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The sales order process can be found in SAP logistics menu (transaction VA01).
Choose first an Order type. The order type for this exercise is OR Standard Order. The customers
and products are assigned to a Sales organization. You can enter the sales organization in the initial
screen or later. Fill in the following data: Sales organization: 1000, Distribution Channel: 10,
Division: 00. The combination of sales organization, distribution channel and division is called
Sales Area.
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Customer 1000 has several delivery locations and you must select a Ship-to party. Select 1000.
Here is another integration point. The Ship-to party determines the tax code and country.
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If you had tried to make an order of 1000 pc, the availability control would notify you, that this is
not possible. In a demo environment this can often happen, as there is no production. If you
encounter this problem, you can create stock coverage for the exercise in MM. How to do this is
explained at the end of this presentation.
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You might end up to this screen, if there is no availability. Here the arrow buttons are gray. To get
back to the sales order screen, click One-time-delivery-button.
The order is now complete. Open the tab Shipping. Note the Delivery date and shipping point. You
need to know these, when you make the delivery.
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Double click the sales order line item. Open tab Account Assignment. No postings to accounting
are generated from the sales order, but the profit center is determined here. The profit center is
copied from the sales order to the delivery and invoice. It can only be changed in the sales order.
Also the profitability segment is shown. It depends on your COPA-settings whether COPA is
updated with sales order items, billing items or both.
Where did the profit center come from? In this case the profit center is taken from the material
master Sales/General/Plant Data -view for the delivering plant (transaction MM03). Another
possibility would be that the profit center is determined from the sales order substitution rules. With
substition rules you can define the rules and the profit center according to your needs (transaction
0KEL). If no profit center is found and COPA is active, the profit center will be dummy profit
center. In case COPA is not active and profit center accounting is and there profit center is not
found from the product or substitution rule, it will be left empty. This will cause an error in billing.
The profit center is copied from sales order tables to delivery and billing tables and cannot be
changed later.
Save the sales order and note the order number.
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The default profit center comes from material master view Sales: General/Plant Data.
Look at the master record of material R-1180 (transaction MM03).
Enter the plant 1000, Sales organization 1000 and Distribution Channel 10.
Profit center information is plant specific. If the product sold is maintained on several plants, which
profit center is selected to the sales order? The answer is the profit center of the delivering plant.
You find the delivering plant in material master
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The delivering plant and tax information are in the Sales Organization view 1.
The Account Assignment group of the material in Sales Organization view 2 is often used in
combination with Account Assignment Group for customer to SD account determination. For this
product it is not relevant.
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The profit center of the plant 1000 for this product is 1500, which the same as for the delivering
plant 1200. However, they could be different. The profit center defaulted in the sales order is the
profit center of the delivering plant.
The profit center can be dtermined using a substitution rule in profit center accounting. The rules
are maintained in configuration but can be looked at in profit center accounting.
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Here a rule for division is created. If the division is 04 the defaulted profit center is changed to
1200.
The substitution takes normally place in sales order. However, for intercompany transactions it
takes place in billing.
If there is no profit center to be found and copa is active, the posting goes to a dummy
profit center.
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The initial screen for delivery opens. The information needed to create a delivery is copied from the
sales order.
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If you get an error message “No schedule lines due for delivery up to the selected date” or wrong
shipping point, go back to the sales order and check the shipping point and delivery date.
Open the picking tab. You can see that the picked quantity is locked. This means that this product
cannot be picked in this screen, a WM transfer order is required.
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You have to first save the delivery. Note the delivery number
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All this has so far been irrelevant of accounting perspective. The most important transaction
remains to be done, the goods issue posting. The goods issue date is the posting date for the
inventory postings. This is the date, when the ownership of the goods changes.At this point the
inventory balance is changed. The Goods issue date is in the standard system the same as the billing
date. If you press the Post Goods Issue button here, the date will be the current date (19.11.)
although the planned goods movement date is first 27.11. You can also specify the Actual good
movement date.
Go back to the menu and choose from Shipping and Transportation / Outbound delivery / Change
(transaction VL02N)
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Your delivery number should come defaulted, if not enter it. Confirm with enter.
Open the Picking tab. You can see that the Overall WM status has changed and there is 1 pc in both
the delivery and picked quantity.
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3 Billing
3.1 Create billing document
When the delivery is completed, the order can be billed.
Go back to the menu and select from menu Billing / Billing document Create (transaction VF01). In
the document field the delivery number should be defaulted. If it is not there, enter your delivery
number.
Press enter and you will see the invoice to be created. Save the document. Note the invoice number.
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Press enter on the Display Billing Document screen and look at the created invoice. Note that the
payer is not the customer 1000, but customer 1050. Double click on the item line and open tab Item
partners.
From integration point billing creates the revenue postings and updates accounts receivable.
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The posting goes to company code 1000, which was assigned to the sales organization 1000. The
used reconciliation account can be seen behind the customer line. The profit center is 1500, which
has come from the material master.
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Here you can see the SD condition types and the accounting information generated. PR00 is the
condition for sales revenue. The condition RL00 is a factoring discount. It is an invoice list
condition and does not generate postings for the invoice.
Open first level 10 of condition PR00. This tells you that the account determination could not be
done because the account assignment group is missing.
