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Text Determination functionality

Ideally, whenever business requires communicating internally to other teams regarding special packaging for a customer, Shiping instructions, Delivery terms etc. in this situation text determination functionality is used.

For instance :

if the business user of sales team requires communicating to dispatch department then the text will be maintained at sales document level and this text determination assists in setting up on how texts are copied from one document to another.

Ideally, text can be maintained at customer master data ( General data, Company Code & Sales Area data), Material master data level ( Sales Text View), Customer Material Info record, Sales document, delivery, shipment, billing etc.

Text determination follows condition technique to fetch text maintained from the Master data or Preceding documents.

Text activation
  • In Master data text determination will be activated by assigning text procedure to Account group 
  • In Transaction data level, Text can be maintained at both header and Item

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