CUSTOMER MASTER DATA IN SAP

Sales area data:

sales area data consist of four tabs

                        A. Sales tab

                        B. Shipping tab

                        C. Billing tab

                        D. Partner function tab

A. Sales tab:

    

Sales district:

    Sales district is farther classification of sales office It is referred to as customer districts, can be geographical areas or regions

Sales office :

       Mention your Sales office.

Sales group: 

       Mention your Sales group.

Customer group: 

       Grouping of customer who will share the same attributes. system identifies a particular group of customers

Currency:

       We mention customer currency in this field. the system propose this value by default from sales organization

Switch off rounding:

       It indicates whether rounding should be switch of for the customer. if we check this system will not convert the decimal in to nearest value

Order probability: 

        This field Specifies after placing order by the customer what is the chance that customer may cancel the order or decrease the quantity.

Authorization group:

         When ever we are giving access to customer to check his report in SAP. we need to give authorization to each $ every customer authorization will be given by basis consultant.

Item proposal :

           If customer are frequently placing order for similar material every time then we list out all the material in to a document and call that document while creating sales order select the item and copy

Exchange rate type:

            If company is having agreement with the customer for a specific rate which should valid for a month

Price group:

         Group of customer who will share the same price attributes

Customer pricing procedure:

       This field is one of the parameter to determine pricing procedure in to sales document

Price list:

      The price of the product is not common for all the customers. every company will prepare multiple price list basing on the requirement.

Customer Statistic group:

         This field control weather to update customer sales data in to LIS or not

Shipping tab:

Delivery priority:

    You define delivery priorities in this menu option. You can use them to control the delivery of sales orders or order items and therefore give priority to individual customers.n the standard SAP R/3 System, number 1 represents the highest delivery priority. During the selection, delivery items with priority 1 are proposed first.

the purpose of this field is to perform back order process rescheduling 

Order combination:

       If you check this stem will allow to combine multiple orders in to single delivery

Shipping condition:

     This field is one of the parameter to determine shipping point in to sales document line item 

Delivering plant:

       If we mention delivery plant here it automatically determines in to sales document line item

Relevant for POD:

      Proof of delivery is the confirmation sent by the Ship to party upon the reciept of goods. Once you configure the POD in your system, means it wont let you

POD time frame:

       If we mention no of days here and if the acknowledgement has not been received from customer with in those days then system by default think that acknowledgment has been received and will to create invoice

Complete delivery by law:

       If you check this system will not allow to create partial delivery system will not confirm partial quantity

Partial delivery per item:

      This field control whether to allow partial delivery or not it also control how many partial delivery to be allowed

Unlimited tolerance:

      If you check this system will allow to increase or decrees the quantity in delivery document with out any limitation

Billing Document tab:

Rebate;

   Rebate is a prerequisite to process rebate for a particular customer

Price determination:

    This field is applicable only for customer hierarchy

Invoicing dates:

    If customer requirement is invoice should be raise only on month end for all the dispatches made during the month then we use invoicing dates.

Incoterms:

    This is an agreement between shipper and receiver for successful completion of delivery 

Terms of payments:

    Its an agreement between company and customer for the no of days given to make the payment  

Payment guaranty procedure:

     We use this field for export customer 

Credit control area:

    It is an organizational unit which is responsible for all the credit activity happen in the company

Account assignment group:

    This field is one of the parameter to determine G/L account while posting the invoice  value in to accounting

Tax classification:

     This field control when the customer is laible for tax or not

Partner functions:

Sold to party:Who place the order

Ship to party: Who receiving goods

Bill to party: Who will receive bill

Payer: Who will make the payment