Item Proposal

[Former Member]

Dear all,

I wanna know what is the use of item proposal field in customer master,although i put a (MS) document number in it; i still don't get it automatocally when i create sales order for the customer!!

Thanks

[former_member550050 · Accepted solution]

Hi

The system will not pick up product proposal for any customer automatically

You have to choose manually in the sales order creation by Going to EDIT in menu bar ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONS ---PROPOSE ITEMS or crtl+F11 in the item over view screen

Product Proposal is a sales order type which is MS order type in STD SAP inVOV8

This will have sales doc category D

No ranges assigned to it

Doc pricing procedure c

No del type

No billining type

Pls assign this doc first in the sales areas in which you want to use in t code OVAZ

Then create a product proposl in which you want the materials to be added with quantities in VA51 with this order type MS

This will generate a doc no

This doc no you assign in your customer master records in sales area data sales tab in item proposal field

Now when you create sales order for this customer in VA01 after inputting SP before entering materials

Go to EDIT in menu bar ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONS ---PROPOSE ITEMS or crtl+F11

Then this dialogue box with this proposal no will appear

Copy then it will copy all the items that you have listed in the proposal

In short the product proposal is a tool provided by SAP if a particular customer buys regularly a particular set of products everytime when we prepare a sales order we need not enter the products manually.It can be automatically called for by creating a product proposal order with order type MS and assigning the proposal no in his master record

Regards

Raja

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thank you Raja,

The help text "Item proposal

Identifies the product proposal that the system automatically suggests when you process sales orders for this customer" made me think the system can copy it directly to the order.

I'm thinking about this as a way to restrict a certain customer to only some materials.

Edited by: Mostafa Ali on Jan 2, 2009 9:53 PM

[former_member550050 · Accepted solution]

Hi Mostafa

If there are 10 materials and every time a customer orders regularly 6 materials of the 10 ,then product proposal is the best choice

This means whenever that customer order comes with that product proposal you can copy those 6 materials instead of enterring manually and this makes life easy for user

If there are 10 materials then if you are sure that a certain customer will not buy 4 materials out of them at all then you can use listing and exclusion functionality

This means that system will not allow you to make mistake of entering the material which is not listed for him or excluded for him

Product proposal and Listing and exclusion in a broader sense solve the same purpose but with a difference

In our example apart from the proposed products you can add another product also in the sales order Or you can ignore completely the product proposal in that order and put entireley a new set of products

In listing and exclusion you cant add a product in sales order that is not listed or you cant put a sales order that is excluded as these are controlled by condition records

So according to business requirement you have to carefully choose

product proposal t code VA51

Listing and exclusion t code VB01

Regards

Raja

[Former Member]

Hi Ali,

An item proposal is a list of materials and order quantities that can be copied into the sales order. Items can also be selected from a list and copied into a sales order."

1) Use transaction (VOV8) to configure the document type ("MS" for product proposal).

2) Use transaction (VA51) to create a proposal.

3) Enter the item proposal on the sales area data (sales tab) of the customer master record.

4) In (VA01) to create a sales order, Select Edit & propose items."

Regards

Nagendra P Boggarapu

[Former Member]

Hi,

Concerning the use of Item proposal, here the SAP standard document definimtion

An item proposal

If a customer frequently orders the same combination of materials, or if you recommend a

particular selection of products for an opening order, you can store the frequently used data as

an item proposal in the system. If you wish, the item proposal may also include proposed order

quantities. During sales order processing, you can then copy all or some of the materials and

quantity data from the item proposal directly into your document (sales order, quotation, and so

on). In addition, you can assign a particular item proposal to one or more specific customer

master records. The system can then automatically propose the number of the assigned item

proposal whenever you process sales orders for the relevant customers.