Sales Order in SAP SD

A ‘Sales Order’ is a contract between your Sales Organization and a Customer for supply of specified goods and/services over a specified timeframe and in an agreed upon quantity or unit. All the relevant information from the customer master record and the material master record, for a specific sales area, are copied to the sales order. The sales order may be created with reference to a ‘preceding document’ such as a quotation, then all the initial data from the preceding document is copied to the sales order.

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Integration of Billing in SD Processes

The billing document represents the final function in the SD process chain. Billing is an important part of the financials interface. This allows documents to be created automatically in Financials Accounting and Controlling when you create billing documents. A billing document has structure similar to that of a sales document, with header and item. the billing type controls the billing document. The following is a list of billing types in SAP Systems:

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Discrete Manufacturing – The Made To Order Cycle and Make To Stock Cycle

In sap there is specific transaction flow for a particular Manufacturing Process. It all depends upon the requirement of client and process.

Here is the basic flow of transactions which is req. for creating master data, planning and order processing…

The Made TO Order Cycle:

The sale department passes on the Made to order-Sales Order to the Material department so that material requirement is analyzed. This is done in SAP by carrying on an MRP Run for all the levels of the product BOM. This MRP Run would create Planned Orders for the shortages. Here the planned orders for fert sub assemblies, Components etc, are created.

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SAP SD Service Order Processing Manual: Instructions and Specifications

Business Scenario Covered:

Your company offers maintenance and repair services for computer equipment. To do this, your staff sometimes visits your customer’s site. The Service Management (SM) component is not used by your company.

One of your customers informs you by telephone that they are having problems with their computer. An experienced employee decides that the problem has to be solved by a technician at the site and decides which spare parts they will need. The technician is automatically informed. He owns a ‘spare parts’ tool box which he fills by taking parts from the warehouse. The order confirmation contains the service (for example, technician category, hours taken) and a reminder that the dollar amount of the invoice depends on the time taken and cost of the repair.

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