Sales and Distribution With SAP: 100 Things You Should Know About
Sales and Distribution With SAP: 100 Things You Should Know About
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Tip 25
When you enter sales orders into the system, stock is promised to each of the docu-
ments on a first-come, first-serve basis. This doesn’t take into account that some of
your customers are more important than others and the limited supply of material
should be offered to them first. In this tip, we’ll show you a way to automate this
and execute rescheduling when either more products become available, or simply
to fill priority one deliveries and ship them immediately by taking stock from a
customer with a lower delivery priority setting.
This automated method will use delivery priority settings proposed from a cus-
tomer master or customer material info record. The system will sort the orders
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Tip 25 Automating Material Reallocation and Rescheduling
You should always run this job in a background mode during the time when sys-
tem resources aren’t critical since this transaction can dramatically affect system
performance.
To execute rescheduling in the foreground mode, fill out the following sections
(see initial screen in Figure 1):
E Data: Select your material or range of materials and plants in scope for
rescheduling.
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When you’re ready to run the simulation, click on the Execute button or press
[F8] to see the list of the proposed changes for your review (see Figure 2).
Next comes the checking rule selection. A checking rule defines the checking pro-
cedure for the availability check, taking into account, for example, purchase orders,
reservations, and production orders; this is all set in IMG configuration. Checking
rule A is used by default as a basis for rescheduling sales orders. Use checking rule
B for rush order exceptions, and for orders with individual customer stock, use
checking rule AE.
A list of proposed changes will show you materials, customer account numbers,
documents, order quantities, and old and new confirmed dates.
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Tip 25 Automating Material Reallocation and Rescheduling
If errors are displayed, you can review the log by using the pull-down menu (select-
ing Edit • Error log) as shown in Figure 3.
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Another useful feature included on this list is the List Orders button, which links
you directly to Transaction VA05 (Order List).
You can also change the scope of the list by clicking on the Improvements button.
Change the scope of the list again by clicking on the Deterioration button.
Once you review the results, return to the main selection screen, deselect the
Simulation radio button, and click on Execute or press (F8). You’ll be prompted
to accept your action.
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Tip 26
As mentioned in Tip 25, you can evaluate the results of your rescheduling run. If
your results weren’t exactly what you expected, you should review some of the
supporting master data that’s considered when rescheduling is applied (such as the
delivery priority that’s maintained in the customer master). In this tip, we’ll show
you how to find and analyze the results and determine if the system prioritized
the orders according to your needs.
You can restrict the documents you want to analyze using the selection parameters
in the initial screen.
Once you’ve indicated which documents you want to view, click on the Execute
button or press (F8). You’ll see a list of changes applied in the last rescheduling run
(see Figure 1) showing materials, customer account numbers, documents, order
quantities, and old and new confirmed dates.
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E The ability to drill into any of the orders displayed by opening them in change
mode, allowing you to make changes as needed on the fly. Double-click on the
listed sales orders, click on the Change Document button, or press (F2).
E The List Orders button links you directly to Transaction VA05 (Order List).
E Change the scope of the list by clicking on the Improvements button or press-
ing (F7) and the Deterioration button or (F8).
E If any errors were recorded during processing, you can review the log by using
the pull-down menu (select Edit • Error log) or press (Shift) + (F6).
If you don’t like the results of the changes applied, you can go back to the initial
rescheduling transaction (V_V2, see Tip 25) and run the update with the original
or changed selection criteria.
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Tip 27
Sales orders are defined in such a way that a block can be applied to the document
due to configuration settings, credit check, and many other influencing factors.
These blocks will prevent them from being available for delivery. Another impor-
tant fact is that a block can be applied to the header, item, or both. If you have a
significant number of orders that go on the delivery block, you need to review and
unblock these orders immediately to prevent a loss of revenue.
On the initial screen of the transaction (shown in Figure 1), specify the following
fields:
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Run the report by clicking on the Execute icon or pressing (F8). On the following
screen you’ll see the list of all blocked documents in the ALV list format (Figure
2).
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Tip 27 Processing Sales Documents That Are Blocked for Delivery
Here, you’ll find the SD document number, SD document category (like sales
order, contract), delivery block description and code, required delivery date, sold-
to and ship-to account numbers, sales document type, and block data. Select the
appropriate sales order line, and click on the Edit Sales Order button or press
(Ctrl)+(F10) on your keyboard.
««Figure 3 Change
Order Header Data
Screen Delivery
Block
Select the line data if you need to unblock the items as well. Once all order data is
complete, save your order by clicking on the Save button or pressing (Ctrl)+(S)
to return to the report. You’ve now successfully unblocked sales documents that
were blocked for delivery.
