Area: Customer Master
Description
Customer hierarchies represent complex customer structures in the system and are used for the organizational structures of buying groups or chains of retail outlets, for example.
A customer hierarchy consists of individual hierarchy nodes which are allocated hierarchically to each other on different levels to produce lower-level and higher-level nodes. The structure of the customer hierarchy can be kept flexible and adapt to change at any time by means of the option to move hierarchy nodes dynamically.
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Area: Customer Master/Sales and Distribution
Description
Partner function describes the rights and responsibilities of each partner in a business transaction.
You summarize all partner functions that are allowed for a partner object in a partner determination procedure. You then assign a partner determination procedure to a key, for example a sales document type. The partner functions contained in the determination procedure are then relevant in a sales document of this type. In additional to this assignment. a partner determination procedure is valid, for example, for a certain account group customer. Below screenshot shows the partner function list in the customer master.
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Area: Sales
Description
The schedule line is the division of an item in a sales document according to date and quantity. For example, if the total quantity of an item can only be delivered in four partial deliveries, the system creates four schedule lines and determines the appropriate quantities and delivery dates for each schedule line. The SAP systems can only copy those items of a sales document to a delivery for which schedule lines exists.
The behavior of schedule line is controlled by the schedule line category. The schedule line category is used to controller below business settings:
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Area: Customer Master/Sales and Distribution
Description
Block reason is a factor that blocks document processing of documents. You can define suitable blocking reasons to satisfy your business needs. Then these blocking reasons can be assigned to corresponding document types and used in the SD document processing.
You can also block a customer directly in the customer master. The specification in the customer master record and therefore also the the sales document block is valid either for all or only for individual sales areas.
For the blocked customers in the relevant sales area you cannot create sales document with the sales document type for which this blocking reason is valid. For example, you can block the creation of sales order for a customer but allow inquiry creation.
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Area: Customer Master
Description
The account group is a classifying feature within customer master records. The account group determines:
- in which number range the customer account number should be
- whether the number is assigned by the user or by the system
- which specifications are necessary or possible in the master record
For example, group of one-time customers, groups of ship-to-parties. You can find the account group of a specified customer record by choose menu Extras –> Administrative Data
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Area: Logistics Execution – Shipping
Description
Shipping conditions are the general shipping strategy for the delivery of goods from the vendor to the customer. You can define shipping conditions in your system which correspond to the requirements of your company. You can specify a shipping condition in the customer master and in the vendor master. You can also determine a shipping condition for each sales document type.
Example, a particular customer always requires immediate delivery. You enter the appropriate shipping condition into the customer master record. This means that when you process orders for this customer, the system automatically proposes the express mail room as a shipping point and the quickest way to the airport as a route.
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Area: Material Master
Description
In this IMG activity, you define the storage conditions for your materials. In the Storage conditions field in the material master, you can then specify one of the storage conditions you have defined here.
In the standard system, this field appears on the General Plant Data / Storage screen in the material master for industry, and on the Basic Data screen in the material master for retail. In both instances, the storage conditions apply to all the storage locations in which the material is stored.
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Application Area – MM
Overview
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
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Application Area – FI
Overview
Process Outgoing Payment is one scenario building block in SAP Best Practices Baseline Package (U.S.). Technical name is V1C (Financial Accounting – AP – Outgoing Payment).
After receiving vendor’s invoice, the outgoing payment should be run periodically using checks or other payment methods. This activity is achieved by using the SAP payment program. The program selects open invoices and down payment requests to be for vendors based on following criterias: payment method, payment terms, selection parameters entered in the payment program.
The open items selected are presented in the form of a proposal. The proposal can be edited further to block certain open items, if required. Once the proposal is acceptable, the payment run is executed resulting in clearing the open items on the vendors account and crediting the outgoing checks bank clearing account. Checks are then printed using the print function of the payment program.
Company roles involved in process flows: Accounts Payable Supervisor.
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Application Area – MM, PP, LE, FI, CO
Overview
Process Create Raw (ROH) Material is one scenario building block in SAP Best Practices Baseline Package (U.S.). Technical name is V7A (Create Raw (ROH) Material).
You need this process when a new raw material is needed during engineering/production.
Company roles involved in process flows: Engineering.
Business Process Procedure
1. Create raw material
Go to transaction MM01. On the initial screen, enter material number, Industry sector and material type. Material number can be assigned internally or externally. Please visit my another post about material numbering. If ECM is active, you will need a change number to create a new material.
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