Sales Area Determination for STO deliveries

In SAP Fashion Management Solution (FMS); Sales area determination for Stock transport order deliveries can be controlled via setting in the supplying site – “Valuation / Inv. Mgmnt” tab – field “Sales Area Determination”

Let’s take an example and understand how it works.

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Outbound Scheduling with customer calendar

Sometime back we discussed about the Transportation scheduling in SAP. Please click here to read it. Today I will explain the system behavior of assigning a unloading point calendar to the ship to party with the transportation scheduling activated.

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How to determine multiple delivery types for a one sales document type

When you create a delivery note with reference to a sales order in SAP, the delivery type is determined based on the configuration you have done in the sales document type customizing. You can see it in the below IMG path:

Sales and Distribution / Sales / Sales Documents / Sales Document Header / Define Sales Document Type
Field "Delivery Type" under the section "Shipping"

During delivery note creation, if you have maintained correct copy control settings, system will automatically determine this delivery type for the delivery document.

Now let's say, you need to determine a different delivery type (Eg: ZLF) for same sales document type. This cannot be done automatically via standard configuration. But it is possible to switch the delivery type during delivery creation in the transaction VL01N. But this feature is not available in any other delivery creation transactions such as VL10A, VL10C, etc. 

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How to track delivery note deletion

Some time back we discussed about how to prevent delivery document deletion in the system. (Click here to view it). But in some businesses it is often requested to keep this functionality available for users, but track the deletion of delivery notes. This is similar to a system audit on delivery document deletion.

There is no such standard functionality available for this in SAP. But you can achieve this via below mentioned user exit coding.

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How to set a default variant to a Transaction VL06O

The initial selection screen you get for the transaction VL06O has 8 button options. Requirement is to appear only 4 buttons as soon as the transaction is being called. This can be handled by variants functionality in SAP.

If you set a custom variant (Z), user will see all 8 buttons when he logged in to the transaction code. Then user has to select the relevant Z variant from the variant selection button. A default variant for a transaction code is not possible with custom variants (Z). If you want to apply a default variant for a transaction, you have to save that variant as a system variant.

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Creating Prepack Articles in FMS

There are different types of article masters that one can create in FMS. Previously we discussed the creation of Generic Article Master in FMS – Click here. In this document we will take a look at how we can create a Structured Article. There are different types of structured articles – Sales sets, Displays and Prepacks which can be used for different business scenarios based on whether they are purchased, sold and kept in inventory together or not. The common factor making it a structured article is that they are made up of a number components. So inherently they will have a Bill of Material which shows the quantities of the components they are made up of.

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Delivery Type Determination for STO's

In our previous posts, we learnt about below 4 different Stock transport order types and respective configuration steps. 

1. Intra – Company STO – Click here 
2. Inter – Company STO – Click here 
3. Rush STO – Click here 
4. STO between Storage Locations – Click here 

As part of the Stock Transport Order logistic execution process, we need to create an outbound delivery with reference to STO number using transaction VL10B. In order to create a delivery document with reference to any other SAP object, we need to have copy control settings between those 2 document types. For example, in order to create a delivery with reference to a sales order, we need to have sales order type to delivery type copy controls maintained. 

But in case of a STO, we do not have copy control customizing between purchase order type (STO Type) to outbound delivery type (Eg: NB to NLCC or UB to NL). Therefore, it is interesting to understand how SAP handles such scenario’s in customizing. 

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Free Goods Determination in SAP

Free goods is a standard SAP delivered functionality that can be implemented to handle promotions such as “Buy 2 get 1 Free”. In this case, you have 2 scenarios to look at.

1 – Buy 2 get 1 free – In this case customer is only paying for 1 item and physically getting 2. This scenario is known as “Inclusive”

2 – Buy 2 and get 3rd item free – In this case, customer only pays for 2 items and he get’s another item for free. This scenario is known as “Exclusive”

Let’s see how we can configure the inclusive free goods scenario in SAP. Fee goods use the famous condition technique in SAP. Please click here to read about the condition technique in SAP.

