CUSTOMER MASTER DATA IN SAP

            The customer master record is the basis for all sales transactions as well as deliveries and payments. Customers master records can represent different entities based on the role they play in the transaction. Customer master data ia a collection of records related to a customer, sales area, and other transaction related units. The data related to all the customers, including intercompany customers and one-time customers, must be stored in customer master record

 The structure of master data in the customer master record is comprised of these three areas:

(A)  General data

(B)  Company code data

(C)  Sales area data

(A)             General data:

General data represents a set of data independent of any organizational units of the SAP system. It contains data related to address, control, payment transactions, marketing, uploading points, exports, and contact persons. This data is only identified by the customer number, and is not specific to the company code or sales area. Maintaining the data is possible from both the company code view and the sales and distribution view.

(B)             Company code data :

It represents a set of the data used by the accounting department of an organization. It consists of the data related to account management , payment transaction correspondence, and insurance. This data is mostly of interest to the accounting department. It includes, for eg, information on the reconciliation account and dunning procedures and withholding tax. This data applies to only one company code.                      

(c) Sales area data:

            It Represent a set of data related to the SD module of the SAP system. It consists of data related to orders, shipping billing, and partner functions. This data is only interest for the sales and distribution area. It includes, for example, data on pricing or shipping. This data only applies to one sales area, and therefore is dependent on the sales structure.

T-code to create Customer master

XD01 - Create Customer (Centrally)   

XD02 - Change Customer (Centrally) 

XD03 - Display Customer (Centrally) 

VD01 - Create Customer (Sales) 

 FD01 - Create Customer (Accounting)

Path

·         SAP Easy access

·         Logistics

·         Sales and Distribution

·         Master data

·         Business partner

·         Customer

·         Create

Mention require details

Account Group:

This is where you select whether your customer is a sold-to party, ship-to party, bill-to or any other type of partner that may exist in your system.

Company Code

Sales Organization

Distribution Channel

Division

Then click on Enter

Now I am going to explain fields In Customer Master

General data:

Address tab : 

          It consist of the personal information of the customer Eg. Name Phno, and Email Id Etc. in the general data section Transportation zone in Sales and Distribution it represents regional zone of goods recipient.  

Control data tab :

          It consist of the tax information of the customer. this tab will be taken care by FI- consultant

Payment transaction:

           It consist of the customer mode of payment details 

Marketing tab:

          it consist of Nelsen id, customer classification, industry sector, industry code, regional code regional marketing, key figures

Unloading Point:

          It is a place where we unload the goods at customer location. some customers will have multiple unloading points. we need to maintain  the data of all which will help to plan the dispatch.

Export data: 

We use this tab the customer is located in outside country

Contact person:

      Contact person is the Employee of the customer , whom we meet for various activities .

Company code data:

 Click company code data on the application tool bar

   account management tab

       reconciliation account:

                 When we create invoice the back ground system will post the accounting entry the accounting entry is customer account debit to revenue account credit. from the customer account system fix G/L account for reconciliation account 

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