If you have SAP Sales and Distribution implemented, there are additional fields you can maintain. These fields contain information and control data that are necessary for processing the business activities in the Sales area.

We also call the data records that remain in the database for a long period of time are called master data. Master data includes customers, vendors, materials, accounts, and so on.

Master data is created centrally in SAP system and can be used in all applications.

A customer is master data that can be used in customer requests, deliveries, invoices, and payments.

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Master data also has an organizational aspect as it is assigned to organizational units. Master data can be used cross-component as customer master data uses the same data for financial accounting view (SAP FI)?and sales view (SAP SD).

Customer master records can be assigned to the following organizational units:

• company code
• sales organization
• distribution
• channel
• division

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When creating a customer master record in SAP system, you have to enter shared data on the client level
and company code-specific data for each company code

Data on the client level can be used by all company codes. The customer account number is assigned on this level. That means, the same customer has an explicit accounts receivable number in all company codes from a financial view.

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