creation of sales area views per customer

[Former Member]

Hello Folks,

If you have 3 sales organizations, 2 divisions, and 2 distribution channels and you want to use each of the divisions and distribution channels, how many sales area views need to be created for a customer? and why so?

Can you use common master data in this case?

regards

Ravi

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Yes you can use common division.

You should create 3sales org + 2 Dbr + 1 division. ie. By using common division, you have to create 6 sales areas. This will minimise the sales areas which inturn will reduce master data maintenance...

Hope this helps...

Regards,

Mukund S

[former_member1190345]

Hi Ravi,

Please try to understand the logic behind Common Distribution Channels and Common Divisions:

Consider that you have a customer A1000 which you have created for Sales Org 1000 + DC 10 + Division 10.Consider that In your Enterprise Structure you have one more Div - 20 and it is also being sold to A1000 . Now all you have to do is to maintain Div 10 as a reference Div for Div 20. After maintaining this setting when you try to create a Sales Order for a material for customer A1000 using Sales Org 1000 + DC 20 + Division 10 the system will automatically take the master data that has been maintained for Sales Org 1000 + DC 10 + Division 10. Hence Div 10 will become the reference for Div 20.

This helps in reducing the creation of repeated Master Data ( in this case Customer Master data) by using one Div as reference for all other Divisions.

The same logic will work during the creation of Material Masters where you have to maintain one DC as the reference for all other DC's.

So this means that if some master data changes when one of the organizational level changes ( Sales org or DC or Div) then you will have to extend the Customer Master but if the Master data remains the same then you can use the Common Div. functionality.

Thanks and Regards,

J Nagesh

[Former Member]

Hi Ravi,

the number of sales area possible would be 6 sales area,

yes you can of course use the common master data functionality

After creating the organizational structure and relevant master records you want to use as the masters, that is, in the distribution channels and divisions you are going to use as a reference, you can group distribution channels and divisions separately for master data (which combines customer master and material master records), group condition records, or both master data and condition records.

Letu2019s say you have a product range that is not different for the four different distribution channels you have (the channels could be telesales, retail, industry, and wholesale.) Neither is there a difference in the customersu2019 details when they purchase through one or the other. Thus, you will not want to create a multiple of four views of customer master and material master records. Merely create the customer master records and material master records in one of the distribution channels, such as retail. Then assign the other distribution channels you created in the organizational structure setup to this one.

Donu2019t forget this means you can only create or change master data in the distribution channel that is being referenced. In the scenario above, this means you can only change data for the retail distribution channel. Even if you should access a customer or material master in change mode, press F4 (possible entries), and select telesales, industry, or wholesale, you will receive a message u201CSales area is not defined . . . u201D

The same is true for the sharing of conditions. If conditions are shared, you need only create a condition in the distribution channel or division you are using as the reference. Obviously, this only pertains to conditions that have the distribution channel and/or division in their key, such as a price based on sales area

Revert if helpful

Mohit Singh