Customer Master

[Former Member]

Dear All,

In Customer Master, why SAP divided 3 tabs i.e. general data, company code data, sales area data

Regards

A.Satish Kumar

[Former Member]

Hi,

<b>General data:</b>

Name & address of the customer with contact details.

<b>Company Code data:</b>

Used for financial purposes for accounting purposes.

<b>Sales Aea Data:</b>

Used for selling the materials by the sales people, for creating the sales order, delivery and invoice.

<b>Following are the tables related with the respective data:.</b>

General data - KNA1

Company code data - KNB1

Sales Area data - KNVV

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Regards,

Allabaqsh G. Patil

[Former Member]

hi patil,

because in cmr is use full to manage the customers

in genereal data we give details of geneereal information like phone city address

in co code data we will maintain account details and like payment terms

in sales are data we will give sales information like sales group and perrcentage of tax shipping details and partner details

all these are use full to process the sales transactions

ir you retrive as per above data you can retrive using various tables like

general data from kna1

cocode data knb1

sales area data knvv

between this if you want to see the sales area details only u can use the t code for vd01

if you want see the co code details fd01

if you want to see the general data and sales are data & cocode data you can use the xd01

i think it give some information to your doubt

cheers

madhu

[Former Member]

Hi

Apart from Authorizations, there are other significances as well.

If you note, that certain fields in Customer Master Data are mandatory, while some are optional or displayed, and some are hidden. This Field selection comes from the settings of the Account Group ( refer t-code OVT0). There also you will find Gen data/ Com code data / Sales Area data.

Data maintained in General Data is common for all company codes and sales area --e.g Address etc

Company code data --> company code specific. Used for FI transaction and accounting purpose.

Sales area data --> used for SD transaction like sales order, Delivery, and invoice etc.

Thats why I suppose the different tabs are provided to keep and maintain data separately.

Also note that the data are stored in diff tables.

General data ---> KNA1

Company code data ---> KNB1

Sales Area data ---> KNVV

Thanks,

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[Former Member]

Hi Satish,

The 3 views are just for grouping of fields in a particular fashion.

The Company code data contains information which is relevant for a particular comany and maintained by the FI consultant, the Sales Area Data is for a particular Sales Area and maintained by a SD consultant while the general data is used across different modules.

In real time, a SD consultant would create a customer maintaining only general data and sales area data

Regards

Nadarajah Pratheb

[Former Member]

Hi Satish,

General Data is the one to maintain only the addr. part of the customer,

Company code data is the dat which is a link bet.SD and FI it is maintained by FI

and Sales area data is what really related to sales.

for ex in onetime customers u may be requiring only general data and not the other 2, for few customers who are repeated but not much u may not require to maintain company code data .

I hope this is clear

Regards

Mahesh

[Former Member]

Dear A. Satish Kumar,

Accounting Data/View is maintained by Accounting Department and Sales Data/View by Sales Department.

http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_02/helpdata/en/41/37b8e7455b11d182b40000e829fbfe/frameset.htm

You can restrict access to master records in order to prevent unauthorized changes from being made. Depending on how you organize your master data, you can assign authorizations for maintaining this data. For example, one user may have authorization to maintain all master data, while another may have authorization to maintain only accounting master data.

You can also assign different authorizations for different types of processing. All users could have authorization to display master records, while only a limited group of users may be able to create and change master data.

Authorizations are specified during system configuration and assigned to each user in his or her user master record. If you have any other questions on this subject, you should contact your system administrator. The Implementation Guide (IMG) for Financial Accounting explains how to set up authorizations.

Integration:

Customer master records are used by both the Financial Accounting (FI) component and the Sales and Distribution (SD) component. If your company also uses the SD application component, you can create and maintain customer master records either together or separately as follows:

• Separately for the company code

• Separately for the sales area (order processing, shipping, and billing information about the customer)

• Centrally for both the company code and sales area in one step

You need the Sales and Distribution (SD) application component in order to enter data in the sales area. There are three different ways of processing master records since they are often created and maintained by different departments. In some companies, accounting and sales personnel maintain the general area together and their own areas separately. In other companies, customer master records are maintained centrally.

Regards,

Naveen.