Test 1

• These notes relate to SAP S/4HANA Sales and Distribution

Material Availability Check

• An ordered quantity can be fully confirmed on the requested date despite partial stock due to the 'Complete Delivery' indicator being set in both the business partner master record and the customer material info record.

Sales Order Text Copying

• To copy a header text from the sold-to party to a sales order if it's absent in the quotation and use the sold-to party's language:
  • Include the text type with an access sequence in the text determination procedure.
  • Set the partner function language to "sold-to party" in the access sequence.
  • Assign the text determination procedure to the sales document type.

Multiple Address Handling

• With multiple address handling, address determination can be configured at these levels:
  • Origin and source of the partner function
  • Generic partner function

Assigning a New Plant

• A new plant must be assigned to the combination of the sales organization and distribution channel to be an allowed delivering plant for sales orders.

Shipping Point Determination

• The determination of the shipping point uses these fields:
  • Shipping conditions
  • Plant
  • Loading group

Pricing Element

• The pricing element that utilizes both a calculation type and a scale base type is the condition type.

Outline Agreements

• Details of confirmed material quantities and delivery dates are found in a scheduling agreement.

Material Substitution

• Automatic material substitution for unavailable ordered material is achieved by creating a material determination record with a substitution reason.

Freight Charge Distribution

• Automatic proportional distribution of freight charges among sales order items based on net value requires assigning a group condition routine to the freight charge.

Complex Pricing Scenarios

• Complex pricing scenarios can be set up by:
  • Defining requirements
  • Adding new fields for pricing

Outline Agreement Material Determination

• The material is determined from the item category in a scheduling agreement.

Service Item Characteristics

• The delivering Plant field is not required for service items in a sales order

Invoice List Process

• Invoice list process characteristics:
  • Sending the payer a single invoice list instead of individual invoices.
  • Creating an invoice list at specified time intervals or on specific dates.

Process Flow Characteristics

• Process flow characteristics in SAP S/4HANA:
  • Color coding indicates document status.
  • The process flow supports direct navigation to applications for issue resolution.

Credit Memo Prerequisites

• Prerequisites for creating a credit memo based on a credit memo request:
  • Copying control must exist between the sales document and the billing document.
  • The billing block field in the credit memo request must be empty.

Condition Exclusion

• The condition exclusion indicator can be set for:
  • Condition Type Groups
  • Condition Record

Modifying Condition Type Descriptions

• Changing the default description of a specific condition type for selected condition records can be achieved by:
  • Using the Manage Prices – Sales app.
  • Using the Change Condition (VK12) transaction.

Complete Sales Documents

• Saving only complete sales documents can be ensured by setting the Dialog Message for Incompletion flag in the configuration for the relevant sales document types.

Condition Record Requirements

• Every condition record must contain:
  • Validity period
  • Scale

Sold-to Party Texts

• The access sequence controls whether later changes to sold-to party texts are visible in the sales order.

SAP Smart Business Characteristics

• Characteristics of SAP Smart Business include:
  • Supports an exception-based working model.
  • Combines real-time insights with analytics and transactional follow-up activities.
  • Key performance indicators (KPIs) are visualized, and target thresholds can be defined.

Partial Delivery Settings

• Enable partial deliveries while minimizing the number of deliveries by setting "Order Combination" to "allowed" in the order header

Outbound Delivery Settings

• To create and goods issue an outbound delivery:
  • Define the goods movement type in the delivery item category.
  • Set the order item category to be relevant for delivery.
  • Define the goods movement type in the schedule line category.

Outbound Delivery Processing

• The shipping point organizational unit supports the processing and monitoring of outbound deliveries.

Backorder Processing Confirmation Strategies

• Confirmation strategies selectable during backorder processing:
  • Gain
  • Redistribute
  • Fill

Material Listing Procedure Assignment

• A material listing procedure is assigned to a combination of sales area, document pricing procedure, and customer pricing procedure.

Special Price For Customer

• A special price that ignores all applicable discounts for a customer, requires setting the Exclusion indicator in the condition records for all discounts.

Order Material Displayed Twice

• The functions that can cause the same material to appear twice in an order (once as a main item and once as a sub-item):
  • Material determination
  • Free goods

Differences Between Create Billing Documents Transaction and App

• Differences between the Create Billing Documents (VF04) transaction and the Create Billing Documents – Billing Due List Items app:
  • With the app, a user can block the automatic posting of billing documents.
  • With transaction VF04, a user can simulate the creation of multiple billing documents.

SAP Smart Business

• SAP Smart Business apps deliver exception-based processing, combining analytics with follow-up actions to resolve issues.

Billing Configuration

• These organizational units must be configured for billing in the sales process:
  • Company code
  • Sales organization

Billing Plan Type Use Case

• Milestone billing is a use case for a billing plan type.

Required Partner Functions Sales Order

• Missing partner functions that can cause a system message upon saving a sales order:
  • Ship-to party (SH)
  • Sold-to party (SP)

Value Contract Materials

• You can manage which materials can be released for a value contract by:
  • Assigning an assortment module to the value contract.
  • Assigning a product hierarchy to the value contract.

Mandatory SAP S/4HANA Organizational Assignments

• Mandatory SAP S/4HANA Sales organizational unit assignments:
  • Division to sales organization
  • Plant to combination of sales organization and distribution channel

Free Goods Item Category

• Free goods determination influences item category determination for the free-of-charge item:
  • Item category of the higher-level item
  • Item category usage provided by the ABAP code
  • Item category group from the material master

Payer Information

• Information that comes from the payer:
  • Payment Terms
  • Billing Address

Goods Issue Effects

• Posting the goods issue during a sales process:
  • Delivery requirements in material planning are updated.
  • The billing document can now be created.
  • The document flow is updated.

Decision Table Processing

• Characteristics of decision table processing include possible evaluation of the content of condition column cells by using comparison operators or value ranges.

Sales Order Fields

• Sales order fields that would prevent combining multiple sales orders into outbound deliveries if different:
  • Plant
  • Incoterms
  • Ship-to party