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The purpose of this document is to define the conversion approach to upload Materials - PO Text View into S/4 HANA as part of the Material Data Migration.

Link to MDS:

DD-FUN-050 Master Data Standard_2022-Material master-PO Text

Conversion Scope

The scope of this document covers the approach for converting active PO Text data on Materials and Services from Legacy Source Systems into S/4HANA following the Master Data Design Standard.

This object is migrated after Material Basic Data, therefore only materials in the Target MARA table can be included in the scope. For completeness, the scope for Material Basic Data is given below.

The data from legacy system includes:

All materials with activity for last 2 years (direct materials). 3 years for spares.
All materials with stock

The data from legacy system excludes:

All materials flagged for deletion
Any blocked or obsolete materials
Inactive materials

scope for object "2019 - Materials Basic Data View" are in scope for this object. Click here to go to the Conversion Spec for 2019 to see the full set of relevancy rules.

Exclusion DCT
We need an Exclusion DCT (it contains records that must excluded from the ECC extract because it is in the DCT) whose keys are: TDOBJECT ('MATERIAL' or 'ASMD'), TDNAME (MARA-MATRN or ASMD-ASNUM), TDID ('BEST' or 'LTXT'), TDSPRAS.

List of source systems and approximate number

of

of records

Source	Scope	Source Approx No. of Records	Target System	Target Approx No. of Records
PF2,WP2	Scope is Material and Service Master records that have been identified as part of Basic Data.	500332,000	S4H	500,000	332,000

Profiling

	WP2 - ALL Records	WP2 - Relevant Records	PF2 - ALL Records	PF2 - Relevant Records	Total Relevant Records
Material Master	771,298	116,055	880,498	210,486	326,541
Service Master	7,719	134	64,894	5,114	5,248
Total	779,017	116,189	945,392	215,600	331,789

Core, Additional or Supplier Language	Language	Count of Records where Material is Marked as Relevant
Y	EN - English	102,716
Y	FR - French	58,555
Y	IT - Italian	38,462
Y	ZH - Mandarin	21,994
Y	DE - German	21,061
Y	ES - Spanish	17,159
Y	PT - Portuguese	16,748
Y	NL - Dutch	13,528
Y	JA - Japanese	13,223
Y	KO - Korean	10,365
Y	PL - Polish	9,490
Y	BG - Bulgarian	3,441
Y	RU - Russian	2,748
Y	FI - Finnish	2,100
Y	ZF - Chinese traditional	146
Y	TH - Thai **Confirming TH is in scope. See Multi-language Requirement below.	53
Y	SK - Slovak	5,779
Y	Z9 - Brazil Portuguese	4,832
N	EL - Greek	222
N	CS - Czech	192
N	TR - Turkish	37
N	3F - French_CA	25
N	AF - Afrikaans	18
N	AR - Arabic	14
N	ID - Indonesian	9
N	MS - Malay	5
N	DA - Danish	4
N	ET - Estonian	3
N	HU - Hungarian	3
N	SL - Slovenian	3
N	KK - Kazakh	2
N	CA - Catalan	1
N	HE - Hebrew	1
N	RO - Romanian	1
N	SR - Serbian	1
N	SV - Swedish	1
N	VI - Vietnamese	1
N	Z8 - EN (US) EHS ONLY	1
N	HI - Hindi	0
N	HY - Armenian	0
N	IS - Icelandic	0
N	LV - Latvian	0
N	UK - Ukrainian	0
N	Z1 - Customer reserve	0

Predecessor Objects

Material Master - Basic View (2019) → Materials - Additional data (2021) → Materials → Materials Purchasing View (2020) → Materials – PO Text View.

Additional Information

Multi-language Requirement

Multi language is supported for Materials - PO Text. Login via a different language will show the description displayed in the logon language if the language key is maintained.

