Sales & Distribution
What is Sales Order (SO)?
An SD document recording a customer's request for goods or services with quantities, prices, and dates.
Sales orders trigger availability checks, credit checks, pricing, and requirements for MRP. They are created via VA01 or the Fiori Manage Sales Orders app. Order type controls subsequent delivery and billing behavior.
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Order to Cash
The end-to-end sales process from customer order through delivery, billing, and cash application.
Available-to-Promise
A check that determines whether and when a requested quantity can be confirmed to a customer.
Pricing Procedure
An ordered set of condition types and subtotals that calculates prices, discounts, surcharges, and taxes for a document.
Outbound Delivery
A shipping document that triggers picking, packing, and goods issue for goods leaving a plant.
Item Category
A key that controls the behavior of a sales document item, such as pricing, delivery relevance, and billing.
Document Flow
The linked chain of predecessor and successor documents for a business transaction, such as order, delivery, and invoice.
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