Controling Sales Document

Question

Hai Experts,
                   Can u plz let me know in wat ways Sales document type, schedule line category and item category controls the sales documents. Its given tat these 3 wil control sales document but in wat way its helpful to control these documents? Plz give me some examples. Thanking you.
Regards,
J. SriramChakravarthy.
Edited by: sri ram on Mar 12, 2009 6:40 AM

Answer 1

Hi sri ram,
Sales document type, item type and item category
The sales document type, item type and item category define the way in which advertising sales are replicated and controlled in the system.
The sales document type is specified during sales document creation.
The item type and category are specified during document item creation. Active item types for sales document processing are defined in Customizing.
Document items of various item types or categories can be created in a sales document.
The item types are defined in the system.
Admissible item categories for each sales document type have been defined in Customizing.
Activity
Menu path
Assign item categories to sales document types
SAP Media --->Advertising Management --->Sales -
>Order --->Sales Document -
>Sales Document Item -
>Assign Item Category to Sales Document Type
If you assign the standard item and full and partial credit memo item categories to a sales document type, you can replicate associated business transactions in a single sales document by creating order and credit memo items in this document.
See also: Item Category
Create document flows
The sales document type, item category and copying variant control document flow.
To define document flow, specify the copying variants to be used to create follow-on documents and/or follow-on items for each sales document type and item category. Copying variants define the sales document type and item category in follow-on documents and/or follow-on items, such as those for credit memos or those used to convert offers to orders.
Create credit memo items
This function copies selected data from a template item within a sales document. You want to copy all schedule line data for a complaint into a new document item. The copying variant indicates that the item category for the new item is a credit memo.
Unlike a document item copy with reference to a document item, the system retains manual changes to the schedule line, such as manual surcharges or discounts, ad spec assignments or quantity changes for a document item copy with reference to a schedule line if you have defined the schedule line copying variant accordingly.
Thanks,
Swamy H P