Data Owner/Provider 
Data Owner/Provider
The data owner is responsible for ensuring the data is correct and is assigned to a substance authorization group in Customizing for Product Safety in the IMG activity Specify substance authorization groups. The data provider is the organizational unit that supplies the data for an import into the R/3 System. If there is no data provider for a substance data record in an import file, the data owner that was specified for the corresponding substance authorization group in Customizing is used as a default value.
If a substance data record is changed, the R/3 System automatically assigns the data owner/provider, that corresponds with the substance authorization group of the changed substance, to the data record. If you want the original data owner, you must set the Retain data origin/provider indicator in the hit list under Utilities
® Retain data provider.You enter the data owner/provider in address management in R/3 Product Safety under Tools ® Edit addresses ® Data owner/provider.
See also:
Data Provider and Data Origin: An Example Phrase Management