1. Enterprise Structures In SD Flashcards
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- Module contents (3 items):
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- General SD structures
- SD structures in SAP
- SD structures of model company IDES Inc.
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- Module objectives (5 items):
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- Describe SD structures
- Identify SD org units
- Describe main characteristics of org units
- Explain most important relationships between org units
- Describe SD structures of model company IDES Inc.
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- Business example (6 items):
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- IDES Inc is part of IDES group
- IDES Inc produces and sells motorcycles
- Assemblies are delivered from plants in Europe and North America
- Additionally, it serves the market w/ assemblies and spare parts
- IDES Inc uses authorized dealers that only sell IDES Inc vehicles
- The IDES group, IDES Holding AG, is divided into operating companies: IDES AG in Frankfurt and IDES US Inc in New York
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- SD Structures of IDES AG (3 items):
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- Two branch offices (i.e. sales offices): Sales Frankfurt and Sales Berlin
- Different distribution channels from each office: retail, service, chain stores, industrial consumer
- Materials for different product lines such as: motorcycles, services, paints, food
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- Delivery structure of IDES AG (3 items):
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- Sales Frankfurt has two distribution centers, Warehouse Hamburg and Dresden, and Sales Berlin has Warehouse Berlin
- Before confirming customer order, IDES AG checks warehouse to ship from and stock availability
- Warehouse Hamburg can do both Express and Standard shipping processing, while other warehouses can only do Standard
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- SD org units in SAP (5 items):
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- Company code
- Sales Area: sales org, distrib channel, division
- Plant
- Storage location
- Shipping point
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- Company code org unit (2 items):
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- Legal entity and independent accounting unit, such as a subsidiary
- At this level you create legally required balance sheets and profit and loss statement
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- Sales organization (6 items):
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- Distribution of goods and services
- Negotiating sales cond
- Product liability and customer’s right of recourse
- Uniquely assigned to a company code
- Highest summation level in sales statistics
- All SD docs are assigned to a sales org
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- Distrib channel (4 items):
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- Means through which sales materials reach the customer
- Represents strategies to distribute goods/services such as: wholesale, retail, Internet
- Several distrib channels can be assigned to a sales org
- Used to define responsibilities, flexible price structuring and differentiate sales statistics
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- Division (3 items):
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- Represents a product line to group materials and services
- Several divisions can be assigned to a sales org
- Can be used to restrict price agreements with a customer to a division and differentiate sales statistics
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- Sales area (5 items):
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- Sales area is a combination of sales org, distrib channel and division
- Defines the distrib channel a sales org uses to sell from a certain division
- Each SD doc is uniquely assigned to a sales area
- Each sales area belongs to one company code and the relationship is created assigning the sales org
- When processing sales doc the system accesses various master data and performs system checks based on sales area
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- Plant and storage loc for shipping (6 items):
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- In MM a plant is where material stock is kept
- In production a plant can represent a manufacturing facility
- In SD a plant represents location from which materials are distributed
- Each plant is uniquely assigned to a company code
- Plants can be assigned to multiple combinations of sales org/distrib channels and vice-versa
- Plant is essential for determining shipping point
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- Shipping point (4 items):
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- Highest level org unit for shipping process
- Each outbound delivery is processed by exactly one shipping point
- Shipping point can be a loading ramp, a mail depot, a rail depot or a group of employees responsible for urgent deliveries
- Multiple combinations of plant/shipping point are possible
