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February 02, 2018

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lant Determination in Sales Order
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1st Preference: System fetches Delivering plant from Customer Material Info
Record if Plant is not found at this level then system will look into

2nd Preference:  Delivering plant from Customer Master data if Plant is not

found at this level then system will look into

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3rd Preference: the Delivering plant for Material Master data

If business user overwrites Plant at sales document level then this will be given

highest preference.

Shipping Point Determination

Delivering Plant (Based on above conditions) + Shipping Conditions ( Sales

Document Type or  Customer Master Data) + Loading Group ( Material Master )

Storage Location Determination

Plant + Shipping Point + Storage Conditions ( Material Master )  ( MALA)

Plant + Shipping Point + Situation  ( RETA)

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Route Determination

Departure Zone or Country of the Delivering Plant + Destination Zone or

Country of the Ship to Party + Shipping Condition from the Customer Master +

Transportation Group from the Material Master

Route Determination with weight group (Can be used only in Delivery)

Pricing Procedure Determination in Sales Documents

Pricing Procedure is determined based on the combination of Sales

Organisation + Distribution Channel + Division + Customer Pricing Procedure +

Document Pricing Procedure

Partner Functions Determination in Customer Master

1. Create Partner Determination procedure in T.Code VOPAN

2. Assign Partner Functions to Partner Determination Procedure

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3. Assign Account Group to Partner Determination Procedure

4. Assign Partner Functions to Account Group

Sales Document Type Determination

It is determined based on the combination of Combine Sales Organisation +

Combine Distribution Channel + Combine Division

Item Category Determination

Item Category is determined based on Sales Document type + Item Category

Group + Item Usage + Higher Level Item Category

Free Goods Determination

Free goods determination procedure is determined based on the combination

of Sales Organisation + Distribution Channel + Division + Customer Pricing

Procedure + Document Pricing Procedure

Material Listing and Exclusion Determination

To activate Material listing and Exclusion procedure, We are required to assign

Material Listing and Exclusion procedure to Sales Document Type.

Material Determination Determination

To activate Material determination, We are required to assign Material

Cross Selling Procedure Determination

To activate Cross Selling Procedure, We are required to assign cross-selling

procedure to Sales document type

Credit Control Area Determination

Below are the four ways of deriving a credit control area:

1. Company code

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2. Sales area (sales organization, distribution channel, division)

The sales areas can be assigned to a credit control area in Customizing

Structure Assignment Sales and Distribution Assign sales area to credit control

area).

3. Customer master (payer’s sales area segment)

4. User exit EXIT_SAPFV45K_001

We can use this user exit to derive the credit control area from all the fields in

the sales order header.

Transportation Pricing Procedure Determination ( TPPD)

TPPD is determined based on the combination of  Item category procedure

GST Tax Determination

Country/ Delivering Plant Region/TaxCl1Cust/TaxCl.Mat/Region/Ctrl

PlntRegion/Region/TaxCl1Cust/Material
PlntRegion/Region/TaxCl1Cust/Activity

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