UTC Time Zone Impact to Sales & Distribution

[Former Member]

We've decided to set out time zone for UTC within the system, while the individual users will set their time zones accordingly. However, we feel this may lead to some issues with the 6-7 hr time zone difference as most of the users are in Eastern Time or Central Time. Orders which are created after 7pm Eastern time are recorded as created the following day.

I'm sure some of you SD gurus have came across and discussed this same problem during the course of a project.. just looking for some specifics to look for when it comes to time zone issues with SD processing. (example: batch jobs, variants, time stamps, inbound sales IDocs from different time zones, sales orders data conversion time stamps, date extracts to BI)

[Shiva_Ram · Accepted solution]

Keep the user time zones in the user profile (t.code SU01). By this way, user transactions will reflect the user time zone -time stamps. For example check this thread

Most of the time the basis team can help you to over come the issues. You can also do some testing related to background job running, IDOC receipt/send etc in the test system for clear understanding.

Related OSS Note 481835 - Analyzing the time zone settings for basis team can also be a reference.

Regards,