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While creating a sales order, there are many fields defaulted from Master Data at both Header and items  ( such as incoterms,  payment terms, Plant ,  Availability check Customer Material Number) and few fields determined from Configuration such as Item Category determination Pricing procedure Shipping point and so on... It is not necessary to have all the master Data fields to be populated to sales order. We can control the layout of Sales order , so few fields which are not necessary to get populated can be ignored from appearing on Sales order In the sales order -Item, we can check how this can be controlled Let us assume, that i dont want to show CUSTOMER MATERIAL NUMBER at line item level on Sales order For this, Click on  Table Configuration at Item level --Administration level, choose CUSTOMER MATERIAL field and select the indicator as INVISIBLE Save it and when you create a sales order further, Customer material number field will ...

MATERIAL DETERMINATION Material Determination is a method in SAP SD to determine the material to be used in Sales order. Material determination uses the condition technique to substitute one material in the sales order for another when certain conditions are met. Material determination is triggered by the material entered in the line item of the sales order. This material may be used to automatically exchange one of the business products for another during certain periods – for example, Christmas time – using a specially wrapped product . Or it may be used to exchange a customer-specific part number for one the business part numbers. Material determination may also use a dialog box with a number of products that the user may select from. An introduction to the condition technique Material determination is also useful for substituting an old product that is to become obsolete or a new product that is to be released by organization at a specific date. Materi...

Refurbishment A refurbishment order is a standard Maintenance Order type. In customizing for order, we first create an order type ( such as PM04) In the configuration we have to create a new order type in OIOA and activate this for Refurbishment process. Process flow: Business process steps 1. Damaged equipment/ spares if can be repaired will be done by the PM order of type PM04 2. Equipment/Spares needs repairing should have the item code if it is serialized item then with the serial number. 3. Item should have the valuation type for repair category too. 4. Create PR through refurbishment order for repair of the item with split valuation type of repair. Proper G/L codes and order for the repair indent should be provided in the indent 5. After approval of the requisition, the requisition and item should be send to the stores/Purchase section for further actions. 6. Stock will get updated after MIGO of the item 7. The activity type cost ...

When we Create a Sales Order, we know Availability and Transfer of Requirements are carried out based on Availability check Configuration. in this Article, we will understand how a Collective requirement and Individual Requirements are handled for Sales Order and how is it Changed in S4HANA In the Configuration OVZ2, we can choose the option of Individual or Daily ( Collective Records) Let's check how system behaves for 01 and 02 for this scenarios, i will take two materials M-16 -- Which is set as Individual Requirement 1289 -- Which is set for Daily requirements I will two Sales order of 100 and 120 Quantity for 1289 respectively Sales Order- 100 Quantity Sales order -120 Quantity for Same material 1289 As this material is set as Collective requirements, at the end of the day, the total records were available in VBBS table here, VBBS is updated only when the Availability check is COLLECTIVE REQUIREMENT L et us run the same kind of t...