A Business configuration set is a set of customizing settings. The configuration settings in a BC set need to be grouped by logical business processes. The settings in the BC set are accessible across the system landscape and are independent of the original Customizing and table views. In simple sense, BC sets are snapshots of customizing settings. One important concept to keep in mind for BC sets is that of attributes. The customizing values in the BC sets can be given attributes. BC Set attributes can be of two types:

- Restrict Customizing (Fixed Attributes)
- Flexible Customizing (Variable Attributes)

Examples of restrict customizing include that subsidiary units cannot change certain settings. Repair to SAP system is possible, however, they cannot change the customizing settings. The fixed attribute is only valid in the system in which the business configuration BC set is activated. Flexible customizing on the other hand allows organizational units to customize the settings, i.e. settings may differ between local systems and global systems.

The variable attributes allows values at the activation to make the entire process of customizing flexible. Some of the key advantages of BC sets are given below:

- Consistency checks throughout with a cross system viewer
- Flexible adjustment of pre defined customising
- Bug fixes can be uploaded and downloaded as needed
- Independence from actual customizing
- Additional customizing information through the use of attributes.

One can organize BC business configuration sets in the following two ways in SAP ECC 6.0:

- One BC set per process - In this type of BC set, all the IMG activities which are required for a process are put in one BC set. This BC set can be used for that process only at any time. This type of BC set is recommended for a single special use or to have complete business coverage.

- One BC set per IMG activity - These type of BC sets are not tied to any processes so can be used without restrictions. SAP allows to construct a hierarchical BC set which models a business process. The advantage of doing this is that the hierarchical BC business configuration set can be used in the same way as one BC set per process.

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