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 Supply Chain Unit (SCU)

Definition

Physical or organizational unit that is used with one or more business characters within a logistical process. An organizational unit may be a goods receiving office or a shipping office, for example.

The business characters are predefined by SAP.

Use

With the SCU, you can replicate certain business characters of locations, such as door or warehouse, which you need in the processes of Extended Warehouse Management (EWM). You can use an SCU with different business characters. An SCU can simultaneously be used as a planning location and a shipping office, for example.

You can create hierarchies of SCUs to represent the organization of a supply chain.

You can create, change, and delete SCUs via the SAP menu, under Start of the navigation path Extended Warehouse Management Next navigation step Master Data Next navigation step Maintain Supply Chain Unit. End of the navigation path

Structure

The SCU contains general data and address data of the corresponding location. In contrast to the latter, however, it does not contain any further global or application-specific data. The SCU also has one or more business characters.

You will find this SCU data on the following tab pages:

  • General

    General header data of the SCU/location, such as the global location number (GLN) and geographical data.

    The technical name of an SCU must be unique in the system. That is to say, it must not conflict with the technical name of a location.

  • Address Data

    Address data of the location/SCU

  • Business Character

    One or more business characters of the SCU.

Integration

When a location is created in SAP SCM either manually or by transfer via the core interface (CIF), the system automatically creates an SCU with identical general and address data and the business character planning location .

Conversely, if you create an SCU with the business character planning location , the system automatically creates a location with identical general and address data.

Caution Caution

This relationship is of significance when a location is deleted. When you delete a location, the system only deletes the business character planning location of the corresponding SCU. If the SCU has further business characters, it remains in the system with the same name. To delete the SCU from the system, you must first delete all other existing business characters.

End of the caution.

If you create an SCU with the business character Warehouse , the system does not create a corresponding location.