Article Master Data Deviation

Site data – Logistics DC / Logistics Store

Where is the reference site decided when you maintain the article?

--> It’s decided from following place:

1. Overall setting for article master data (reference DC/Store)   (WSS1)  -- TWPA-VLGFI / TWPA-VLGVZ

the default reference site client wide. when you don’t specify anything and go to logistic view, this is under the default ref site.

2. Sales org and Distribution Chain specific settings  (Logistic General –> Basic Data Retail –> Distribuiton chain control)  -- V_TVKOV_W-VLGFI

Does REFSITE impacting this?

--> No. (for sure. tested)

The purchasing node in REFSITE only impact the MASS_MARC…  ???

In general you have two options to remove deviations:
1. If you usually use the same value in all dependent sites of a single
reference site (global reference DC, global reference store or
distribution chain specific reference store), then you should look
to maintain also this value in the reference site. By this change
all deviations are removed for dependent sites, where no other field
still requires the deviation entry. If there are only a few sites,
where you still require a different value, then a single deviation
for such sites is usually not critical. Especially it would be no
reason to fully exclude a field from the copy handling as described
in option 2.
2. If the value for a field is different for most of the sites, then
it makes sense to exclude the field from the copy handling by
deactivating the "copy field content" indicator as described by you
already above. Then no deviation entry is created for new sites, if
there is no other fields which requires this. But this has no direct
effect on existing data. For this you need to do any change for the
article again, so that the article master checks for the validity
of the existing deviations and remove them if possible. This step
can take a lot of time. If it makes sense, then I can provide you
also a special report, which can speed this up by analysing logistic
data specific deviations directly without to change the whole article.
But for this further analysis of the deviations in your system us
required before to see, that this can really help you. Especially
the result of the report ANALYSEMABW is helpful there for us.

--> Report: Z_MABW_CLEANUP