Item category determination based on Item category Usage

Let's say you want to determine a different item category based on the customer. We all know the item category determination is done based on the sales document type, item category group (from Material master) and the item category usage.

This article will explain how item category determination is done based on the "Item Category Usage".

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Item category determination based on Item category Usage

Message control settings for customer master

It is often requested by most of the businesses to have a control in customer master data creation, such as to avoid duplicate customer numbers with same address data, same VAT, number, etc. Standard SAP provides this facility via a message control settings in the customer master. You can configure standard SAP messages based on your business requirement to avoid such cases.

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Deactivate sales order block removal via user authorization

In most businesses, customer service user who creates sales orders will also have access to create credit / debit memo requests. Both these documents in SAP can be created via transaction - VA01 and changed via transaction - VA02. Usually customer service user will have access to both VA01 & VA02 transactions to support business functions. Since billing block in the credit / debit memo request can be removed via VA02 transaction, customer service user can also remove these blocks.

Due to certain authorization control requirements, management does not want to authorize customer service user to remove the billing block in the credit / debit memo requests. But he / she should be able to do all other functionalities in VA01 / VA02 transactions, except billing block removal via VA01 or VA02 transactions.

Let’s see today how we can achieve this functionality via authorization control objects available in SAP.

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ARun Drop Requirements - ARUN_DROP_REQ

This report drops / rejects open requirements for sales orders or stock transport orders (STO). These can be:

·     Non-allocated sales order items

·     Partially allocated sales order items

·     Non-allocated STO items

·     Partially allocated STO items

Non-allocated sales order line items are completely rejected using the rejection code you have defined in the customizing activity for that order type. For partially allocated sales orders, the Order Quantity for the specific sales order item is adjusted to match the allocated quantity and a new sales order item is created with the remaining units. This new sales order line item is then rejected with the rejection code you have defined for that order type.

Please use F1 help to read about this report in the SAP Easy Access Menu.

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Back Order Processing (BOP) - Supply Assignment in SAP S/4 Hana

Back Order Processing functionality in SAP S/4 Hana is used to do the re-ATP (Availability To Promise) and (or) Supply Assigned (Used to be known as ARun). This functionality is developed as Fiori Apps in SAP. User needs to login to Fiori apps to execute the BOP Run (Supply Assignment). Please note, it’s optional to run ATP together with Supply Assignment in a one BOP run.

Below 4 Fiori apps are commonly used for BOP run.

1. Create BOP Segment 

2. Create BOP variant 

3. Schedule BOP Run

4. Monitor BOP Run

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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 add new fields to VAS field catalog in S/4

Value Added Services (VAS) is a functionality that was delivered in SAP to handle services like packaging, monogramming, label printing, etc. VAS functionality also uses condition technique similar to pricing conditions, output conditions. You can create a VAS condition in the sales order and it can be transferred to delivery as well as to purchase orders.

In order to achieve this, we need to create condition tables, access sequence, condition types and condition records. In order to create condition tables, we can use standard SAP delivered condition tables, or can create custom VAS tables using VAS field catalog. Since we only have limited fields available to VAS field catalog, SAP has provide a method to add new fields and use them in VAS functionality.

Let’s look at an example of adding “Material Group 1” (MVKE-MVGR1) to VAS field catalog and use it in the OTC sales cycle.

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Refer Duplicate tick in Text determination procedure

In the text determination procedure configuration, we have a tick box called "Refer / Duplicate". Based on whether you have marked this tick box or not, the system behaves differently. 

Click here to view how to configure text determination procedure in SAP.

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How to add Cancel Date to Incompletion Procedure

It’s often requested by business users to make the sales order header “Cancellation Date” as mandatory field in the sales order. Incompletion procedure is the standard SAP way of making any sales order field mandatory. 

“Cancellation Date” field is located in the “Item Overview” tab of the sales order. 

Though standard SAP delivered sales order incompletion procedure has “Cancellation Date” as a field available, there is no screen available for the “Item Overview” screen.

You can validate this by checking all screens available in the standard incompletion procedure, under IMG Path – Sales and Distribution / Basic Functions / Log of Incomplete Items / Define Incompleteness Procedure.

Therefore, you will have to do an enhancement to achieve this. Let’s see how we can achieve this using an enhancement. Let's see how we can achieve this through an enhancement. 

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