The SAP System provides several workbenches to transfer data from legacy systems. Depending on the object type you want to transfer you use one of the following workbenches:

The Data Transfer Workbench (SXDA) provides access to most of the SAP standard transfer programs and techniques. You can use the workbench in the following areas:

• Cross-application functions (CA)
• Financial Accounting and Asset Accounting (FI, FI-AA)
• Real Estate Management (RE)
• Logistics (LO)
• Sales and Distribution (SD)
• Material Management (MM)
• Logistics Execution (LE)
• Quality Management (QM)
• Plant Maintenance (PM)
• Production Planning and Control (PP)
• Human Resources (HR)

You can use the External Data Transfer Tool in the following areas:

• Treasury (TR)
• Central Business Partner
• Executive Information System (EIS)
• Profitability Analysis (CO-PA)
• Bank Customer Accounts (BCA), Results and Risk Analysis in SAP Banking

In the Environment, Health & Safety (EHS) and Enterprise Controlling (EC) areas you use other data transfer tools and techniques.