SD In Brief

SD in Brief:
- Enterprise Structure
- Master data
- Sales
- Shipping
- Billing
- Sales info system
- Transportation
- Sales support
- Foreign Trade

Enterprise structure:
IDES means: Internet Demonstration and Evaluation System.

SD Organization units:
- Company code
- Sales area
o Sales Organization
o Distribution channel
o Division
- Plant
- Storage Location
- Shipping Point
- Sales Office
- Sales Group
- Sales Personals
Sales Line: Sales organization – distribution channel – Plant

Definitions:
Company Code: a complete independent accounting unit, represented as smallest organizational unit in external accounting.
Sales Organization: it is unit in logistic which groups the enterprise according to the requirement of sales and distribution. It has its own master data for customer, material and conditions and did not share it master data with other sales organization. it is responsible for distribution goods and services, for negotiating sales, carry out each business transaction.
Distribution channel: it is a means through which material or service reaches to customers. We can create master data for customer, material or conditions.
Division: it represents a product line. We can have master data for customer and conditions. ( not for material master).
Sales area: it defines the distribution channel, a sales organization uses to sell products from a certain division.

Plant: the plant is location where materials are kept. In R/3, plant can represent a production facility or simply grouping of locations (Storage location) in physical proximity.

Shipping Point: Highest organizational unit in Shipping that controls all shipping activity. A shipping point can be a loading ramp, a mail depot, or a rail depot. It can also be a group of employees responsible only for urgent deliveries. A shipping point is physical place and should be near to delivering plant. One shipping point can belongs to several plant and one plant can have several shipping point.
It is decided in sales order based on Plant, shipping condition and loading group.