What are the critical pieces of data in customer master ?
Master data in customer is very critical since that is one of the most important point of data origin for document flow further down the chain. Some of this data could be used for determinations -- shown in bold(transportation zone , shipping conditions , transport zone , calendar etc) while some of the data just flows across the document flow but can be used optionally if required for determinations(sales area , pricing group).

  1. General Data
    1. Address
    2. Transportation zone
    3. Juristriction zone
  2. Company Code Data
  3. Sales Area Data
    1. Sales
      1. Sales District (Optional in Pricing. Mostly used statistically)
      2. ABC Class (Optional)
      3. Product Attributes (1-10) (Optional in matching against prod. attr in Material Master)
      4. Price Group (Optional in Pricing)
      5. Customer Pricing Procedure (Mandatory in Pricing)
      6. Price List (Optional in Pricing)
      7. Customer Statistics Group (Optional in Pricing)
    2. Shipping
      1. Delivery Priority (Used mostly in collective delivery processing. Can be overridden at the customer-material info-record level)
      2. Shipping conditions (Shipping point and Route determination)
      3. Delivering Plant ()

    1. Billing
    2. Documents
    3. Partner Functions

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