Overview Flashcards
Concepts covered
- Organizational Units
- Sales order processing
- Sales doc type
- Item Category
- Schedule line category
- Data flow
- Special business transactions
- Incompleteness
- Partner Determination
- Outline agreements
- Material determination
- Free goods
Sales Documents
- Inquiry
- Quotation
- Free-of-charge delivery
- Free-of-charge subsequent delivery
- Order Returns
- Contract
- Scheduling Agreement
- etc
Shipping Documents
- Delivery
- Shipment
Billing
- Debit Memo
- Invoice
- Credit Memo
Overall status
- Reflects its processing status
- Depends on the different status values in the document
Document
Business process representation
Document Header
- Contains general data
- Default values valid for the whole document
Items
Contains data about the goods and services ordered by customer
Data in items
- Material number
- Description
- Prices
- Terms of Delivery and Payment
Schedule lines
- Contains data for shipping and procurement
- Required for any item with delivery
- Ex. Delivery dead line, Order quantity
Presales documents
- Inquiry
- Quotation
Objectives of organizational structures in the SAP system
- Achieve flexibility in representing complex corporate structures
- Adapt to changes in the corporate structure
- Distinguish between views in logistics (sales and distribution, purchasing, etc.), cost accounting, and financial accounting
- Process data across company codes
Client
- Self-contained technical unit
- All organizational units are subject to one
- General data and tables are stored at this level
Business area
- A separate business unit for which cross-company code internal reporting can be carried out
- Business areas are not limited by company codes
- You use business areas if you want to calculate profit and loss statements independently of the company code
Organizatinal Units
- Sales Organization
- Distribution Channel
- Divison
- Sales Office
- Sales Group
Sales Organization
- Represents the sales orgnational structures in SD
- Each Sales org, represents a selling unit as a legal entity
- Each business transaction is processed in a Sales Org
- Assinged to only one company code
- 1 <= plants
- Each Sales Org has it’s own master data and condition records
Distribution channel
- Provide structure for distributing goods
- Customers can be served through one or more distribution channels within a sales organization.
Division
- Product range
- Can carry out statistical analyses for a division
- Can make customer-specific agreements for each division
Sales Area
- A combination of sales organization, distribution channel, and division.
- Sales documents, delivery documents, and billing documents are always assigned to a sales area
- Every sales process always takes in a specific sales area
- Relevant master data can usually be maintained explicitly for each sales area
- Can carry out analyses within a sales area such as evaluation of sales volume, for example
Sales Offices
- Define geographical aspects of the organizational structure
- Can be an office or terriorty/region
- Can be assigned to multiple sales areas
Sales Group
- Can be assigned to a Sales Office
- Employees can be assigned to sales groups
- Consists of a certain number of sales persons
Sales Person
Assigned to a sales office and sales group in a sales employee master record
Information sources
- Master Data
- Existing Document Data
- Customizing
- Hard-coded controls
Business partner role
- Used to carry out a business classification of a business partner
- The attributes of the BP role depend on the particular transaction involved
BP roles
Used to determine screen sequence and field control of the Business Partner master data
- Contact person
- Employee
- Organizational unit
- Internet user
Functions to display and edit BP roles
- Overview of all roles assigned to a business partner
- Deletion of a role assignment
- Time-based validity of a role assignment
- Where-used list for a role (for example, in an application)
BP Category
A way to denote different types of Business Partners
Three types
- Natural person (private individual)
- Organization (for example: company, department in a company, club, association)
- Group (for example: married couple, shared living arrangement)
Business Partner Grouping
Determines whether and how the business partner number must be entered in the business partner field
Essential Partners for Sales Transaction
- Sold-to party
- Ship-to party
- Bill-to party
- Payer
BP is the single point of entry to create, edit, and display master data for business partners, customers, and vendors.
True
Business data
- Payment conditions, Incoterms, etc
- Defined at document header level or for each item
You can decide in Customizing for the item category whether business data at item level should be able to differ from business data at header level. You define this option separately for each item category.
True
System check of master records for plant options
- Customer-material info record
- Customer master record for the ship-to party.
- Material master record.
Sold-to party includes all four mandatory partner functions.
True
Account Group
Controls the number range, field modification, and the partner procedure with its partner functions
SAP Business partner is controlled by
Business Partner Category, Grouping and assignment of the Business Partner Role
How do you integrate the SAP Business partner in the role Customer to an SD account group?
An own grouping for the SAP Business partner.
- prerequisite is an own grouping for the Business Partner and an own account group
- integration is controlled in Customizing by Master Data Synchronization with the help of the Customer/Vendor Integration
Some basic functions needed to be configured for sales documents
- Partner determination
- Pricing
- Mesage determination
- Text determination
- Material determination
- Credit management
- Incompleteness
- Delivery scheduling
Pre-sales document types
IN = Inquiry
QT = Quotation
Outline Agreements types
CQ = Quantity Contract
LP = Scheduling Agreement
MV = Rental Contract
WK1 = General Value Contract
Sales document types
OR = Standard order
SO = Rush Order
BV = Cash Sales
KB = Consignment Fill-up
FD = Free-of-charge delivery
Complaint document types
RE = Returns
CR = Credit Memo Request
SDF = Free-of-charge subsequent delivery
DR = Debit Memo Request