Future of SAP SD w.r.t CRM

[Former Member]

Hello all,

I am new to this SAP SD area. I have 3 years marketing experience and recently got a job in SAP SD module based on my domain experience.

I want to know what is the future of this SD module in the next 3-4 years. I have been hearing that someday in the future CRM is going to replace SD. Is it so?

If , yes, then what will happen to SD functional module .

[Former Member]

Hi Rakesh, thanx for ur reply.

I come from the manufacturing domain in the vertical of Solar Industry. I was there as a Territory In Charge for 3 years.

You are talking of Business processes. But, in terms of Sales the business processes are generally very common to other verticals also.

so, what is that i should learn from these processes.

If you have any docs. of different business processes, can you share those with me.

My mail id: sourav_bhaumik@yahoo.com

thanx,

Sourav

[Former Member]

Dear Sourav,

Well I will agree with you upto an extent. To put my point forward these are some of the basic scenarios in sales.

Sales Order

Duplicate customer purchase order

Default First Date is not Today

Auto proposed all the dates when creating Sales Order

Define Material used at which Sales and Distri. Process

Assign a Cost Center manually in a SO (VBAK-KOSTL)

Transfer of Requirements

Define Tax Determination Rules

Taxation Explain with an example

Return material From customer

SAP SD: Scheduling Agreement Vs Contract

Sales BOM Implementation

How to Know that Sales BOM is working or not?

Sales Order Mass Change

Release strategy for Sales order

How to do rebate processing

Rebate Process with Ref. to SO

Consignment Sales Process in SAP

Issue free goods to selected Customers

Supressing Fields in Sale Order

Some Light on Batch Determination

Diff. between Item Proposal and Material Determination

Steps for SD Variant Configuration

Process Flow for 3rd Party Sales

Number Ranges In Sales Order

What is Debit note and Credit note

Configure Intercompany Stock Transport Order

CIN

SAP SD CIN Configuration

Customer

Customizing Customer Hierarchy in SD

Availability Check

Availability Check on Quotation

SD material Determination based on availability check

Creating Multiple Materials in Material Determination

Backward and Forward Scheduling

Account Payable

Settlement Downpayment with Installment payment Term

Customized SD ABAP Reports

Upload Condition Pricing

Sales Order Changed History Display

HUM

Basic Process of how Packing Works

The "Packing Process" with an Example

Pricing

Difference between Condition Type

Accumulate the amt of cond. types in accting document

Hiding Price Condition Types on a Sales Document

Creating New Pricing Procedure

What is alt cal type & alt base value & Req field in Pricing

Re-pricing in a Quotation

Quantity Based Discounts in Bulk Quantities Sales

Determine sales price with shipping point

Pricing date based on Deliv. date, Sales Ord, Billing

Report to Check the Entered Pricing Condition Price

Mass Update of condition pricing

Material Master Price as Sales Price Automatically

Customer discounts on effort only

Steps to Create Commission for Agent

SD Questions About Pricing Condition

Add a Field To New Condition Table in Pricing

Header Condition and Group Condition

Billing

Billing cannot be Release to Accounting

Default Start Variant for VF04

Cond. Exclusion will be determined in the billing doc.

Steps creating new or changing existing Billing Doc Typ

Billing Block will not worked if you did not assign it

Billing Plan for Milestone Billing

Combine Billing for deliveries with different date

Billing Spilt by Item Category

Max. No. of items in FI reached Msg no. F5 727

Prepaid process possible

Restricting Number Of Items In Billing Doc

Credit Management

How To Do Configuration For Credit Management

MRP block for Credit limit attained Customers

Credit Mgmt Dynamic checking

Sales value field not getting updated after creating billing

Diff Between Simple and Automatic Credit Check Types

Set Up for Credit Card Payment Processing

Dunning Process In Credit Management

Product Allocation

Implement the Product Allocation Functionality

Output/Email

Sending a billing document by e-mail

Customizing picking output

Program for Sales Order by Customer, Date, Sales

Once you have mastered this there is an expertise which is learning the integration part with FI, MM, PP. Once you have learnt this you can jump to basic techniques of ABAP.

So in a nutshell what I want to say is that these are some of the scenarios as a SAP SD consultant you need to work on ( trust me it takes couple of years to be comfortable with all the topics and then you realize learning never stops).

Do let me know in case of any queries.

Hope this helps you.

Do award points if you found them useful.

Regards,

Rakesh

[Former Member]

Dear Sourav,

Well I can understand your situation. This is a typical situation which lot of people face when they start working in the base modules like SD. MM, PP, ABAP etc. I feel the knowledge gain by working in this module cannot go waste. I mean broadly speaking you learn the sales aspects of business process of different verticals. Moreover all the companies who implemented SD module ( trust me there are tons of them) will always require you. So the best option is to gain as much business process knowledge as possible in different verticals.

Do let me know in case of any queries.

Hope this helps you.

Do award points if you found them useful.

Regards,

Rakesh