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Debugging in VL10 transactions

As we already know it is hard to debug VL10 transactions in general. Therefore SAP has introduced a user friendly way of jumping in to debug mode for VL10X transactions. It is done via a hardcoded breakpoint in the ABAP program. But can be activated via a user parameter. If you want to activate the debug mode for VL10 transaction, please add the user parameter “LEDSP_DEBUG_MODE” in transaction SU3. 

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Schedule Job for STO Delivery Creation

In this document we will take a look at how we can schedule a background job to create outbound deliveries for STOs using the delivery due list in SAP. (similar to delivery creation for sales orders) 

Typically this is done using VL10B transaction and can be automated and scheduled as a batch job if the business has a requirement for automation of the creation of STO deliveries.

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FMS Stock Transport Orders with negative inventory at the site

In complex retail businesses, goods need to be moved from distribution center (DC) to store, store back to distribution center as well as between stores. In order to handle this business process, standard SAP functionality called “Stock Transport Orders” (STO’s) are commonly used. Please click here to view configuration steps required to configure STO’s in your system.

Due to complexity of the work and practical difficulties, most of the stores (Sites) tend to finish / record their daily transactions in SAP after the business day closure. For example, let’s say there is an inbound STO from another store asking for 100 quantities from material ABC. In the SAP system; user can find 98 as available, but physically quantity 100 is available in the stock. In such a case, typical store manager would want to deliver 100 right away and do the stock adjustment for + 2 after the business day closure.

In this case (until the stock adjustment is posted); store inventory for material ABC needs to go negative. Standard SAP supports this functionality and today let’s see what we need to configure in SAP FMS for it. I will explain the configuration / process steps using below example. 

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Stock Transport Orders between Storage Locations in FMS

Some time back we discussed about how we can setup stock transport orders in SAP. 

• Inter Company Stock Transport Orders - Click here
• Intra Company Stock Transport Orders - Click here
• Rush Stock Transport Orders - Click here

Similarly, it’s very often requested by certain customers to setup stock transport orders to move stock between storage locations within same plant.

For example, let’s say you have two buildings in same physical location and those were configured as two different storage locations under one plant (Site) in SAP. If you want to move goods between one building to the other (mean in SAP it has to be one storage location to the other), you have 2 ways of handling it in SAP.

1. You can do an inventory transport posting between storage location to storage location
2. You can use the stock transport order process between two storage locations

Today we will see how we can setup stock transport order process between two storage locations in SAP FMS. Since I am using SAP FMS, some setting might be different from what you have seen in standard SAP (R/3). 

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Stock Transport Orders Between Storage Locations in FMS

Inter company Stock Transport Order Processing

Companies with plants in multiple locations typically have the requirement to transfer stock between plants. The STO (stock transport order) process is used to handle this transfer systematically in SAP. 

However if these plants belong to different Company Codes then we need to use the Intercompany STO process. This requires several configuration steps and prerequisites to be in place for this solution to work and entities can benefit from the ability to monitor stock in transit, traceability through document flow and ability to account for delivery costs on the stock transport order.

In this document we will discuss the prerequisites and configuration that needs to be in place to achieve the Inter company Stock Transport Order process in SAP.
Please click here to read the invoice creation part of this process.

• For Intra Company Stock Transport Order Processing, please click here.
• For Rush Stock Transport Orders in SAP Fashion Management Solution (FMS) (Where delivery get created automatically at STO save), click here.
• For stock transport orders between storage locations, please click here.

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Rush Stock Transport Orders in FMS (Immediate Delivery Creation at STO Save)

Most of us are familiar with “Rush sales order processing” in SAP. This is to create a delivery document as soon as a sales order is saved in SAP. If you’re working in SAP IS-AFS (Industry Solution – Apparel and Footwear) or SAP FMS (Fashion Management Solution) system, the allocation process (Commonly known as ARun) should take place in background automatically. (In FMS, “ARun” will execute in background only in case if the Site / Article is setup as “ARun” relevant).

