Author: Paul Gendreau

Best Practice for Site Numbers

Posted on January 25, 2020 by - SAP Retail, Site Master

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 a price 🙂

Site Master Distribution is Best Practice in S/4HANA

Posted on November 18, 2019 by - SAP Retail, Site Master, Site Master Distribution

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.