why are order reasons assigned to the cost centres and sales organizations

[Former Member]

Hello All,

What is the reason behind assigning the order reasons with sales area's and cost centre's in SAP.

I would like to understand the holistic concept of assigning an order source to the cost centre and sales area in OVF3.

thank you..in advance

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Order reason is assigned to sales area + cost center combination in OVF3 to map the costs incurred in the free issues normally. When we do a free issues sales, samples sales, promotional activities cost of sales has to be booked against some account {as we are not charging to our customers} and via OVF3 with the help of cost centres it gets captured.

And in case of free issues sales, samples sales, promotional activities we put the order reason inside the sales orders as that field is made as madatory at sales order level.

Hope this will clear your doubt about this.

Regards,

Hrishi

Edited by: Hrishikesh Bhalwankar on Mar 19, 2009 2:54 PM

[Lakshmipathi]

In addition to the points indicated already, if you want to capture costs incurred sale order wise, then this should be addressed with the combination of Order Reason and Cost Center which is maintained in OVF3.

thanks

G. Lakshmipathi