We have similar setup for stock transport orders (STO), where we can automatically create a delivery document in the supplying site (plant), when stock transport order is saved in SAP. This process also known as immediate delivery creation at stock transport orders or Rush STO. Similar to above rush sales order scenario, Allocation / ARun needs to be executed in background in SAP IS-AFS or SAP FMS for rush STO’s. 

• For Intra Company Stock Transport Orders (Stock transport between between plants in the same Company), please click here.
• For Inter Company Stock Transport Orders (Stock transport between between plants in different Companies), please click here.
• For stock transport orders between storage locations, please click here.

Today we will discuss how we can configure a new rush stock transport order type (STO) in SAP FMS. 

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How to configure an Organization Structure in SAP FMS

In every SAP implementation, first activity is to understand the business requirement in detail and map those in SAP. This time of the project is commonly known as blue print phase. During blue print phase, one of our key activities is to identify and map their organizational chart into SAP format. This org chart is commonly known as organization structure in SAP. Unlike in any other SAP industry solution, IS-Retail and SAP FMS is different in terms of the plant (Site) creation. Plant (Site) creation is known to be a configuration in all other SAP versions, where as IS-Retail and SAP FMS having it as a master data. Today we will see how to configure a sample organization structure in SAP FMS. 

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  How to Configure an Organization Structure in SAP FMS

Process Inbound IDOCs Using Serialization

When there is a dependency between IDOC message types while processing or distributing, IDOCs must be processed in a serialized manner. 

In order to achieve this requirement, IDOC serialization must be used.

i.e. Vendor Master, Customer Master, Material Master, etc.

If you want to read about how we can process Inbound IDOCs from PI Using Serialization; please click here.

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How to Configure Delivery Creation Transaction VL10X

Based on various business requirements it is possible to use VL10X transaction for delivery note creation. As an example we use VL10C for sales order line item delivery document creation, VL10E can be used to create delivery documents for schedule lines, etc.

Therefore it is necessary understand how to configure this transaction based on your business requirement. SAP has given a provision to configure this transaction via a functionality called "Delivery Scenario" and "List profile (Role)". These fields can be seen under the "User Role" tab of the VL10X transactions.

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How to see the change log for deleted deliveries

It’s often requested by the business to see who has deleted a delivery document in the system. Once document is deleted, you cannot view the change log of that document and therefore you don’t have any method to capture those changes (including who has deleted that delivery document)

If you want to see how to prevent the delivery document deletion in your SAP system, please click here. 

If you want to see how to block the sales document delete option, click here.

In this document, I will explain how you can view the change log of a deleted delivery document. 

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Intra Company Stock Transport Order Processing

It’s often required to transfer stock between plants in a same company code. For example, if one plant has stock, which is required by the other plant, you need to have a mechanism in SAP to do that. As part of the SAP process, you should be able to track the stock in transit and print all documents required for that as well. Plant to plant stock movement in SAP is known as Stock Transport Orders in SAP (STO).

• For Rush Stock Transport Orders (Where delivery get created automatically at STO save), click here.
• For Inter Company Stock Transport Orders, please click here.
• For stock transport orders between storage locations, please click here.

Let’s see how we can configure Inter Company STO process today.

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  Intra Company Stock Transport Order Processing

Transportation Scheduling in SAP

Transportation scheduling (Outbound Scheduling) is a standard SAP functionality which can be used to determine more accurate confirmed delivery date to the customer.

During sales order creation, user has to enter the customer requested delivery date in the sales order line item. Based on the address where the ship to party is located and where goods are delivered from (Plant / Shipping point) and system determine a route for this delivery. This route contains number of dates required for the transportation (Transportation lead time). Based on above information, system executes the transportation scheduling. 

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