Manufacturing Cloud data must be migrated according to record dependencies. Parent and master-data records must exist before transactional records that reference them. Salesforce's current migration guidance specifically recommends loading Accounts before Contacts because Contacts contain an Account relationship, and the same parent-before-child principle applies throughout the data model.

Accounts, Contacts, and Products therefore belong at the foundational stage. Sales Agreements can then be loaded because they represent long-term agreements between customers and manufacturers and depend on established customer and product information. Orders should follow because customer Orders can be placed against Sales Agreements and can subsequently contribute to Sales Agreement actuals. Salesforce's Manufacturing data model explicitly positions Sales Agreements, Sales Agreement Products, Orders, and Order Products within this dependent commercial structure.

Loading Orders before the related master data or Sales Agreement framework would increase the risk of unresolved lookups, incorrect relationships, and failures when deriving actual quantities and revenues.

Following this dependency sequence also simplifies validation because each downstream record can be checked against an already established parent or master record.

Study Guide references/topics: Validate and Deploy — Data Loading; Data Validation; Record Dependencies; Sales Agreements; Orders; Data Migration Sequence.