The structure indicator is a key in SAP Plant Maintenance that defines the edit mask for creating functional location labels. This edit mask serves two primary purposes. First, it determines the number of hierarchy levels and the length of the identifier for each level. Second, it specifies the types of characters allowed for each position within the label, such as alphabetic, numeric, or alphanumeric characters. This ensures a consistent and logical naming convention across the entire functional location hierarchy.

B. It can have a maximum length of 50 characters.

This is incorrect. The structure indicator ID itself is a short key (e.g., 4 characters). The functional location label it defines has a maximum length of 40 characters, not 50.

D. It defines which data is transferred to the lower levels of the hierarchy.

This is incorrect. The transfer of master data to lower-level functional locations is controlled by separate configuration settings for data transfer, not by the structure indicator.

1. SAP Help Portal

"Structure Indicator for Functional Locations": "The structure indicator is a key that you use to specify the edit mask for the functional location label... The edit mask determines: The characters that are allowed for the label (letters

numbers

or both)... The number of hierarchy levels." This source directly supports options A and C.

URL: https://help.sap.com/docs/SAPS4HANAON-PREMISE/3757ad8f954240489435564472261e46/1b39c353b677b44ce10000000a174cb4.html

2. SAP Help Portal

"Changing the Functional Location Structure": "The structure of the functional location label is controlled using a structure indicator... The structure indicator determines... how many hierarchy levels the functional location label can have... which character types are permitted for the individual blocks." This documentation reinforces that the structure indicator's role is to define hierarchy levels and allowed characters.

URL: https://help.sap.com/docs/SAPERP/69d34b76f5f14b21a21211112335e05a/1c39c353b677b44ce10000000a174cb4.html

3. SAP Help Portal

"Data Transfer": "You can specify for individual master data fields that the system should copy the entries from the higher-level functional location to the functional location you are creating." This describes a separate functionality

confirming that data transfer is not managed by the structure indicator.

URL: https://help.sap.com/docs/SAPS4HANAON-PREMISE/3757ad8f954240489435564472261e46/2039c353b677b44ce10000000a174cb4.html