Many months after SAP prematurely announced the death of Legacy System Migration Workbench, we know that our old and reliable friend remains relevant in S/4HANA!
It’s essential for SAP Retail. And it remains useful for functional SAP Master Data tasks in general. What’s more, you’re only three short videos away from becoming an LSMW expert!
Do you create SAP functional specification or mapping documents?
Forget standard T-Codes such as WE60. Watch this 5-minute demonstration of downloading the definition of an IDoc from an SAP system and saving it to Excel.
What’s more, the output contains help text of associated data elements and other details that you can’t easily display from one or many standard transaction codes.
MDA Workbench is free, simple, and a productivity booster for SAP practitioners!
A best practice in SAP Retail is that the following objects all have the same 4-character number:
This is true for all Sites: Stores, Distribution Centers, and Reference Sites of all flavors.
But this isn’t a system-constraint! Like many things that are described as a “Best Practice,” you can choose otherwise … and pay the price 🙂
A notable feature of S/4HANA is that, unlike ECC 6.0, a customizing request is not raised when creating or maintaining a Site Master in the Customizing Golden client. Given this, should a Site Master in S/4HANA be considered as master data or treated as customizing?
What’s more – perhaps, what’s worse – your Site Master process design critically depends on the answer to this “debatable” question. You better get this right.