SAP Distribution Channels for REPORTING

The Distribution Channels, how can one make sure that this is Blueprinted correctly, so that it doesnt have an affect on the reporting?
correct me if im worng, what affect does a SD Distribution CHannel have on SD or other reporting in finance? what issues may the business get if this isnt set up properly or accordinlgy?
the company has ONE COMPANY code and several or 2 plants.

Keep sales area (sales org, DC, & Divisions) as flat as possible.  1 company and # number of plants can be supported by 1 sales area.   There are many fields in both the customer & material master that can be used for reporting, pricing etc.
The more sales areas means the more areas that master data is extended to.  There are business driven reasons that justify multiple sales areas (2 unique sales forces, selling different products) but try KISS 1st.

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  • Using new Distribution Channel for dealers.

    Hi experts
    Currently Domestic sales is operating only on one channel  DD.
    Proposal is to set DR channels for all Dealers sales and DD will be used only for Retail Sales .
    DR Channel was previously configured but we were only using DD channel for both retailors & dealers sales.. all configuration is already done like sales area setup  and pricing etc. for DR channel
    so i would like to what are the pros and cons for using two Distribution channel and maintainence we require.
    thank  you

    You need to extend all customers and materials for new distribution channel.
    You also neeed to maintain prices for DD and DR channels separately.
    ITs advantage is this that your reporting will be separately executed. You can check how much sales you have done in retail and how much you have done in Whole sale.
    I dont know what kind of business your company is running. I suggest you to make a provision for 3rd distribution channel which is DC. B2B sales. corporate sales. May after some months or years your company feel need of it.
    For extending customers and materials 2 uploads will do this. Ask you ABAPER to create uploads.
    There must be separate distribution channels for corporate, retail, wholesale and Expots if your company is dealing with exports sale.
    Hope its clear to you now

  • Distribution channel for STO

    hi
    is it require to having seperate distribution channel for only Stock transfers b/w Plants. ? ( genaral thumb rule is having minimum organizational units is suggestable na?)
    rajen

    Hi,
    Initially client may say we need less organisational units but at the end they may need so many reports and then its difficult provide them same to client.Its  better you can have extra distibution channel for stock transport order in company code level not in plant level, so that you can drill down report( as many as possible).
    If helpful then rewards.
    Regards,
    Biju K

  • How to know Sales Organization and distribution channel for a material

    How to know Sales Organization and distribution channel for a created material

    Hi,
    For a single material means u can go mm03 7 select the material number 7 select the sales views then press f4 the details u can see.
    For any number of materials u can go to se11 & give table name MVKE then select the required parameters & execute.
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  • SFTP Seeburger adapter - Could not find channel for report handling between

    Hello Friends ,
    We have R3 -> PI-> SFTP scenario . The messages are transferred successfully and the file is successfully received at the receiving end . But when we do communication channel monitoring , we see errors in Receiver CC . The Reciever CC contains SFTP adapter (Seeburger) . Recently the Seeburger adapter is upgraded and the below error has started occuring then onwards .
    Error Message which we see in CC monitoring for Receiver CC (SFTP) is as below .
    Initiation of Transmission Report( job id: da405030-30c6-11df-8b6e-797b8921162c milestone: 290) failed! Exception occured: Error while preparing XI message. Error: Could not find channel for report handling between parties: fromParty, toParty: Itella) - com.seeburger.xi.connector.fw.ConfigurationException: Error while preparing XI message. Error: Could not find channel for report handling between parties: fromParty, toParty: Itella) [3/16/10 8:40 AM]
    Could experts help me ...
    Thanks for your time .
    Regards,
    Laxman Nayak .

    Hi,
    I also have the error you mentioned but we're implementing the Seeburger SFTP adapter for the first time.
    I've requested transport acknowledgements in my ABAP proxy and have checked the 'Deliver transmission report' flag in the adapter but I don't know what else I must do.
    Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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    Alan

  • Create several distribution channel for an existing customer

    Hi,
    to create a new customer, we use the BAPI "BAPI_CUSTOMER_CREATEFROMDATA1" with the specified distribution channel.
    After creation of the customer I want to create another distribution channel to this customer without create a new customer number.
    Is there any BAPI, which solve this issue?
    Best regards,
    Dirk

    hii,
    From ECC it is manadatory that you maintain Common Distribution Channel (Reference distribution channel for conditions, Reference distrib.channel for cust.and material masters) and Common Division (Reference division for conditions, Reference division for customers). so you will have to create the customer similarly. Thumb rule it is standardized.
    Customer created for one sales area i.e., 1000,10,01 cannot be used in another sales area 1000,11,01 unless the customer is extended. (which means you cannot use the customer for other sales area)
    rgrds,
    Shweta