International Version

Description

C

Simplified Chinese

R

Cyrillic

K

Kanji (Japanese)

A

Arabic

3

Korean

T

Thai

The following languages are allowed:

Core languages: EN - English, FR - French, IT - Italian and ZH - Mandarin.
Additional languages: PT - Portuguese, DE - German, ES - Spanish, ~~TH - Thai~~ (descoped by CR0086, users can no use TH as their login language).
Supplier languages that are possible: FR - French, EN - English, ES - Spanish, DE - German, IT - Italian, NL - Dutch, PT - Portuguese, ZH - Mandarin, PL - Polish, JA - Japanese, KO - Korean, FI - Finnish, BG - Bulgarian, RU - Russian, TH- Thai, ZF - Chinese traditional, SK - Slovak, Z9 - Brazil Portuguese. (TH has not been descoped from such requirements where we need to send a document to a supplier in there own language, therefore it is still valid on the Materials PO Text View.)

Jira Task to check if TH records are still in scope:

Jira

server	Syensqo's Jira
serverId	d8efc1ef-48bd-3b4e-8714-ad827f4f059b
key	PDM-773

H

Hangul

Document Management

Not Applicable

Legal Requirement

Not Applicable

Special Requirements

Not Applicable

Target Design

The technical design of the target for this conversion approach.

Table	Field	Data Element	Field Description	Data Type	Length	Requirement
STXL	TDOBJECT		Texts: application object	CHAR	10	Required
STXL	TDNAME		Name	CHAR	70	Required
STXL	TDID		Text ID	CHAR	4	Required
STXL	TDSPRAS	SPRAS	Language Key	LANG	1	Required
STXL	CLUSTD		SAPscript: LONG RAW field for table STXL	LRAW	7902	Required

Data Cleansing

ID	Criticality	Error Message/Report Description	Rule	Output	Source System

2021-001

C1

PO Text

PO Text must adhere to S4 standardization

PF2/WP2

Syniti Report Required
1	High	TDSPARS Not In Allowed List	The following language are allowed as being either core, or additional or the language of the supplier: BG, DE, EN, ES, FI, FR, IT, JA, KO, NL, PL, PT, RU, TH, ZF, ZH, SK, Z9.	MATNR and Text messages that are not in the allowed list	PF2 & WP2	YES
2	Medium	Text Message Rules	No special characters.	MATNR and Text messages that don’t follow this	PF2 & WP2	YES
3	Medium	No Long Text for the Material	List of Materials that do not have Long Text	MATNR and MAKT-MAKTX (Material Short Description) for MAKT-SPRAS either EN, FR, IT or CH	PF2 & WP2	YES

Conversion Process

The high-level process for PO Text that will be migrated is represented by the diagram below:

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The high-level process for PO Text that will be captured in a DCT are represented by the diagram below:

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Data Privacy and Sensitivity

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Field Governance Rules
These governance rules apply to the individual fields within the data record.
Rule #	Field Label	Rule Description	Validation Method	Conditional Logic	Cleansing Rule (Also see Data Cleansing section above)
1	MARA-MATNR	Material number governance rules will be defined in Basic data as these are copied over from Basic data to PO text view automatically & are not specific to this view.	Upfront Automated
2	Language	The following language are acceptable as being either core, or additional or the language of the supplier: BG, DE, EN, ES, FI, FR, IT, JA, KO, NL, PL, PT, RU, TH, ZF, ZH, SK, Z9.	Upfront Automated		TDSPARS Not In Allowed List
3	Long Text	No special characters.			Text Message Rules No Long Text for the Material

Data Privacy and Sensitivity

Not Applicable

Extraction

Target Materials will come from both the Material Master and Service Master. In addition to the ECC data, PO Text data may also come from the DCT.

Text data in the table STXL is not readable and the Function Module “READ_TEXT” is used for this, using the following STXL fields: TDOBJECT, TDNAME, TDID and TDSPRAS.

TDOBJECT & TDID are used in the following combinations to get the data:

Material Master: 'MATERIAL' and 'BEST'
Service Master: 'ASMD' and 'LTXT'

TDNAME: this will contain MARA-MATNR or ASMD-ASNUM.

Updates to Extracted Data
The Business needs access to the data extracted from PF2 & WP2. They should be able to update TDSPARS and LongText.

