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Throughout its existence, SAP has been known as an enterprise-class applications vendor – one that sells only to really big companies. At the same time, SAP has attempted – through marketing, channels and development – to move “down market” into the realm of small and mid-size enterprises (SMEs).
The tax in sales order is automatically posted into corresponding tax account when the billing document is released to FI. This post tries to explain how to make the settings for automatic posting of taxes.
1. Configure the calculation procedure
The tax calculation procedure is defined exclusively for each country. Each calculation procedure contains several tax types which is the same as the pricing condition type from technical point of view. The tax type determines which account key is used to post the tax.
The account key enables the system to post amounts to certain types of revenue account. For example, the system can post freight charges (generated by the freight pricing condition) to the relevant freight revenue account.
In sales order processing procedure, the output tax amount is calculated automatically according to the configuration. Below screenshot shows the tax rate is 4% and total tax amount is 28.00 USD based on sales price 700.00 USD.

This article tries to analyze how the tax is calculated from a step-by-step example.
The sales goods must be picked from a particular storage location when delivery note is created. The goods are also issued from the storage location that is speicified in the delivery. If picking activity is carried out using the warehouse management, the storage location in the delivery note determines which warehosue is responsible for picking.
Delivery item category determines whether the item is relevant to picking activity. For example, text items are not relevant for picking and you do not need to specify a storage location. Check box ‘Relevant for pick’ controls whether the item category is relevant for picking.
General Introduction
SAP Business All-in-One (BAiO) is a comprehensive and highly flexible business solution, available in more than 50 country-specific versions, for more than 20 different industries and additional cross-industry functionalities, with processes ranging from procurement, planning, production, financial management and reporting to marketing, sales and services. SAP deliveries BAiO for midsize companies with industry needs that want scalable and flexiable IT foundation utilizing SAP’s 35+ years of industry leadership in business applications.
In transaction MM03, we notice some fields like product hierarchy doesn’t appear in some material types and only be displayed in materials with type finished goods. This kind of behavior is archived by field selection.
In this section, you carry out the following activities:
- Define whether a field is hidden or displayed, or whether an entry is mandatory or optional in material master maintenance by assigning the field to a field selection group
- Create and maintain field references
- Define industry sectors and industry-sector-specific field selection
- Define plant-specific field selection and screen selection
Return process is a common process in SD. Customer may be not satified with the deliveried goods or the deliverable is not what customer exactly want. In these case, customer want to initiate the return process. SAP has provided standard steps for return process.
Create Return Order
Sales department creates return order using transaction VA01. Standard return [...]
The pricing elements that you may use in your day-to-day pricing procedures are divided into four categories:prices, surcharges and discounts, freight costs, sales taxes. Each kind of pricing elements are defined in SAP system as condition types. This post will give you an overview of pricing elements and the standard condition types in SD module.You can adapt the SAP standard pricing procedures, condition types as per your custom requirement.
Summary
Symptom
This note deals with the software architecture of SAP ERP Central Component 6.0 (SAP ECC 6.0) and its installation or upgrade.
Other terms
SAP ERP Central Component, SAP ECC
Customer
XD01 Create Customer (Centrally)
XD02 Change Customer (Centrally)
XD03 Display Customer (Centrally)
XD04 Customer Changes (Centrally)
XD05 Block customer (centrally)
XD06 Mark customer for deletion (centr.)
XD07 Change Customer Account Group
XD99 Customer master mass maintenance
XDN1 Maintain Number Ranges (Customer)
Vendor
XEIP Number range maintenance: EXPIMP
XK01 Create vendor (centrally)
XK02 Change vendor (centrally)
XK03 Display vendor (centrally)
XK04 Vendor Changes (Centrally)
XK05 Block Vendor (Centrally)
XK06 Mark vendor for deletion (centrally)
XK07 Change vendor account group

