run, PCO Incorporation is essentially a batch update process requiring no input from the user. Typically it is set up and executed as a daily batch job.

After incorporation, MRP and DRP automatically use the new effective dates in all planning processes.