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Delivery block, 28, 77, 322 European Monetary Union (EMU), 137, 141
description, 100 Euro Workbench, 137, 140, 277
Detailed log message, 229, 246 Expiring contracts, 124
Determination procedures, 159 Exporting list to Excel, 115
Direct picking, 170 Extend customer, 30
Dispatch/export, 133 Extend material master views, 39
Display, 15 Extend material storage location view, 36
backorders, 87 Extend material view, 39
balances, 293 EXTRASTAT, 130
customer balances detail, 295
document, 236, 297
document header, 298 F
item details, 106
jobs, 148, 227, 240 Factory calendar, 249
logs, 237 Failed collective run, 278
scheduling, 148 Field changes, 29
shipment, 236 Field status groups, 13
variant, 113 Financial impact summary, 87
Distribution channel, 30, 53, 319 FI posting details, 297
Division, 53, 319 Fiscal year, 293
Document categories, 166 Fix bin, 183, 184, 187, 189
Document copy function, 116 Follow-up documents, 179
Document creation dates, 62 Forward blocked document, 284, 291
Document details, 297
Document flow, 16, 194, 212, 259
Document info, 291
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Document overview, 297
Document type, 122, 125 General data tab, 146
Double-column display, 251 Get variant, 231
Drill, 81, 97 Goods issue, 152, 182, 210
Dunning, 295 cancel, 211
Dynamic product proposal, 116 date, 90, 188
Goods movements, 46
Goods receipts, 130
E Group of deliveries, 155
Group type, 149
EAN number, 203
Edit incomplete data, 74, 100
Edit sales order, 100
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Employees, 52
Enter storage locations, 36 Handling unit, 46, 199, 202, 206, 219, 235
Environment, 29, 286 numbers, 206
menu, 123, 126 planned, 196
Equipment record, 46 Header segments, 335
Error log, 94, 97, 209 Hidden fields, 154
Error log for collective run, 279
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Hiding columns, 70 L
HTML format, 335
Hyperlinks, 336 Layout variant, 70
Line item detail, 294
Line items, 309
List billing documents, 263
I List customer balances, 293
IDoc List format, 304
documentation, 333 List of invoices, 274
failures, 337 List of promotions, 59
segment, 333, 336 List of sales deals, 57
Incompleteness Procedure, 177 List of sales orders, 112
Incomplete outbound deliveries, 177 List TOs by wave pick, 170
Incomplete SD documents, 27, 69, 72, 76, List variant, 324
118, 218, 277 Locked items, 193
Incompletion check, 72 Log, 166, 228, 244
Incompletion log, 74, 132 class, 229, 245
Information structure, 65
Info structure S159, 161
Intercompany billing, 17 M
Interval indicator, 303
INTRASTAT, 130, 135 Maintain blocking reasons, 28
print, 135 Maintain copy control, 17
Invoice list, 278 Maintain grouping criteria, 224
change, 275 Maintain materials, 40
collective logs, 277 Maintain pricing data, 49
Invoice receipts, 130 Maintain serial number data, 45, 49
Item category, 266 Maintain variant, 70
TAP, 109 Mass change, 114, 219
Item category group Mass maintenance, 20
LUMF, 107 Master data comparison, 33
Item proposals, 62, 116 Match codes, 150
Item segments, 335 Material availability, 119
Material intercompany sales price, 18
Material list variant, 89
Material master, 39, 120, 126, 187
J Material number, 46, 81, 203
Job parameters, 240 Material type WETT, 64
Maximum stock, 184
Microsoft Excel, 297, 304, 306, 309
Minimum stock, 184
K Missing master data, 33
Key fields, 21, 331 Monthly overview summary, 89
Key figures, 320 MRP, 38
Kits in sales orders, 107 Multiple deliveries, 155, 254
My item proposals, 62
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QuickView, 341
QuickViewer, 326 S
Quotations, 121
expiration date, 122 S_ADMI_FCD, 70
Safety stock, 120
Sales activities, 52, 55
R Sales and Distribution interface system, 337
Sales area, 58, 63
Random storage put-away, 189 Sales areas by customer, 28
Range of documents, 291 Sales BOM, 108
Rating, 303 Sales contracts, 285
Reason for rejection, 77 Sales deals, 57
Receipt/import, 130 Sales document, 101, 139, 268, 287
Re-check blocked sales document, 284, 291 release, 288, 291
Reject credit, 284, 286, 288, 291 type, 100
Released orders, 288, 291 Sales Information System (SIS), 318
Released SD documents, 285 Sales not allowed, 43
Release sales document, 284 Sales order, 43, 46, 285, 301
Release to accounting, 261 change, 74, 100
Relevant for billing, 266 creation, 62
Remove delivery block, 100 data, 287
Replenishment, 187, 189 quick change, 76
control, 183 reference, 205
levels, 187 Sales organization, 28, 53, 160, 265, 274,
quantity, 184 319
Report Sales summary, 54
RKECADL1, 271 Sales support, 28
RKERV002, 269 Sales tab, 69
RLAUTA10, 186 Sales tables, 330
RVSPERAU, 324 Sales volume by customer, 318
Required entry, 15 Sales volume by material, 319
Requirement number, 188 SAP Inbox, 337
Requirements, 119 create attachment, 339
Rescheduling, 91, 96 deadline messages, 338
Return goods to stock, 192 documents, 338
Reversal of goods issue, 210 new message, 339
Reverse the PGI, 210 overdue entries, 338
Review invoice lists, 277 workflow, 338
Risk category, 300, 303 SAP list viewer, 294
Role, 147 SAP Mail, 337
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