3. SD Master Data

Question 0

2. Module contents (5 items):

Answer 0

1. Customer md
2. Mat md
3. Cust-mat info rec
4. Pricing cond
5. Addtl md

Question 1

1. Module objectives (6 items):

Answer 1

1. Customer
2. Material
3. Customer-material info record
4. Pricing cond
5. Issue output for sales docs
6. Incompletion log

Question 2

3. Origin of data in sales docs (6 items):

Answer 2

1. Customer md
2. Material md
3. Cond md
4. Output is info sent to customer via diff medias like mail, EDI, fax
5. Control tables
6. A prev sales doc

Question 3

4. Customer master (3 items):

Answer 3

1. General data: relevant for sales and acct and valid for all org units
2. Sales area data: relevant for sales and valid for sales org, distrib channel, division
3. Company code data: relevant for accounting and valid for company code

Question 4

5. Customer master gen data (7 items):

Answer 4

1. Address
2. Control data (tax info)
3. Payment transacts (bank details)
4. Marketing (industry, customer classification)
5. Unloading points (goods receiving hrs)
6. Export data (data for export control)
7. Contact persons (address of buss partners)

Question 5

6. Customer master sales area data (4 items):

Answer 5

1. Sales (sales office, currency, sales district, price grp…)
2. Shipping (shipping cond, deliv plant, transp zone)
3. Billing docs (output tax class., payment cond…)
4. Partner functions (ship-to pty, bill-to pty, payer…)

Question 6

7. Partner functions in sales area data (5 items):

Answer 6

1. Sold to: places the order
2. Ship to: receives the goods or services
3. Bill to: receives the invoice
4. Payer: pays invoice
5. Other partner functions such as contact person and fwd agent are optional for sales order processing

Question 7

8. Customer master company code tab (4 items):

Answer 7

1. Acct mgmt (reconc acct)
2. Payment transacts (pay methods, pay block)
3. Correspondence (dunning proc, acct clerk)
4. Insurance (amt insured)

Question 8

9. Effects of changes in customer md (2 items):

Answer 8

1. Changes do not affect sales docs already created with exception of customer address
2. If changes need to be done in sales docs prev created these have to be done manually

Question 9

10. Material md relevant for sales (6 items):

Answer 9

1. Basic data1: valid for all org units (mat number, mat short txt, base uom, division…)
2. Sales (sales org 1): valid for sales org and distrib channel (deliv plant, mg, tax classif…)
3. Sales (sales org 2): same (mg, bonus grp, ph…)
4. Sales (gen plant): valid for deliv plant (avail check, transp grp, loading grp…)
5. Foreign trade: valid for deliv plant (exp/imp grp, region of origin…)
6. Sales txt: valid for sales org and distrib channel (item txt for sales)

Question 10

11. Service materials (2 items):

Answer 10

1. Std mat type DIEN - no inv mgmt

2. Item cat grp LEIS - serv w/o deliv; order-rel billing

Question 11

12. Cross-div sales (3 items):

Answer 11

Control in customizing:

1. Allow multiple mat w/ various div in order
2. System issues or not a warning
3. Item level div copied from mat md or doc header

Question 12

13. Customer-material info rec (3 items):

Answer 12

1. Takes priority over customer and material master
2. Maintain data for cross-reference between customer mat number and your mat number
3. Maintain data for specific shipping info for this customer and material such as deliv tolerances

Question 13

14. Order entry using customer-mat info (2 items):

Answer 13

1. Sales orders can be placed w/ customers mat number by using the ordering pty tab
2. System finds associated mat master via the cust-mat info

Question 14

15. Cond md for pricing (4 items):

Answer 14

1. Prices, surcharges/discounts, freights and taxes
2. Cond types define multiple uses of a cond such as percentage, qty-dependent, amount-dependent
3. Specifying a validity period you can restrict a price agreement
4. You can maintain values within a cond record according to a scale

Question 15

16. Addtl md - output (7 items):

Answer 15

1. Info sent to customer from various sales docs and takes place using cond technique
2. In the output md you define transmission media, time and partner function for the output type
3. Output types include quotation, order conf, invoice
4. Partner func include sold to, ship to, bill to
5. Trans media include printer, telex, fax, mail, EDI
6. Times at which input is sent include when saving or by using a scheduled program
7. Output layout is defined by a form in SAPScript

Question 16

17. Addtl md - incompletion log (2 items):

Answer 16

1. In customizing you can decide which fields are part of incompletion log regarding sales order and deliv
2. You receive incompletion log either automatically when data is saved or by choosing Edit > Incompletion log

Question 17

18. Common md - distrib channel (2 items):

Answer 17

1. If you do not need the md (customer, mat, cond) to be diff by DC you can setup a representative DC
2. Setup reference between DCs and rep DC in customizing

Question 18

19. Common md - divisions (2 items):

Answer 18

1. If you do not need the md (customer or cond) to be diff by division you can setup a representative division
2. Setup reference between division and rep division in customizing