Extraction

Extract data from a source into . There are 2 possibilities:

The data exists. connects to the source and loads the data into . There are 3 methods:
1. Perform full data extraction from relevant tables in the source system(s).
2. Perform extraction through the application layer.
3. Only if ; cannot connect to the source, data is loaded to the repository from the provided source system extract/report.
The data does not exist (or cannot be converted from its current state). The data is manually collected by the business directly in . This is to be conducted using DCT (Data Collection Template) in

The agreed Relevancy criteria is applied to the extracted records to identify the records that are applicable for the Target loads

Extraction Run Sheet

source system based on relevancy ruleSyWay Data

Req #	Requirement Description	Team Responsible
1	Extract data from	SyWay Data Team	2	Google Sheet report pre-populated with PF2 and WP2 information to be generated based on relevancy criteria.	PF2 and WP2 using Function Module “READ_TEXT”	Syniti	Team

Selection Screen

Selection Ref Screen	Parameter Name	Selection Type	Requirement	Value to be entered/set
Not Applicable

Data Collection Template (DCT)

Target Ready Data Collection Template will be created for data with exception of some fields which require transformation as mentioned in the transformation rule.

DCT Rules

Field Name	Field Description	Rule	Tool Tip
	Material or Service	Mandatory. A dropdown to indicate if the value in TDNAME is a Material Number or a Service Number. The default value for the dropdown is for a Material. Used in Transformation Rule 2 so the correct mapping (Old MARA-MATNR or Old ASMD-ASNUM to New MARA-MATRN) is applied.	Is this data for a Material Number or a Service Number?
TDNAME	Material Number	Mandatory	The Legacy Material/Service Number will be used to identify the corresponding Target Material Number.
TDSPRAS	Language	Mandatory. A dropdown with the following values: BG - Bulgarian, DE - German, EN - English, ES - Spanish, FI - Finnish, FR - French, IT - Italian, JA - Japanese, KO - Korean, NL - Dutch, PL - Polish, PT - Portuguese, RU - Russian, TH- Thai, ZF - Chinese traditional, ZH - Mandarin, SK - Slovak, Z9 - Brazil Portuguese.
Counter	Counter	Mandatory. User enters the value starting at 1 and incrementing by 1 for each line of text. This forms part of the key with TDNAME and TDSPRAS.	Start at 1 and increment by 1 for each line added, so that each line of the PO Text has a unique number, in the order the lines are to be displayed in.
Long Text	Long Text	Mandatory. No special characters: ; Semi-colon : Colon :: Double Colon ? Question Mark / Forward Slash @ At sign & Ampersand = Equal Sign + Plus Sign $ Dollar Sign % Percent \| Vertical Bar [] Left or Right Square Bracket " Double Quotes	This text should provide additional details of the material ordered with consistent descriptions, specifications & instructions to the supplier for packaging & labelling requirements, Shipping relevant instructions, delivery/handling notes, Special vendor instructions(if any) & any compliance or regulatory requirements with regards to purchase etc. 1. No special characters. 2. Use line breaks. 3. Capitalise first letter of sentence & major words capitalised.

Field NameField DescriptionRule

Extraction Dependencies

Item #	Step Description	Team Responsible
1	Materials and Services in scope to be loaded as Material Master Basic Data must be identified before the extraction of Text data, so that we can limit the extraction to this sub-set of data.	S2P Data Team & S2P Data Owners

Transformation

The Target fields are mapped to the applicable Legacy field that will be its source, this is a 3-way activity involving the Business, Functional team and Data team. This identifies the transformation activity required to allow to make the data Target ready:

Perform value mapping and data transformation rules.
1. Legacy values are mapped to the to-be values (this could include a default value)
2. Values are transformed according to the rules defined in
Prepare target-ready data in the structure and format that is required for loading via prescribed Load Tool. This step also produces the load data ready for business to perform Pre-load Data Validation

Transformation Run Sheet

SyWay S2P Data Team

Item #	Step Description	Team Responsible
1	Obtain DCT Sign-off from Business	SyWay S2P Data Team
2	<Add steps from Syniti Migrate here>	SyWay S2P Data Team
3	Review and Validate Error and Preload Reports	SyWay S2P Data Team
Verify that data is extracted from both source systems and includes both Materials and Services Long Text.	Syniti/Data Team(S2P)
2	Transformation jobs are ready for execution.	Syniti	4	Generate Load Files

