Location Hierarchy

A location hierarchy is a grouping of locations based on a status or category within a structural level. The grouping can contain several levels with the possibility of zero locations or several locations at each level.

Note Note

You can maintain location hierarchies on your SAP Easy Access screen (transaction nwbc) under Start of the navigation path Services Next navigation step Location Services Location Hierarchy End of the navigation path . For more information, see Maintain Location Hierarchies.

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You use the location hierarchy master data to support planning, logistics, reporting, as well as demand modeling and forecasting scenarios. For example, you might want to plan a promotional event for a specific geographical location hierarchy.

Structure

The location hierarchy master data contains information required to represent location hierarchies (such as an identifier, description, type, type code, master data system, organizational data, and currency).

The following location hierarchy types are available:

Hierarchy Type	Type Code
Master Location Hierarchy	02
Promotion Location Hierarchy	05
Customer Specific	99
Location Group from Reference Locations	03
Distribution Chain	04
Master Location Group	07
Location Cluster Set	06
Geographical Location Hierarchy	08

Integration

The Demand Data Foundation (DDF) module in SAP Customer Activity Repository can receive the location hierarchy master data from an external SAP or non-SAP application. For more information, see Integration Information and Inbound Processing.