Site Master Data
A site is an organizational unit used to document goods stored in distribution centers and stores for the purposes of inventory management and to model the associated business processes, such as goods receipt, physical inventory, and goods issue.
The site master contains information about all sites in your company, that is, all distribution centers and stores. This information is stored in master records for each individual site. The system uses the data contained in a site’s master record to propose data values for a wide variety of business processes.
Implementation Considerations
These functions are part of the business function Retail Enhancements
(ISR_RETAILSYSTEM
) that you usually activate with the Retail business function set.
Storing the master records centrally and sharing them between applications means that you only have to enter data once. For example, if the address of a site changes, you only have to update the address in the master record.
Integration
A site is an independent unit that has its own inventory management and orders its own stock. However, a site can be considered as a customer because sales processes, such as delivering and billing, are carried out by the head office for the site. For this reason, a site is always maintained as a customer in SAP Retail.
A distribution center is also a vendor (creditor) because it supplies merchandise to other sites.