In S/4 HANA, Sales And Distribution have been vastly simplified. It has been incorporated into S/4 HANA Line Of Business (LOB) which has a distinct perspective on the master and transactional data and how it is handled in SAP. The... Continue Reading →
From a business point of view, Sales and Distribution is a part of the Logistics in the SAP Enterprise Structure. The organization structure of SD involves five parts - Sales Organization, Distribution Channel, Division, Sales Office and Sales Group. The... Continue Reading →
Company Mentalist Inc. has to supply three thousand crystal balls to Roy. Staff at Mentalist Inc. bring the crystals to the staging where there are packed. The truck arrives to pick the package. It is loaded on the truck and... Continue Reading →
Both Credit Memo and Credit for Returns are technically same thing and the system doesn’t distinguish while processing these documents. It basically means that Customer has been charged over and these memos can be aligned with open invoices and cleared... Continue Reading →
Consider an assembled computer named Xanadu being sold by Charles Kane Ltd. Xanadu comprises of three parts – Alpha monitor, Beta CPU and Gamma keyboard. Xanadu is sold as one single unit however individually Alpha and Gamma are also sold.... Continue Reading →
Batch Management is an essential component of almost every industry from Retail to Aerospace and is incorporated in almost every phase of business from procurement to sales. What is a batch? A batch is set of products produced in a... Continue Reading →
Consignment is a widely used Order to Cash process which is conceptually different from generic sales process. Not only from sales, it is different even from logistics and finance perspective. Since it is widely used by businesses, it is a... Continue Reading →
Let’s think of a scenario where Hector Sales is a customer to Paris Inc. Paris sells five different scents named Helen 01-05 with material numbers 1001001-5. However, Hector Sales prefer PARIS_HELEN_01-05. When Hector Sales calls the sales officer at Paris... Continue Reading →
Sales flow in SAP captures processing from a request from a customer to the sending the invoice to the customer who pays for it. Depending on particular business process, SAP allows manipulation in the process but at a high level,... Continue Reading →
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