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Supply Chain Unit

Updated: Jun 16, 2023

What is Supply Chain Unit?

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 Extended Warehouse Management Master Data Maintain Supply Chain Unit Business Partner

Definition of Supply Chain Unit

Physical or organizational unit that is used with one or more business characters with in logistical process. An organizational unit may be a

Goods Receiving Office
Shipping Office

The business characters are preferred by SAP.

Use of Supply Chain Unit

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.

Create Supply Chain Unit

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.