Transformation Rules

Rule #	Source system	Source Table	Source Field	Target System	Target Table	Target Field	Transformation Logic
1	PF2, WP2 & DCT	STXL	TDOBJECT	S4H	STXL	TDOBJECT	Default to MATERIAL
2	PF2, WP2 & DCT	STXL	TDNAME	S4H	STXL	TDNAME	Map from Old MARA-MATNR or Old ASMD-ASNUM to New MARA-MATRN
3	PF2, WP2 & DCT	STXL	TDID	S4H	STXL	TDID	Default to BEST
4	PF2, WP2 & DCT	STXL	TDSPRAS	S4H	STXL	TDSPRAS	Copy As-Is
5	PF2, WP2 & DCT		Long Text	S4H		Long Text	Copy As-Is

Transformation Mapping

Mapping Table Name

Mapping Table Description

Link

Material

XREF

Google Drive Live Link

url	https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ycO3yrVqQufSK-M9IhUEGp9YQQ8wQP4A/edit?gid=87624989#gid=87624989

Transformation Dependencies

List the steps that need to occur before transformation can commence

SyWay S2P Data Team

Item #	Step Description	Team Responsible
1	Data has been extracted from sources systems	Syniti
2	Deduplication is completed	Syniti & Data Team (S2P)
3	Configuration should be completed - (Config documents should be complete)	Syniti & Data Team (S2P)
4	Value mapping and XREF tables are ready	Syniti & Data Team (S2P)
5	Language Translations are Completed	Integration Team & Data Team (S2P)	Ensure DCT tables completeness	SyWay S2P Data Team	2	Value Mappings are according to the latest design - <List of Value Mappings>

Pre-Load Validation

Project Team

Completeness

relevant records from the DCT is equal to the total number of records in the Preload and Load Sheets

Task	Action
Verify Record CountSyWay S2P Data Team to verify that the total	The number of	records presented after relevancy checks and validation needs to be correct compared to the staged data in Migrate.
Completeness check	All fields required as per mapping template rules must be completed. Validity reports checking each field in Syniti must be built.

Accuracy

Task

Action

Conversion Accuracy

SyWay S2P Data Team team to verify that all fields below meet pass the checks:

Mandatory Fields
Field and Value Mapping Correctness
Null Checks
Text Length Checks

Review Error Reports

Review and correct the errors. Achieve a zero-error record count as much as possible. Raise defects for data remediated and requiring a correction in the source data.the data staged in the preload tables are correct in terms of the mapping rules. This will be done via Syniti DSP reports.

Business

Completeness

Verify Record Business Data Owner/s to verify that the total number of relevant records from the the DCT is equal to the total number of records in the Preload and Load Sheets

Task	Action
Count	and Completeness check	All fields required as per mapping template rules must be completed. Validity reports checking each field in ADMM must be built to help check.

Accuracy

Data Owner/s all in the load table/file is accurate as per endorsed transformation/mapping rules (and signed-off DCT data).

Task	Action
Conversion Accuracy	Business	team to verify that	the data	staged in the preload tables are correct in terms of the mapping rules. This will be done via Syniti ADMM reports/SAP reports

Load

The load process includes:

Execute the automated data load into target system using load tool or product the load file if the load must be done manuallyThe Long Text data field in STXL is not a normal field, therefore Syniti needs to determine if Migration Cockpit is the best option, or if another standard load method is available, otherwise a custom method must be developed.
Once the data is loaded to the target system, it will be extracted and prepared for Post Load Data Validation.

Load Run Sheet

Item #	Step Description	Team Responsible
1

Go to <Load Tool>

SyWay S2P Data Team

2

Load 3 records for < > to validate if data is loaded successfully without errors

SyWay S2P Data Team

3

Load 3 records for < > to validate if data is loaded successfully without errors

SyWay S2P Data Team

4

Proceed with full load if steps 2 and 3 are validated

SyWay S2P Data Team

5

Validate few records loaded by accessing standard transactions from S/4HNA eg. MM03

SyWay S2P Data Team

Verify data extracted	Data Specialist/Functional - S2P
2	Verify data combined from both source systems and from Materials and Services	Data Specialist/Functional - S2P
3	Verify Material XREF is ready	Data Specialist/Functional - S2P
4	Stage data for transformations	Syniti
5	Run transforms	Syniti
8	Execute pre-load report	Syniti
9	Validate preload report - release	Data Specialist/Functional - S2P
10	Prepare and simulate	Syniti
11	Pre-load verification and approval to load	Functional/Data Owner - S2P
12	Load to S4	Syniti
13	Complete Jira steps, Volumes and Timings	All - where applicable
14	Execute post-load report	Syniti
15	Post-load report verification/validation	Data Specialist/Functional/Data Owner - S2P
16	Object load completion approval	Data Owner - S2P

6

Generate post load report if step 5 is validated

SyWay S2P Data Team

Load Phase and Dependencies

Configuration

Item #	Configuration Item
1	Not Applicable. This object is only dependent on Languages found in the table T002 and these are all SAP standard so nothing is required.

