reference division

[Former Member]

what is the imp of reference division ples explain

[Former Member]

hello, friend.

i think the others have explained the reference division pretty well. as added information...

having a reference division is very helpful when defining and assigning for

1. sales documents

2. customer master data

3. condition types (especially pricing)

if you have a reference division, you don't have to define and assign documents per division. if, let's say, you designated "01" as reference division for "05" and "06", then all documents assigned to "01" are also assigned to "05" and "06".

you also define common divisions (separately for customer master data and condition types). again, if you designate "01" as reference for "05" and "06", you need to create customer only in sales area XXXX/YY/01 and you will still be able to process sales of the customer in sales area XXXX/YY/05 and XXXX/YY/06.

hope this helped you.

regards.

[Former Member]

Should 0CUST_SALES in BI only have a record for a reference division or all divisions that can be used in sales? What is the standard?

[Former Member]

Hi,

Common Division/Reference division that master data should apply to the definition is valid within each sales organization.

Example

You can determine, for example, that the conditions which are valid in division "01" also apply to divisions "05" and "06".

Note

The common master data across various divisions refer to the conditions and the customer master data.

You thus minimize the effort of entering and managing master data.

In addition, you can extrapolate your own statistics per division without having to create master data in the different organizational subareas.

Action

For the divisions, define from which other division the master data should be copied.

Use

You can share sales document type data between different divisions. You define sales document types in a central division and then use it as a reference division. Each division to which you assign the reference can use the same sales document types defined in the reference division. The sales document types are maintained centrally in the reference division.

Procedure

If all sales document types are allowed for all divisions, leave the field blank. Otherwise, enter the division you want to use as a reference.

Example

Division Reference division

01 01

02 01

03 01

04 04

In this example, only divisions 01 and 04 have sales document types defined. Divisions 01, 02, and 03 share the sales document types defined for division 01. Division 04 has its own sales document types. When you create a sales order in division 03, the system checks the sales document type against the types defined for division 01. You do not maintain sales document types in divisions 02 and 03, since they are never used.

Please reward if it's of some help for you.

Manoj

[Former Member]

Common division

[Former Member]

Hi Suresh,

Do u mean Common Division.

Common Distribution Channel and Common Divison are maintained so that if any master data like customer or material maintained with respect to one distribution channel can be used in other DCh. It prevents the multiplication of master records.

Eg: A customer is created for say sales area 1000/20/00 then the same customer can be used in sales area 1000/30/00 if we maintain 20 as common distribution channel. Hence no need for extending the customers...the same for materials also.

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Praveen.D