Sales Master Data

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Sales master data card

• Customer = business partner: general data, FI customer (company code), customer (sales area).
• Sales area tabs: Orders (pricing), Shipping (plant, conditions), Billing (terms, incoterms, account assignment, tax), Partners.
• Partners: sold-to orders, ship-to receives, bill-to gets the invoice, payer pays.
• Product sales views: sales organization data (plant, item category group, tax, account assignment) and sales plant data (availability check, loading group).
• Item category group plus document type decides the item category.
• Customer-material info (VD51/VD52/VD53): customer number, description, plant, delivery settings.
• Plant priority: customer-material info, then customer, then product.
• Probe orders: write expected defaults, create, compare, record, reject.
• Bulk checks after every load: counts, mandatory fields, impossible combinations.