SAP SD

SAP SD Online Training Course Details

SAP SD (Sales and Distribution) is one of the significant modules of SAP ERP. It is used to store the customer and product data of an organization. SAP SD helps to manage the shipping, billing, selling and transportation of products and services of a company.

The SAP Logistics module manages customer relationship starting from raising a quotation to sales order and billing of the product or service. This module is closely integrated with other modules like SAP Material Management and PP.

This is an introductory tutorial that covers the basics of SAP SD and how to deal with its various modules and sub-modules.

SAP Sales and Distribution is one of the key components of SAP ERP system and is used to manage shipping, billing, selling and transportation of products and services in an organization.

SAP Sales and Distribution module is a part of SAP Logistics module that manages customer relationship starting from raising a quotation to sales order and billing of the product or service. This module is closely integrated with other modules like SAP Material Management and PP.

Key Components in SAP SD

The key components in SAP Sales and Distribution module are −

  • Customer and Vendor Master Data
  • Sales Support
  • Shipping of Material
  • Sales Activities
  • Billing related
  • Transportation of products
  • Credit Management
  • Contract Handling and Management
  • Foreign Trade
  • Information System

SAP SD – Organizational Structure

SAP provides many components to complete SAP Sales and Distribution organizational structure like Sales Areas, Distribution Channels, Divisions, etc. The SAP SD organization structure majorly consists of two steps −

  • Creation of Organization elements in SAP system, and
  • second is to link each element as per requirement.

On top of this organization structure in the SD module, sales organization is at highest level and is responsible for distribution of goods and services. SAP recommends to keep the number of sales organization in an organizational structure to be minimum. This will help in making the reporting process easy and ideally it should have a single sales organization.

The next level is distribution channel, which tells the medium by which the products and services are distributed by an organization to its end users. Division in an organizational structure, which represents a product or service line in a single organization.

A sales area is known as entity, which is required to process an order in a company. It comprises of sales organization, distribution channel and a division.

In SAP SD organizational structure, each sales organization is assigned to a company code. Then the distribution channel and divisions are assigned to sales organization and all of these comprise to make a sales area.

In the first step of an SD organizational structure, sales organization is assigned to a company code and then is to define a distribution channel and then division to a sales organization.

The following diagram shows the organizational structure of a Sales and Distribution module −

The SD control

The SD order is a document created manually, by interface, using a pre-sales document such as a quotation or a contract. Its main functions are :

  • Generate post-sale documents for contracts, commercial offers, calls for tender
  • Generate purchase orders
  • Check that the stock will be available on the desired delivery date, manage partial orders or not
  • To determine the dates of availability of the goods, taking into account the preparation, loading and transport times
  • Monitor the progress of the order through a status system
  • To have the document flow between the 3 main documents SD order/delivery/invoicing

SAP SD Online Training Course Content :

Introduction to SAP.
Enterprise Structure.
➢ Definitions.
➢ Assignments. Business Process.
➢ Master Data.
➢ Customer Master Data.
➢ Material Master Data.
➢ Customer – Material Info Record.
➢ Pricing Master Data.
➢ Documents.
➢ Sales Document Header.
➢ Item Category.
➢ Assign Item Category.
➢ Schedule Line Category.
➢ Pricing.
➢ Condition types for pricing.
➢ Access Sequence.
➢ Condition Tables.
➢ Define Pricing Procedure.
➢ Condition Exclusion Group for Pricing.
➢ Free Goods.
➢ Revenue Account Determination.
➢ Partner Determination Procedure.
➢ Assign Relevant Partner Function for PDP.
➢ Define & Assign Partner Determination Procedure for Sales Document
Header.
➢ Text Determination Procedure.
➢ TAX Determination Procedure.
➢ Output Determination Procedure.
➢ Assign Output Determination Procedure.
➢ Route Determination.
➢ Define Routes and Stages.
➢ Transportation Connection Point.
➢ Define Modes of Transport.
➢ Incompletion Log.
➢ Sales Document Header.
➢ Sales Document Item.
➢ Sales Document Schedule Line.
➢ Copy Control for Sales Document.
➢ Copy Control for Delivery Document.

➢ Copy Control for Billing Document.
➢ Rush Order.
➢ Cash Sales Order.
➢ Material Determination Procedure.
➢ Item Proposal.
➢ Material Listing and Exclusion.
➢ Cross Selling.
➢ Bill of Material (BOM).
➢ Third Party Sales.
➢ Inter company Sales
➢ Credit Management / Risk Management.
➢ Transfer of Requirement and Availability Check
➢ Consignment Business Process.
➢ Consignment Fill Up.
➢ Consignment Issue.
➢ Consignment Return.
➢ Consignment Pick Up.
➢ Billing Document Types.
➢ Introduction to 18 Billing Documents.
➢ Billing Document Header.
➢ Rebates.
➢ ASAP Methodology.