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Difference between business process, sales process and order process

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what is the difference between business process, sales process and order process?

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Dear Gopala,

business process is a general definition of the process which you have:

for example, you get an order, you have no goods, but you can produce them, you start an assambly processing, the production order will be created, then the goods will be prepatred, then the delivery will be created, the goods issue booked then your customer gets thwe goods and send the delivery confirmation, you create an invoice etc.etc.

sales process is a part of a business process.

Sales process shows how you sell the goods, there are different sales document categories to do this: sales orders, contracts, scheduling agreements etc.

order process is only one of possibilities of the sales process.

Order process is used if you get really a one-time (or at lease not on a regular basis many times) the simple orders where your customer says what goods he would like to receive and when. Then you create a sales order (in dialog transaction VA01) and can create a delivery. There are different types of sales orders in the standard. The customizing of sales order types is available under the transaction VOV8.

I hope, this info help you a little bit further to understand SD design.

Kind regards,

Akmal Vakhidov

Development Support SD, SAP

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order process is a part of sales process and sales process is part of business process...

business process is complete business process like it covers SD, PP, MM, FI etc.

Sales process is covers sales of the company,

Order process is like sale order, cr.memo request, debit memo, etc...

if it helps reward, if any thing wrong pls correct...

Ramki