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Introduction to Sales and Distribution Enterprise Structure

Organisation structure of a company is termed as Enterprise Structure in SAP. This represents the skeleton of an organisation. Each functional department  of a company is represented by an individual organisational element or Unit in SAP. Enterprise structure need to be designed from reporting perspective and this would be basis for the creation of the master data. SAP recommends to keep organisational structure as lean as possible and this will have an impact during master data maintenance. Enterprise structure is divided into two parts : 1. Definition 2. Assignment  Individual Org. elements will be created stand alone in the definition Relationship between independent Org. elements will be done in Assignment process. Below is the mapping of Organisational structure to that of SAP Functional Terminology                                    SAP Terminology Group of Companies  -------------------- ----------->  Company Each Industry Vert

Functionality of Report SDVBUK00

Consultants usually misunderstand that this program is used to perform mass changes for the document status but this is usually used only if the status of the document is inconsistent with the status of the document at database level Only those inconsistent documents will be corrected using this report. In case, if the status of the document and database is same this report will not correct the document As the status of the documents gets changed regularly at times there might be documents with this inconsistent behaviour only in this case you can use this report. This should not be scheduled daily and can be used to fixed individual sales documents

Identify customizing path through screen fields

At times, we are unsure of the path to find the required field for data maintenance . In this situation click on 'F1' button of your keyboard, this will give you a pop up. In the below example, I am trying to find the path for 'Nelson ID' and below is the process steps followed to identify the path. Select the 'Nelson ID' field and click on F1 button.

Customer Account Group Creation

Customer Account Group acts like a backbone for customer master data and is pre-requisite for creation of customer master data. Ideally Individual account groups will be created based on the below parameters. Field Status Number Ranges Partner Functions Type of Customer I.e., Regular or One Time Customer For domestic customer GSTIN number is mandatory whereas for export customers it is not. further, We can  create individual account groups for 'One time account', 'Ship to Party', 'Bill to Party' and 'Payer'. So due to that individual account groups need to be created in this case for both export and domestic customers,  'One time account', 'Ship to Party', 'Bill to Party' and 'Payer'. Field Status Control Path: Goto SPRO - Financial Accounting New - Accounts receivable and Accounts Payable - Master data - Define Account Group with Screen Layout ( Customers) ( T.Code - OBD2) Create new acco