Eliminate duplication of articles in SO.

Hai Guys,
Just hope that most of you might have come across this scenario.
The salesman creates an SO, in which as item no. 1, he enters the item 'A' for 10 qty. He then enters other articles, say 10 more items. As item no. 11, he gain enters item 'A' for 5 qty.
Is there any user exit / BADI / workaround to update the item no. 1 to 'A' - 15 qty instead of new line item 11.
Regards,
Maheshwaran. I

You can try with the following sale order user exits.
User exits in the program MV45AFZZ - USEREXIT_READ_DOCUMENT
User-Exits in program MV45AFZB - USEREXIT_CHECK_VBAP
thanks
G. Lakshmipathi

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MDM means faster product launches and a better handle on customer feedback. For Example- We have heard about the companies like Maruti which deals in Cars, now say if Maruti comes out with a new Car Model, then it generally happens that many Customers do the Advance booking for that particular car, now if the data is not maintained properly then Company would not be able to release the product in Time and also this would affect its image in the Market, however if the Product launches on time we will always
get good Customer feedback which would in turn increase the reputation of our Company.
10. Customer Data Integration (CDI):
It is the process of consolidating and managing customer information from all available sources, including his contact details, customer valuation data, and information gathered through interactions such as direct marketing. CDI ensures that all the relevant departments of the company have access to the most current and complete view of customer information available.
11. Interpretability:
Interpretability, or the ability to recognize and understand data, is one of the biggest challenges to implementing successful data quality programs. In many cases, stored data exists in a wide variety of formats. Also, the individual elements within a given record have not been separated or may contain misleading data. Before any data quality processes can be implemented, the source data must be parsed into the appropriate components so that it can be understood by data quality systems. In addition, certain data elements may need to be moved, deleted or formatted.
12. MDM maximizes the return on SOA Investments:
Much of the hype and attention in service-oriented architecture (SOA) deployments has gone into web service creation and deployment and management standards and technologies. However, if data is inconsistent across applications, composite applications and business processes that cut across multiple systems and departments will not yield the desired results and benefits. For example, a composite application in a large multi-channel financial service institution that calculates a customers global credit risk will only work if that customer is described in a consistent manner across retail banking, brokerage, mortgage, and credit card systems. In a retail environment, a composite application that gets a customers order history from a data warehouse and recommends a related product requires consistent product and customer information across all the relevant systems. On a smaller scale, even business services to update an address or provision a service require semantic consistency of master data across customer relationship management (CRM), billing, and product systems.
Effective MDM helps organizations realize the full ROI potential from their SOA and business process management (BPM) investments.
13. High-end scalability:
Scalability is the growth capacity of a system. If a companys data volumes, transaction-processing rates and number of simultaneous users are modest and static, then most products should be able to meet those scalability requirements. But that is not the typical description of an MDM candidate.
Global enterprises with immense amounts of master data, millions of records, tens to hundreds of client business applications and thousands to tens of thousands of users are more the norm. Master data management is a large task. Smaller vendors with lesser-known products simply will not have the capability to support the capacities required.
14. Customer satisfaction due to effective and efficient supply chain management.
15. High productivity due to effective inters operability in company.
16. Effective formulation of policies in company in respect of vendors and customers.
17. In the absence of an MDM function, each system, application, and even department within the enterprise collects its own version of key business entities. Like the collection of customer data. Key attributes such as customer name and address information are collected repeatedly throughout the enterprise. Unfortunately, it is rare that this gathering process produces the same or consistent data about customers. This leads to the critical difficulty (aside from the storage costs of it) with such redundant data poor data quality. According to a report from The Data Warehousing Institute, Data Quality and the Bottom Line by Wayne Ackerson, corporations lose more than $600 billion a year due to poor data quality, and most of that cost can be attributed to redundant and low quality master data.
18. Organizations constant changes as new products and services are introduced and withdrawn, companies are acquired and sold, and new technologies appear and reach maturity. this changes can be managed effectively in MDM and can be reflected every where in the company data.
19. Organizations can build a complete view of their customers, products, and other critical business entities.
Regards
Richa

I just got myself the new 13 inch Mac Air. When I scrol up or down on an Internet page, like a news article, I see rowing, ripple distortions in the document, which causes headaches for me. Is this a common problem? Can I do anything to eliminate this?

Hello New Friends:
I've been a Windows user but my first computer was the original Mac that I used in college.
I just got myself a new Mac Air -- great! But I'm getting headaches from distortions on the screen when I scrol up and down a news article on the Internet. Is this a common problem for Air? Can I do anything to eliminate this problem.
Thanks.

jordanfromallyn wrote:
Is it just me, or does it seem like every buyer of the new Mid 2012 MacBook Air (myself included) has had at least one issue with it out of the box?
It's just you. Remember, there are lots of people who purchase the MacBook Air that are using it without issue. These forums are like a hospital emergency room - the people you see here are the ones that need help. The rest are all out there enjoying their MBAs. Very few people come here to post that everything is working perfectly.

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