Locations, such as regions, terminals, bulk plants, refineries and other such facilities where products are typically stored;
Transport systems, which may represent physical means of transportation such as pipelines or more logical ones such as marine routes; and
Partners, effectively a means of identifying the actual business partners who are active throughout the supply network, whatever their role may be in any given circumstance (roles include receiver, supplier, carrier, shipper, inspector etc).
All of the above are fully integrated with standard SAP R/3 objects such as customers, vendors and plants, and thus complete consistency is maintained throughout the whole process cycle from planning to settlement.
Recent additions to master data include mass maintenance transactions to enable fast modeling of complex supply chains, the ability to define and maintain location hierarchies of as many levels as desired and the flexible assignment of partners, for example where these are global or regional in nature.
