Sales and Distribution with SAP

Matt Chudy is an independent SAP Logistics consulting lead. He has more than 12 years of experience in SD, MM, and Logistics, spanning project administration, design, gap-analysis,testing, implementation, and supporting and training. He has been a strong team leader and covered several SAP project lifecycles. His specialties include Logistics ExecutionSystem, Transportation Management, Sales and Distribution, Inventory and Warehouse Management, Materials Management,and Production Planning. He currently lives in thegreater Chicago area. Luis Castedo is an independent systems and business consultant with more than 20 years of experience. For the past 15 years, he has been focused on SAP implementations. He has experience working with Fortune 500 companies andon multisite projects. He is a certified SAP MM consultant,and his specialties include Sales and Distribution, Materials Management, Inventory and Warehouse Management, Shipping,and Transportation. He currently lives in the Mexico City area.

PART 1
Master Data
Customizing the Fields in Customer Master Screens
Understanding Cross-Company Sales
Changing Customer Master Data en Masse
Changing the Account Group for a Customer
Blocking or Unblocking a Customer Account
Troubleshooting Missing Sales Areas for Customers
Checking for Incomplete Customer Master Data
Extending the Material Storage Location View
Extending the Material Master Views
Blocking Sales Orders for Obsolete Materials
Maintaining Serial Number Records
Maintaining Pricing Data with a Single Transaction
PART 2
Sales Support
Assigning Sales Activities to Users
Finding Duplicate Sales Activities with the Crossmatching Report
Listing Valid Sales Deals by Date
Listing Active Promotions in the System by Sales Area
Tracking Item Proposals
Listing Competitive Products in a Product Hierarchy
PART 3
Sales
Adjusting the Layout of Your Order Entry Screen
Processing Incomplete Sales Documents
Executing a Sales Order Quick Change
Processing Backorder SD Documents to Manage Customer Priority
Processing Backorders: Changing Committed Quantities
Running a Backorder Report for Financial Impact Summary
Automating Material Reallocation and Rescheduling Based on Delivery Priority Settings
Evaluating a Rescheduling Job
Processing Sales Documents That Are Blocked for Delivery
Removing the Billing Block from Sales Documents
Eliminating Duplicate Sales Documents
Including Kits in Sales Orders
Updating a List of Sales Orders en Masse
Generating Dynamic Product Proposals for Customers
Checking Material Availability Before Creating a Sales Order
Reviewing Expiring Open Quotations
Generating a List of Expiring Contracts
Generating Companion Sales Analysis for Future Orders
Preparing Data for INTRASTAT Declaration
Creating a Paper Version of Your INTRASTAT Report
Changing a Customer's Open Order Currency
Changing the Master Currency for Several Customers en Masse
PART 4
Shipping
Creating and Scheduling the Delivery Due List as a Background Job
Creating a Delivery Group for Better Delivery Processes
Adding Additional Search Fields in the Outbound Delivery Monitor
Creating a Transfer Order for a Group of Deliveries
Creating a Picking Wave According to Delivery Time
Working with the Picking Wave Monitor
Troubleshooting Wave Pick Issues with the Use of Logs
Listing Transfer Orders by Wave Pick
Moving Unfinished Deliveries to a Different Picking Wave
Changing or Deleting a Delivery Group
Listing Incomplete Outbound Deliveries
Displaying Changes to a Delivery
Automatically Replenishing Fixed Bins in the Warehouse
Replenishing Materials Based On Outbound Deliveries
Replenishing Warehouse Materials with the Random Storage Method
Cancelling Picking for Outbound Delivery and Returning Materials to Stock
Maintaining Pick Handling Unit Assignment
Displaying Pick Handling Unit Assignments
Using the Packing Station for Deliveries
Splitting Outbound Deliveries to Manage Logistics
Processing Collective Goods Issue via the Outbound Delivery Monitor
Cancelling or Reversing Outbound Deliveries after Goods Issue
Processing Deliveries Using the Warehouse Activity Monitor
PART 5
Transportation
Running a Transportation Planning List and Applying Mass Changes
Automating the Creation of Shipments
Running Collective Processing of Shipments in the Background
Reviewing Transportation Job Logs for Collective Shipment Processing
Printing Shipping Documents with a Mass-Output Procedure
Collectively Processing Shipment Cost Documents
Creating Shipment Cost Documents in the Background
Reviewing and Transferring Shipment Costs to Financial Accounting with a Single Report
Reviewing and Analyzing Shipment Cost Job Logs
Maintaining New and Existing Route Data
PART 6
Billing
Processing Multiple Deliveries in a Billing Due List
Cancelling Multiple Billing Documents
Collectively Releasing Billing Documents to Accounting
Creating a List of Billing Documents
Making a Document Relevant for Billing by Finding the Configuration Error
Manually Posting CO-PA Documents if Automated Posting Fails
Cancelling CO-PA Line Items
Reviewing Invoice Lists en Masse
Reviewing a Collective Run Log for Invoice List Jobs
PART 7
Credit Management
Releasing Blocked SD Documents to Process Sales Orders
Displaying a List of Released SD Documents
Releasing Individual or Grouped Blocked Sales Documents
Using Credit Release to Immediately Process Deliveries and Sales Orders
Listing Customer Balances to Review Credit Standings
Quickly Displaying the Details of Customer Balances
Changing Customer Credit Master Data
Running the Credit Overview to Create a Tracking List
Displaying Changes to Credit Management Master Data
Creating a Credit Master Sheet for a Customer Credit Review
PART 8
Sales Information System
Using the Credit Master Sheet to Discover Customer Credit Information
Displaying the Sales Price List
Analyzing Sales Volumes with the Sales Information System
Monitoring Blocked Sales Orders
PART 9
Other Tools
Building Reports Using QuickViewer
Browsing Sales Tables with Transaction SE16N
Accessing IDoc Documentation
Using SAP Mail/Inbox for Monitoring System Events and IDoc Failures
Tables and Quick References
Additional Resources
The Authors
Index