SAP S/4HANA Administration · RFC, ALE & Data Distribution

A teammate proposes using LSMW (or the Data Transfer Workbench, SXDA) for a fresh S/4HANA business-data migration. Why is that the wrong default today, and what does LSMW actually do?

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