Sd

• SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) module


  Allows organizations to store and manage customer- and product-related data. Functionalities include sales support, sales, shipping and transportation, billing, credit management, and foreign trade.
• SD organizational structure


  • Client
  • Company Code
  • Credit Control Area
  • Sales Organization
  • Distribution Channel
  • Division
  • Sales Area
  • Plant
  • Shipping Point
  • Loading Point
  • Sales Office
  • Sales Group
  • Sales Person
• SD Master Data


  3 types: Customer Master, Material Master, and Condition Master

  
• Customer Master


  Contains all the necessary information for processing orders, deliveries, invoices, and customer payments. Divided into General Data, Company Code Data, and Sales Area Data.

  
• Material Master


  Contains all the information a company needs to manage about a material. Divided into General Information, Sales, and Storage Location views.

  
• Condition Master (Pricing)


  Includes prices, surcharges, discounts, freights, and taxes. Can be defined as dependent on various data.
• Output


  Information sent to the customer using various media such as email, mail, fax, and Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). Output type defines how the output should be transmitted.
• SD Processes (Order-to-Cash)


  1. Pre-sales Activities

  2. Sales Order Entry

  3. Check Availability

  4. Pick Materials

  5. Pack Materials

  6. Post Goods Issue

  7. Invoice Customer

  8. Receipt of Customer Payment
• Pre-sales Activities


  Fulfill functionalities such as creating and tracking customer contacts and communications, and implementing and tracking direct mailing, Internet, and trade fair campaigns based on customer attributes.
• Inquiry


  A customer's request to a company for information or quotation concerning their products or services without any obligation to purchase.
• Quotation


  A legally binding offer to deliver specific products or a selection of a certain amount of products in a specific timeframe at a predefined price.
• Sales Order Entry


  Contains customer information, material/service and quantity, pricing, specific delivery dates and quantities, shipping information, and billing information.
• Delivery Schedule


  Determines the material availability or the ATP (Availability to Promise) data using predefined forward and backward scheduling rules.
• Shipping Point and Route Determination


  Determines the shipping point from which the material will be shipped and the route the material will take to get from the warehouse to the customer's location.
• Pricing


  The system automatically searches for prices, discounts, surcharges, calculated taxes, and freights. The company can also manually manipulate the pricing at the header and the line item level.
• Credit Limit Check


  Allows the company to manage its credit exposure and risk for each customer by specifying customer limits.
• Availability Check


  Determines the material availability date and considers all inward and outward inventory movements. Proposed delivery methods include one-time delivery, complete delivery, and delayed proposal.
• Shipping & Transportation


  1. Delivery creation

  2. Picking

  3. Loading and Packing

  4. Goods Issue
• Delivery creation


  Checks orders and materials to determine if a delivery is possible and whether there is a delivery block that puts the order on hold. Includes availability confirmation, total weight and volume determination, packing proposal generation, scheduling checking, partial deliveries consideration, route assignment update, picking location assignment, sales order update, batches determination, quality checking, and sales order update.
• Picking


  Considers quantities based on delivery note, assigned date when picking should begin, automated storage location assignment, supports serial number/lot number tracking and batch management, and is integrated with Warehouse Management.
• Loading and Packing


  Identifies the packaging to be used for specified products, tracks packed products by container, ensures weight/volume restrictions are enforced, and assigns all packed items to the required means of transportation.
• Goods Issue


  An event that could indicate a legal change in ownership of the products. Signals that the goods have left the seller's premises.
• Billing


  1. Order-based billing

  2. Delivery-based billing

  3. Collective invoicing

  4. Split invoicing
• Billing


  The billing process is used to generate the customer invoice and would also update the customer's credit status. The billing document is created by coping data from the sales order and/or delivery document.
• Payment


  The final step in the sales order process, which the Financial Accounting department manages. Includes posting payments against invoices and reconciling differences between payment and invoice.
• Document Flow


  The SAP updates the order status whenever a change is made to any document created in the customer order management cycle (Order-to-Cash).