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SAP SNC Master Data

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SNC Master Data primarily consists of the following:

  1. Product
  2. Location
  3. Business Partner
  4. Transportation Lane

Master Data can be created in SNC or transferred over from the back-end system (SAP ECC). Master data is transferred over from SNC using the Core Integration Framework (CIF).

Product:

  • Material Data from ECC is CIF’ed to SNC.
  • You can set material master changes to be transferred to SNC immediately by the following setting:
  • CFC9 –> Material Master Change Transfer –> 2 (BTE Transfer, Immediate)
  • You can Activate change pointers for Products (BD52) to allow transfer of changes to Material Master

Location:

  • A Location needs to be created for every vendor and customer plant in scope.
  • When you CIF over the customer’s plants, it creates a location of type 1001 – Production Plant
  • Every vendor will be created as a location of type 1011 – Vendor in SNC by default

Business Partner:

  • A business partner needs to be created for the following:
  • Every organizational entity in scope
    • The BP of type Organization is then assigned to the corresponding locations.
    • A single business partner can be created for various locations. For e.g. when one business partner representing one vendor needs to be assigned to various vendor ship points created as separate locations.
    • When a vendor is Cif’ed across from ECC you can set the Create Loc./BP to 2 – Create both. This will create the vendor both as a location and a business partner in SNC and will also assign the business partner to the vendor location.
  • Every person/user who will access the SNC WebUI needs to be created as a separate BP.
    • The “Person” type BP needs to be created as an Internet User
    • The views in the SNC WebUI that can be accessed by the person are assigned to the “Internet User”
    • A relationship also needs to be defined for the business partner. The relationship “Is SNC user of” is defined in order to specify the vendor/ customer business partner for which the person is a SNC user.

Transportation Lane:

  • A transportation lane is used to define a means of transport between a source location and a customer location
  • The Purchase Inforecord or Scheduling Agreement (+Source List) is CIF’ed over from ECC to create a transportation lane
  • The Means of transport need to be created manually
  • The means of transport define whether it is a Truck, train, Ship etc and the HRS and KMS between the source and destination location