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Open level 20. Revenue Account 800000 is determined. All the condition steps have valid values.
This is the place were you can examine the causes of accounting errors.
The accounting document created at SD billing contains typically following three lines:
- Customer posting in accounts receivable and simultaneously posting to
reconciliation account in general ledger
- Sales revenue posting
- Tax posting
There can also be other accounts like discounts, but let's find out where these accounts come from.
The reconciliation account comes from the paying customer's master data.
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4 Account determination
Now the sales order process is completed. Let's take a closer look at it from the accounting
perspective.
The document flow ties together all the documents of the sales process. Put the cursor on the line
and click on 'Display document' to open the document.
Accounting documents are created at the goods issue and billing. The text 'not cleared' next to the
accounting document means that the invoice is not paid yet.
The integration points are following:
1. Sales order: the profit center is determined and copied to the following
documents
2. Goods issue: posting to inventory and inventory change accounts.
3. Invoice: posting to revenue account, accounts receivable and tax accounts
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The profit center is defined at sales order level. Depending on the system settings the profit center
comes either from the material master (View: Sales:General/Plant) according to delivering plant
(transaction MM03) or from the Sales order substitution rules defined in profit center accounting
(transaction 0KEL). With these rules the profit center can be defined for example according to sales
organisation, product or customer characterics.
If no profit center is found and COPA is active, the dummy profit center is used. If COPA is not
active, the profit center is left empty and you will get an error situation in billing.
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The stock posting goes to a balance sheet account and the offsetting posting to inventory change
(P&L account).
The posting is created automatically at goods issue and the system has to find somewhere all the
necessary information for the posting. The accounts used are determined in MM automatic account
determination. The account assignments of the offsetting posting depend on the settings.
If the account is not defined as a cost element the posting goes to the profit center from the material
master.
If the account is a cost element, a cost object becomes mandatory. Usually the system looks for it in
the CO automatic account assigment table OKB9. In this example the cost assignment is a
profitability segment and the posting rules are defined in COPA IMG.
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In the invoice you can find accounting information from several places. There is a direct link to
accounting documents. The Accounting button lists all the accounting documents created. From the
Environment menu you find Account determination Analysis, which lets you analyze how the
account determination is made. On both header and item level you will also find lots of accounting
relevant data.
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The account assignments of the offsetting posting depend on how the account is defined. If the
inventory change account is not defined as a cost element, the posting goes to a profit center. Here
the profit center is copied from the sales order. It can come from a substitution rule or from the
material master.
If the account is defined as a cost element, it requires a cost assignment, which can be a cost center,
order or profitability segment. As the good issue posting is an automatic posting, the system has to
find the assignment automatically. It looks for the assignment in CO automatic account assignment
table OKB9. You can also define Automatic assignment to a COPA profitability segment (COPA-
IMG: PA transfer structures, tr. KEI2), which is the case here.
4.5.1.2 Accounts
The accounts are defined in MM customizing under Valuation and account assignment. MM
account determination is not a 'straight forward -task. SAP has has made Wizard to assist in this.
Here I will only show you how to find the configurations for our example.
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Start the 'Configure automatic postings under 'Account determination without the Wizard'. If you
get a pop up for missing account grouping code, press cancel. CLick the 'Simulation' button.
Enter the plant (1200), material number (R-1180) and movement type 601 Goods issue Delivery.
Press enter and then click the Account Assignments button.
On the simulation screen the system combines all the relevant information and shows the accounts
it has determined.
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There can also be other accounts like discounts. Let's study the origin of these postings.
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In spite of the title 'revenue account determination', this is where the settings for all other accounts
are made as well.
Select option Assign G/L accounts.
SD account determination is based on condition techniques. The system reads the conditions
sequentially searching for a match. In this IDES case it will find the match on the second level in
condition CustomerAccountGroup/AccountKey.
Click on the second row. The table looks baffling, but is really is not that complicated.
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In the first column you have the appilication. It is always V, which comes from the german word
for sales. Next you have a condition type. There are two alternatives. You choose KOFI, if the
posting goes to accounts that in CO are revenue elements (cost element types 11 and 12) and the
account assighment is profitablity segment (COPA) or profit center. This is usually the case for
revenues and discounts. KOFIK is used if you want to post to an account that is a cost element
(type 01) and the account assignment is cost center. In the third column you give the name of your
Chart of Accounts. In the fourth column enter the name of the Sales Organisation. In the fift
column you give the Account assignment group of the paying customer. Next comes the Account
assignment key. This is defined in SD customizing and is in SD pricing assigned to SD conditions
like sales price.
You don't anywhere define the company code in whose accounting the entry is made. This is
determined indirectly via the sales organisation, which is assigned to the company code.
The Account assignment groups for customers and materials are defined in SD IMG /
Account assignment/costing customizing under 'Check masterdata relevant for account
assignment'.
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Enter the product, press enter and select the view 'Storage location stock'.
Here you can see that there are currently 299 pieces of this product in the stock.
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An easy way to increase the stock is to do a goods receipt without purchase order (transaction
MB1C).
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Press enter. On the next page you can see the account, where this transaction is posted. Save the
posting.
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Check the storage after the posting and you can see that the balance has increased.
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In real life you should moninitor the use of MM movement type 501, because it provides an easy
way to manipulate the balances.
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