Business area and Sales organisation

Can any 1 of u tell me the difference btw Business area and Sales organisation

Dear Venkata Krishnan
Business areas are primarily used to facilitate external segment reporting across company codes, covering the company's main areas of operation (product lines, branches).
You can assign all balance sheet items, such as fixed assets, receivables, payables, and material stock, as well as the entire P&L statement directly to business areas. You can only assign banks, equity, and taxes manually to business areas indirectly. For this reason, it is not possible to create the legally-required financial statements and tax reports at business area level. Financial statements at business area level are therefore only suitable for internal reporting.
Sales Organisation is an organizational unit subdividing an enterprise according to the requirements of Sales. It is responsible for selling materials and services.
A sales organization can be subdivided into several distribution chains which determine the responsibility for a distribution channel.
Several divisions can be assigned to a sales organization which is responsible for the materials or services provided.
A sales area determines the distribution channel used by a sales organization to sell a divisionu2019s products.
thanks
G. Lakshmipathi

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  • Difference between business area and sales area

    Hi
    I am swetha i have one doubt
    1) what is the buisiness area and what purpose we use the business area
    2)  what is sales area and what purpose we use the sales area
    3)what is the main Difference between business area and sales area.
    Regards
    Swetha

    Hii..
    Business Areas in SAP are used to differentiate transactions originating from different points/lines/locations in business. Let me give some examples to elucidiate:-
    A company (say, ABC) is a huge company and has a variety of businesses under it. Let us say that it typically operates in 3 different domains like machinery manufacturing, trading and assembling of machine parts.
    There are 2 options here now -
    1. Either create different company codes for the 3 business operations (which would be the easiest and require no creativity)
    or
    2.) Create each of these business lines into business areas (the better option).
    The advantages of using the second option is:
    1. You can use these business areas if other company codes require the same areas
    2. The configuration is simpler as in case of company code, you would require to go through the entire configuration of creating Chart of Accounts, Fiscal Year variants, posting periods variants and so on. In the business area option, you just need to attach it to the company code and the rest of the details in Business area is attached by default from the company code you are using it in.
    3. Using the options in controlling (EC-PCA, Enterprise Controlling, Profit Centre Accounting), you can even draw up Balance Sheets and PL statements for your business areas and hence this is used for management accounting in some companies (like HP, Dell, etc) when it wants to know the operating profits for different business areas/lines.
    The above was an example when the company wanted to separate entries according to the lines it operates in... the other case could be when it wants to find out profitability during its operations in cities and differentiates these cities into Business
    Areas...
    Business Areas are not much relevant in FI but are much more relevant in CO.
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    What is mySAP SD?
    The SAP sales and distribution is part of the logistics module that support your customers, starting from quotations, sales order and all the way towards billing the customer.  It is tightly integrated with the MM and PP functional modules.  It allows companies to input their customer sales price, check for open orders and forecast etc.
    The most important basic functional features in the sd module are:
    - Pricing                                           - Availability Check
    - Credit Management                       - Material Determination
    - Output Determination                     - Text Processing
    - Tax Determination                          - Account Determination
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  • Difference between Business area and profit center accounting

    Hi Frnds,
    Can any body explain about difference between business area and profit center accounting .

    Hi
    Business area will have many profit centers. For example Vehicle is a business area in a company. Vehicle can be cars and Bikes etc. Here Vehicle is business area and Cars and Bike are profit centers. In broad Vehicle is a profit center. But as it has sub areas those are profit centers. So profit centers cannot be replaced with business area and vice versa. We can replace business area by Profit centre, only condition is that it should be in same controlling area. The business area is more like a business unit of a company. You can have multiple profit centers within a business area.
    Main distinguish factor is that distribution and assessment in possible in profit center but not in business area.
    One more distinction is that Business area need not be attached to any organisation structure. But profit centres can be created only under the controlling area. Business area can be across controlling area.
    Business area concept is used for making stragic decisions by the management whereas the primary purpose of profit centre accounting is responsibility accounting.
    http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2005/helpdata/en/ff/277203deea11d3b5b4006094b9b0a5/frameset.htm

  • Business area and profit centre

    Friends,
    Please tell me difference between profit center and business areas. If reporting can be done using both of them in similar fashion, why can't only one of them be used, instead of using both of them?
    There should be a logical distinction between them, please explain that.
    Thanks,
    A

    Hi,
    1. Main distinguishing factor is that Distribution or assessment within profit center can be done for allocation of overheads.
    No such allocation functionality is possible within Business area.
    2. Hierarchical structure for profit center can be created.
    Hierarchical structure for business area is not possible.
    3. Business area does not need to be attached to any organization structure.
    But profit centers can be created under the controlling area.
    4. PCA helps to arrive at profitability of business unit
    Business area is used to segregate FI transactions pertaining to various
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    Business area would have been useful only when the Areas of Business are Different.
    6. Business area concept is used for making strategic decisions by the management whereas the primary purpose of profit center is accounting.
    7. PCA would be much more suitable. You may need some derivation rules for Populating Profit centers, but it would be much more easier than using Business area and reconciling FI-CO on monthly basis.
    8. The main difference between profit centers and business areas is that profit centers are used for internal management whereas business areas are geared more towards external purposes.
    9.  Business area satisfies accounting purpose while Profit Center  satisfies CO purpose.
    10.  Business area was used as function oriented (e.g. SALES, ACCOUNTING etc)
    as per old school where we used to separate B/S as per functionality. But Profit Center  is more related with group of products or COS (COGS) view.
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  • Handling Business Area for sales documents

    Hi Experts,
                   My requirement is that , I have to change the default Business area  , determined by the system , at the time of sales document creation . For Eg: I have two business areas 0001 and 0002.
    When i create a sales document , by default system determined business area 0001. But  if certain conditions are met , i have to change the business area to 0002. and finally when we post the document to the Accounting after billing , the document must hit the business area 0002.I could able to change the business area in the sales documents through the user-exits available for Delivery document and Billing document .But when i post the document into accounting , the entries are going into wrong business area . How to handle this situation.
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  • Why did not I got assignment of Business Area by sales Area

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    Can anybody please tell me,
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    IMG  -- Enterprise Structure  --  Assignment  --  Sales and Distribution  --  Business Area Account Assignment --  Assign Business Area by Sales Area.
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    HI,
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    2.Then maintain Consolidated business Area
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      Rule     002     Business area determination from sales area Table use (TVTA)
    Then u will find the data in Assign business Area by sales Area Screen & u can fill the business area there .
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  • Business area and its sample scenario / example.

    Hi SAP GURUS,  please suggest ASAP.
    scope of business area with any simple scenario or example which we will used

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    Dear Friend,
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