Editions and Releases
Public Edition versus Private Edition, how MDM detects your release and applies only what it knows for certain, and what differs for you.
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Contains: SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition vs Private Edition (on premise); MDM detects the release of your system from its interfaces and applies only what it identified exactly, never a guess; what "system not identified yet" means (the first minutes after a destination change, a release MDM has not recorded) and what is refused meanwhile; what differs for a user: record numbers with leading zeros, longer material numbers, columns and operations per release, columns that exist only on premise.
Related information: private-edition-runtime-differences, equipment-private-edition.
Source in the product repository: docs/sap-editions.md, .claude/rules/sap-editions.md (D81–D86).
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