Diverse Sales and Distribution Functions Flashcards
Sales Incompletion Logs
Incompletion Structure that may be maintained for the delivery to highlight missing data in the sales as well as delivery documents, sales activities, and partner functions
Inspects the object, and inspects specific fields in order to see if data has been maintained
If Data is not maintained, system is told how to respond
Status Group
Group which determines to what extent a document is further processed based on the incompletion status
Statuses that may be incomplete
- General
- Delivery
- Billing Document
- Price
- Goods movement
- Picking
- Packing
Possible incompletion logs
- Sales document header data
- Sales document item data
- Sales document schedule line data
- Sales activity data
- Partner data in sales documents, deliveries, and sales activities
- Delivery header data
- Delivery item data
Statuses for a status group: General
Cause the sales document to be incomplete, but document can be further processed
Statuses for a status group: Delivery
Cause the sales document to be incomplete for further processing, that is, creation of a delivery (it will not hinder the creation of a billing document).
Statuses for a status group: Billing Document
Causes the sales document and delivery document to be incomplete for further processing, that is, the creation of a billing document
Statuses for a status group: Price
Causes the sales document to be incomplete for further processing if the pricing has not been carried
Statuses for a status group: Goods movement
Causes the delivery document to be incomplete for further processing, that is, goods movement, should a field not be picked (for example, quantity picked).
Statuses for a status group: Picking
Causes the delivery document to be incomplete for further processing, that is, picking, should a field not be field (for example, serial number).
Statuses for a status group: Packing
Causes the delivery document to be incomplete for further processing, that is, packing, if a field is not filled (for example, quantity picked)
Things you can assign incompletion procedures to
- sales document types
- stem categories
- schedule line categories
- partner functions
- sales activities
- delivery types
- delivery item types
Partner Determination
Must be defined in…
- Customer Master
- Sales Document Header
- Sales Document Item
- Delivery
- Shipment
- Billing Header
- Billing Item
- Sales Activities (CAS)
Partner Determiantion Procedure
Each Procedure contains a list of partner functions i.e. Procedure AG contains partner functions AA, SP, AP etc
Contains the two checkboxes “Not modifiable”, and “mandatory”
Each Procedure is assigned to an account group
Source and sequence field, Used when the system needs to obtain a partner record from any associated partner in the sales document other than the sold-to party
Source and sequence must be used together
Partner Type
Goups and controls each partner function to behave in a specific manner
Partner Function fields
- Partner function ID
- Partner function name
- Partner type,
- Customer Hierarchy
- Incompletion number,
- Superior Partner function, reporting structure
- Unique, unique master record
- CHT, customer hierarchy type
Text Determination
Determing what texts gets copied from one object to another
Different text objects
- KNVV Customer sales texts in the customer master from one of the sales screens
- KNA1 Customer master central texts in the customer master from one of the general screens
- KNB1 The accounting texts
- KNMT Texts defined for the customer material info record
- KNVK Texts from the contact person screen in the customer master
- MVKE Texts from the sales text screen on the customer master record
- VBBK Preceding sales document where the text is defined as Header text
- VBBP Preceding sales document ITEM, where the text is defined at item level
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Output Determination
Uses the condition technique to determine the condition record necessary for the application
Output type, a type of output and contains all the control features for the output i.e. defines the kind of output (order confirmation, invoice etc), which business transaction it applies to, which business partner receives the output, how the output is sent (the medium), the print program, and the form layout to use in formatting the output
Output type is the central component of the output determination
Main output determinaton activities which use condition technique
- Sales Activities
- Sales Documents
- Outbound Deliveries
- Inbound Deliveries
- Handling Units
- Groups
- Shipments
- Billing Documents
Each output type is linked to…
A processing program, i.e. RVADOR01
A form, RVORDER01
Form is divided into six elements
Header, General information about the layout set
Pages, defines the pages in your layout
Windows, separate sections on the page
Page Windows, arrange the windows you defined in the windows section
Paragraph Formats, Defines the paragraph styles used in the layout, and defines how the paragraph will print
Character Formats, Define the styles for a string of characters
Customer Hierarchies
Used when a customer has a complex chain or organizational structure in which all or some parts of the structure would benefit from an agreement made by the customer’s company as a whole
A node represents an account group
Integrates and relies on the partner determination in conjunction with the customer hierarchy settings
Customer Hierarchy Types
A customer hierarchy can only have 26 levels
Product Hierarchies
The domain of material management
A product hierarchy has an automatic family tree linking it back to a certain group of products
Assigned to the material master record
Recorded by the sequence of digits within a hierarchy number. Maximum of 18 digits, and maximum of 9 levels.
SAP Standard product hierarchy structure
Consists of 3 levels broken down into 2 levels of 5 digits each and one level of 8 digits
