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Function documentationInbound Master Data

 

The master data interface is needed to import master data from connected systems. Which systems this data comes from depends on your business processes and your system landscape and is a factor in the implementation.

Integration

  • SAP F&R assigns the appropriate default profiles from Customizing to the created master data. You can use the provided standard profiles as default profiles or create copies of them and then adapt the copies to meet your specific needs. You can flag your copies as the default profiles for future master data imports.

  • For more information on the existing interfaces, see the overview of the interfaces in SAP F&R. Between the master data objects that can be transferred, there exist dependencies that you must take into account.

  • Restrictions

    • SAP F&R does not export new or changed master data. Therefore master data that was changed in SAP F&R is not synchronized with a follow-up system.

    • SAP F&R excludes products that are flagged for cross-docking from automatic replenishment in a distribution center.

    • You must create the calendar and the restriction profile in SAP F&R.

Prerequisites

  • The sending system must control the F&R inbound interface. This requires scheduling in the sending system.

  • You have defined in SAP F&R Customizing which master data you wish to import and process. You must make the following minimum settings:

    • For each message type, you set the mode for processing the import data (for example, processing via interfaces). For more information, see Interface Processing.

    • You define for which fields it is to be possible to import the content using an interface. For more information, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) of Forecasting and Replenishment under Start of the navigation path Interfaces Next navigation step Define Maintainable Attributes End of the navigation path.

  • Master data can only be imported correctly if the corresponding location and product master data exists in SAP F&R. If this is not the case, SAP F&R stores this data flagged as incorrect in the appropriate interface table. You can repost this data using the Interface Workbench.

Features

You can import complete master data records or only changes to master data.

When you import master data, SAP F&R checks whether incorrect or unprocessed records already exist for an object in the buffer tables. If so, the new record overwrites existing records. This procedure reduces the volume of data within the interfaces and helps to consolidate data in the run-up to posting.

This means that if you transfer master data changes to SAP F&R several times a day, but the posting job only runs once a day, data can be consolidated in advance.