Conversion Objects

Object #

Preceding Object Conversion Approach

1

Material Master - Basic View (2019)

2

Materials Purchasing View (2020

list the exact title of the conversion object of only the immediate predecessor – this will then confirm the DDD (Data Dependency Diagram

)

Error Handling

Error Type	Error Description	Action Taken
Data	Incorrect Language	Fix incorrect data
Data	Duplicate	Fix incorrect data
Load	Authorization errors	Apply for the applicable authorization permission and retry
Load	Technical load failures - If using MC - Simulation errors, etc	Investigate error and rectify. Retry simulation and/or load

Post-Load Validation

Project Team

Post-Load Step

Step Description	Team Responsible
Execute post-load report	Syniti
Post-load report verification/validation	Data Specialist/Functional/Data Owner - S2P
Object load completion approval	Data Owner - S2P

Completeness

CountSyWay S2P Data Team to verify the record count created in target S/4 HANA by accessing post load reports in dspMigrate or standard reports from S/4 HANA

Task	Action
Verify	count	The number of records presented in the preload needs to be compared to the post-load. – Syniti report
Field by field check	Compare source data to target data	.

Accuracy

Task	Action
Verify Logs	Check if there is data that failed to load and perform the necessary actions (e.g. register as post load issue or attempt to load the record again, etc.).

Business

Completeness

Download Post Load Reports from dspMigrate and verify that the record count loaded in the target S/4 HANA is the same count as of the endorsed load file

Task	Action
Verify Count	The number of records presented in the preload needs to be compared to the post-load Syniti report.
Missing data	Check missing data which was supposed to be loaded.
Reconciliation	Participate in Post-load walkthroughs	.

Accuracy

Material in target S/4 HANA were loaded correctly via dspMigrate post load reports or standard reports from S/4 HANA

Task	Action
Conversion AccuracyVerify	Business team to verify that the	data	staged in the preload tables are correct in terms of the mapping rules. This will be done via Syniti/SAP reports.

Key Assumptions

Master Data Standard is up to date as on the date of documenting this conversion approach and data load.
Materials - PO Text is Text is in scope based on data design and any exception requested by business.

Change log

Change History

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Mar 02, 2026	Actor	Type	Activity	Version
Approved	MCARDLE-ext, Edward	State	changed state to Approved at 1:32 pm	v44
Edited following Approval	MCARDLE-ext, Edward	State	gave Minor change approval at 1:32 pm
Feb 24, 2026
	CLARKE-ext, Steve	Edit	updated the page at 2:28 pm Updated Data Cleansing to match reality
	CLARKE-ext, Steve	State	changed state to Edited following Approval at 1:28 pm	v44
Dec 17, 2025
Approved	WILLIAMS-ext, Julie	State	changed state to Approved at 6:36 pm	v43
Lead Approval	WILLIAMS-ext, Julie	State	gave POD Lead Review approval at 6:36 pm

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Key

Purpose

Conversion Scope

Profiling

Predecessor Objects

Additional Information

Multi-language Requirement

Document Management

Legal Requirement

Special Requirements

Target Design

Data Cleansing

Conversion Process

Data Privacy and Sensitivity

Data Privacy and Sensitivity

Extraction

Extraction

Extraction Run Sheet

Selection Screen

Data Collection Template (DCT)

Extraction Dependencies

Transformation

Transformation Run Sheet

Transformation Mapping

Transformation Dependencies

Pre-Load Validation

Project Team

Completeness

Accuracy

Business

Completeness

Accuracy

Load

Load Run Sheet

Conversion Objects

Error Handling

Post-Load Validation

Project Team

Post-Load Step

Completeness

Accuracy

Business

Completeness

Accuracy

Key Assumptions

See also

Change log

Workflow history