sales order release strategy

[Former Member]

hello everybody.

marketing person prepares the sales order and he enters some discount in the pricing procedure. the requirement is that a higher level person will first check if the discounting and other terms & conditions have been maintained correctly. then he/she will release the sales order & the system should run the MRP.

is there any release provision available in SAP that will not allow the marketing person to create the sales order but the order will be saved by some other higher authority? The marketing person should not be able to save the sales order even if he/she tries to do.

please give me the solution step by step if it is a long procedure.

[Former Member]

hi,

In a condition record, you can define upper and lower limits to restrict manual changes in the sales document during pricing.

Procedure

To specify limits:

On the overview screen of the condition record, select the appropriate condition record and then choose Goto ® Details.The details screen for the condition record is displayed. Here you can maintain the Upper limit and Lower limit fields as required.

If, during manual processing, you exceed or drop below a defined limit, the system informs you with an error message.

" is there any release provision available in SAP that will not allow the marketing person to create the sales order but the order will be saved by some other higher authority ". not sure if i understood this perfectly. Anyway, dont give the marketing person access to VA01 t.code.

as an alternative, put a credit limit check for all the orders that it goes to a delivery block. let the sales order be saved. no issue. but put a user exit that unless the credit block is released by VKM3 no schedule line is permitted. And VKM3 release provision you give it only to higher level person.

hope it helps.

Thanks

Sadhu Kishore

[Former Member]

There are two ways to control this.

option 1: Using customer expected price. If the price is exceeded the limit then it will automatically goes into incomplete and there is standard report to release the such orders.

Option 2: You can use the status profile and configure the user status and using the authorization keys you can control the releasing by the higher officials.

Regards,

Upendra

[Former Member]

hi,

this is quiet common in all companies, once the sale order is saved it goes and sits in the higher authority, where he will go through all the modalities and release the order...by going to va02..then only it goes to delivery due list... you have to do block the order...

If anything wrong pls clarify..

Ramki