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Monday, September 24, 2012

Selection variant maintenance in SAP

Selection variant is a very commonly used feature in SAP to save set of input values for a selection screen of a program. You can execute the program easily by calling the relevant variant. Selected variant will contain all necessary values for your selection criteria.

For example, if you run a report in SAP, you will first get a selection screen, where you need to maintain the selection criteria to filter data out of SAP. If you have to fill same set of data every time you execute this report, then you can save those values as a variant.
And also similar setup is significantly used in large scale SAP customer to execute AFS allocation run, delivery note creation, etc in the background mode.
These variants can be used both dialog mode (Online) and background execution. 

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Monday, September 17, 2012

Proof of Delivery (POD) Process in SAP

Proof of Delivery (POD) is a process used by some businesses which a customer invoice is created only after the customer confirmation received on the delivery receipt at their warehouse. In addition to that; system allows recording the POD Date, time and the actual quantity of goods that has been arrived. If there is a difference between quantity of goods issued and quantity of goods arrived, then possible reason for that difference. 
Some practical world reasons for above mentioned stock shortage can be theft, stock shrinkage, transportation damage, etc. This is very useful when negotiating with the forwarding agent as all possible deviations is reflected within SAP.
Based on the customer confirmed quantity (Received quantity at customers warehouse), now it is possible to create an accurate invoice in SAP. 

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Monday, September 10, 2012

Order Scheduling in SAP (IS AFS)


Order Scheduling is functionality available in SAP IS - AFS (Industry Solution - Apparel and Footwear) to optimize the delivery dates in the sales order line item. It is possible to define customer specific or business specific rules for the order scheduling.
For a given AFS material, there can be different confirmed delivery dates in different schedule lines (For different sizes). This is based on the settings in the master data, availability checks (ATP) and quantity on hand. 
AFS order scheduling functionality can be used to group schedule lines that can be delivered together. This way you can reduce number of delivery documents created for a sales order line item.

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