SAP Logistics

Revenue account determination is one critical integration point between Sales & Distribution and Financial Module. Here on posting a billing document to account, based on this revenue account determination, system determines relevant G/L accounts for revenue posting. As like any other basic function configuration like pricing, its configuration also based on condition technique. The condition technique is used in account determination in order to allocate the correct GL account and account key assigned in the pricing procedure against condition types carries the condition values from SD to FI. IMG -> SD -> Basic Function -> Account Assignment -> Revenue account determination -> Check master data relevant for account assignment. Through check master data relevant for account assignment, one has the opportunity to create account assignment grouping criteria. This grouping criteria provides the system with an extra variable in determ...

In many sectors of industry it is common to provide products free of charge, or not to charge the customer for some of the goods sold when a customer purchases certain goods. Two types of free goods exist in SAP. They are 1.      Inclusive free goods. 2.      Exclusive free goods. Inclusive free goods             The customer pays only for a part of the goods required. The rest of the goods are for free. This is called inclusive free goods which mean that part of the purchased quantity is designated as free and not billed. The unit of measure for the inclusive free goods is same as the purchased quantity. e.g.:- of the ten bottles of wine ordered two are designated as free goods. If we order ten bottles of wine then ten bottles of wines are delivered to us as ordered but we are billed only for the eight bottles and two bottles are given as free. We have rec...

At times, Business tries to control the materials to be sold to customers and this can be achieved to Material Listing and Exclusion Functionality. With material listing or exclusion, you can control which materials can be sold to each customer. Material listing lists which materials a customer can buy. Material exclusion lists which materials a customer cannot buy. During sales order processing system perform listing and exclusion as an initial check as soon as material is keyed in and if material listing/exclusion functionality is not active then system considers all the materials entered but however if listing/exclusion functionality is active, the system will allow creating orders for the materials that are listed. Listing/ Exclusion as well follows condition technique in order to filter materials list. Below are the process steps need to be followed. 1. Maintain condition tables for listing/exclusion 2. Maintain access sequences for ...

At times, We try to check the views maintained for a material then in case this can be identified through maintenance status. This is represented by the PSTAT field of Material Master data tables. Ideally, system updates different maintenance status when updating different user department. When a user department creates its data for a material, the material master record acquires a corresponding maintenance status. The maintenance status is important for finding out which data has already been maintained and which data still needs to be maintained. The table below shows the maintenance statuses that a material master record can have. User department                              Maintenance status  Accounting                                        B Basic data          ...

Stock transfer process Inter-Company process If the transaction between two different plants of different company codes then this is considered as an intercompany transaction in SAP.Hence settlement needs to be done for the supplying company code so commercial invoice will be raised for receiving company. Pre-requisites 1.        Supplying plant need to be created for supplying company code 2.        Receiving plant need to be created for receiving company code 3.        Receiving sales line should be extended to supplying and receiving plant 4.        Supplying plant need to be maintained in supplying sales line 5.        Create customer in supplying sales area 6.        Supplying plant need to be created as Vendor in receiving company code 7.       ...

Stock transfer process Stock transfer will be of two kinds: 1. Intra company 2. Inter company  Intra Company process If business requires transaction to be performed between two different plants of same company code. Then this considered as intra company transaction in SAP .Hence no billing document will be generated and if required proforma invoice will be raised. Pre-requisites 1.        Supplying plant and receiving plant need to be created for the same company code 2.        Receiving sales line should be extended to supplying and receiving plant 3.        Supplying plant need to be maintained in supplying sales line 4.        Create customer in supplying sales area 5.        Shipping data need to be maintained for both supplying and receiving plant 6.        Duri...