Customer master data.............

[Former Member]

hi,

Cananyone throw light on the importance of 3 views i.e (Company code data,general data and sales area data) in Customer Master data as to why these 3 views are maintained?

Pls reply.........

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi

<b> 1. General data</b>

This is data that applies to every sales organization in your company. The general area includes, for example, the customer's name, address, language, and telephone data.

<b> 2. Company code data</b>

This is data that is specific to an individual company code. Company code data includes, for example, the reconciliation account number, terms of payment, and dunning procedure.

<b> 3. Sales area data</b>

This is data relevant to the sales organizations and distribution channels of your company. Data that is stored in this area includes, for example, data on order processing, shipping, and billing.

In one company there are two company codes that do business with the same customer. The general data, such as the address, is stored in the general area. Both company codes use this data for communication with the customer. Each company code maintains specific data for financial accounting (such as the reconciliation account) and for their business relationship with the customer (such as terms of payment) in their own company code area.

The system provides separate functions for maintaining master records, depending on how you organize them. You can maintain master records centrally for all areas or separately for Financial Accounting and Sales and Distribution.

Integration

You need the Sales and Distribution (SD) application component in order to enter the sales data and print invoices.

[Former Member]

hi

Customer: A business partner with whom a business relationship exists, involving the issue of goods or services.

Customer master data is divided into three parts to control different activities

1. General data: controls general information like Address, control data, payment transactions, marketing, unloading points, export, and contact person.

2. Company Code data: controls accounting documents, correspondence, payment transactions and insurance.

3. Sales area data: controls data about sales, shipping, billing and partner functions.

[Former Member]

Hi

customer master is the master data for the dtails of the cusotmer with which the company is doing the business

in the customer master there are 3 different views

they are General data

Company code data

sales area data

GENERAL DATA:

general data refers to the data where the customer data like the name email fax telephone number country city street address of the custoem stores

general data will be stored in the table KNA1

COMPANY CODE:

company code referes to the data where the customer data like the reconcilliation acoont , payment history , terms of payment, and dunning procedures are stored

the values of the company code are stored in the table caled KNB!

SALES AREA DATA

sales area data like athe sales shipping and billing data is stores in the sales area data and the the output values for the documents and the partner functions for this cusstomer

the values of the sales area data are stored in the TAble KNVV

thanks

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SANTOSH

[Former Member]

Hi,

<b>General data:</b>

This data gives the general data like the address , contact person, contact details, etc Used by all.

<b>Company code data:</b>

This is used by the Finance people. Most important field here is "Reconciliation account" The outstanding amount for a particular customer is updated in this account.

<b>Sales Area Data:</b>

Used by the sales & distribution people. Contains data for "sales" "shipping" "billing" & "partner function"

<b>Sales:</b> sales group, sales office, pricing procedure, price list, price group, customer group

<b>Shipping:</b> shipping conditions, plant, order combination

<b>Billing:</b> Inidcator for local tax, credit control area, payment & inco terms, billing dates

<b>Partner functions:</b> What role is the particular customer supposed to play.

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Allabaqsh G. Patil

[Former Member]

HI Vinay

Both the accounting (FI-AR) and the sales (SD) departments of your organization use customer master records. By storing customer master data centrally, you enable it to be accessed throughout your organization, and avoid the need to enter the same information twice. You can also avoid inconsistencies in master data by maintaining it centrally. If the address of one of your customers changes, for example, you only have to enter this change once, and your accounting and sales departments will always have up-to-date information.

You have to implement the Sales and Distribution (SD) application component in order to enter and process customer master records for order processing, shipping, and billing

Features

Specifications you make in master records are used:

As default values when you post items to the account

For example, the terms of payment you specify in the master record are defaulted for document entry.

For processing business transactions

Account control data, such as the number of the G/L reconciliation account

For example, the dunning procedure, the date of the last dunning notice, and the address are required for the automatic dunning process.

For working with master records

You can prevent certain users from accessing an account by setting up authorization groups.

For communication with the customer

For example, the address and telephone and fax numbers.

For the sales department

Order processing, shipping, and billing data.

I hope now u can understand

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