Free of charge goods.

[Former Member]

Hi All,

I have a requirement with free of charge functionality.

It needs to be possible to assign free products retroactively for a certain time period and calculate the number of free products by the number of products ordered in the given period.

how do I achieve this?

Please reply

Nilesh

[Former Member]

hello, friend.

please note that you have:

1. free-of-charge order, which is a type of sales document to deliver materials without cost to the customer

2. free goods, to be given when the customer orders a certain quantity of materials

which of the above functionality are you more interested in?

for the first, it is a matter of defining an order type based of the free-of-charge order type. this order type normally is automatically blocked for control purposes and can be released by an authorized party. you can create this order with reference to another order (e.g. in case of replacement of defective or lost goods). the procedure of creating a free-of-charge order is the same as for the standard order, using t-code VA01. you then deliver/pick/post goods issue the same as for standard orders as well.

for the second functionality, you first need to activate free goods in IMG, then you can create free goods condition records, either exclusively or inclusively (e.g. buy 10 of Material A, you get 1 free Material A; or buy 5 Material B, get 1 free Material A; or buy 11 of Material A, 1 will be free and only 10 will be charged), by doing t-code VBN1. you specify whether the scheme is exclusive or inclusive, the free goods plan and the duration of the campaign.

regards.

p.s.

again, with the second functionality... if you create free goods condition records now, this will not affect sales orders already created and saved (free goods will not apply). so if you want to grant free goods retroactively, you either have to do free-of-charge delivery with reference to the previously created sales order, or you need to change the sales order by deleting the ordered item and re-entering it so that the free goods functionality will work (assuming that the order document date falls within validity period).

Edited by: jonathan yap on Oct 1, 2008 12:30 AM