  • Distribution channel for third party sales

    Hello Gurus,
    May I know what is the distribution channel or type of it I should or could use for third party sales order creation?
    I have configured the ITC etc but not sure the distribution channel to use from the standard SAP provided ones.
    Or I can use any without affecting the process?
    regards
    Bass

    You can use any without affecting the process.
    3rd party process is controlled by - item cat. group, item category, schedule line cat., etc.
    At some places, separate order type or dist ch are used only for Reporting purpose.
    Thanks

  • Distribution channel for manufacturing industries

    Hi.
    For manufacturing industries of consumer products what is best channel distribution choice in SAP, taking into account that the customers in SAP aren´t the consumers?
    A.
    10 Wholesalers
    20 Distributors
    30 Supermarkets
    or
    B
    10 Wholesale
    20 Retail
    If the answer is A,.... Why SAP give us the option of extend a customer to the another distribution channel ?
    Thank you.

    As you would be aware the purpose of creating Distribution Channel is that through some channel you have to distribute the material to customer and we call this channel in many ways like, wholesale, retail, export etc.,
    As long as the sales area (combination of sales organisation, distribution channel and division) is clear in SD side, all sales reports can be differentiated easily and from end user point of view, this will be much useful. 
    In some cases, you need to go in for a common distribution channel due to the fact that instead of having lot of distribution channels, you can simplify the configuration part by having a common channel. 
    The decision to go different distribution channel or common distribution channel needs to be analysed on case to case basis and of course with clients' concurrence.
    thanks
    G. Lakshmipathi

  • Distribution channel for analysis?

    hello,
    could you kindly advice me what is the relevance of distribution channel in financial reporting from the Org. structure and reproting perspective.
    If there are specific customers which require are grouped together and that distribution channel is used
    to group these customers due to various reasons for financial reporting or the another choice or possibility to group customers at the customer level and then perform the reporting or analysis is something not clear which is a better way forward.
    Thanks for your valuable inputs.
    Andy

    Hi
    Distribution channel is an Org element in SD to bifurcate sales data based on the channels in which you reach the customer say Wholesale, Retail, Direct, etc
    A sales to a customer can happen through any of these channels
    Thank You,

  • Hardcode Distribution Channel For Opportunities

    Hello,
    I have a requirement where once a prospect is selected for an opportunity and the sales areas are selected, I need to hardcode the distribution channel to a specific value regardless of what the org determination procedure brings back.  Does anyone have a good suggestion for how I could do this (or better yet, any other possible solutions that aren't as hacky?)
    Thanks!
    - Tom

    Tom,
    Your other option is to modify the org chart and keep only one distribution channel on the org units so that the procedure can never return back more than one value.  The badi however is probably easier in the long run though.
    Take care,
    Stephen

  • SAP upgrade - questions for report painter and query

    Hi Experts,
    I have two quwstions of SAP upgrade.
    My requirement is: SAP upgrade from 4.6B to ECC 6.0 with non-unicode.
    1.Does SAP upgrade influence the report painter? If influence, could you tell me what should I do for this case.
    2. We have so many queries (SQ01) in our system and many of them haven't been run for a long time. we need a tool to get the runtimes of queries in a certain durition.
    For example: From 2008/01/01 to 2008/03/31,I want to know how many queries had been run/ query name/ runtimes of each query.
    Best regards,

    > 1.Does SAP upgrade influence the report painter? If influence, could you tell me what should I do for this case.
    You can check
    Note 1155524 - ReportWriter: Upgrade Issues ECC6.0 -Common Customer Issues
    > 2. We have so many queries (SQ01) in our system and many of them haven't been run for a long time. we need a tool to get the runtimes of queries in a certain durition.
    Such a tool was RBE (Reverse Business Engineer) - which is out of support.
    You can try to get that information from ST03. If that is not enough there's no other way than booking an SLO service to find out the queries that have not been used (http://service.sap.com/slo).
    Markus

  • Pros & Cons of Using SAP PI Interfaces for Report Generation

    Hi Guru's
    I have a Scenario's like
    I have to generate a customized report in SAP with the main data's available in SAP ECC and some required data available in the Legacy System.
    I want to know the Pros & cons of using SAP PI RFC/Proxy adapter interface to get the data from the legacy system for each time the user execute the report in SAP ECC.
    Thanks in Advance

    There are couple of "dimensions" to consider in your PI interface design. For exemple when you are running the sizing exercise (Since we are considering adding a net new interface), you will need to capture specific information about new interface.i.e. S/A, adapters, frequency, avg payload size. etc..Note that the last two attributes will be hard to size properly in this case since you can't predict how frequent the end user will run the report which will impact the latency time required to pull the data. Latency will affect the user experience as visible side affect and definitely the SLA for other interfaces running at the same time.
    On the other hand, the data you are trying to retrieve from the legacy won't be used for transactional purpose but for the end user to pull KPIs from the system which can affect ECC as well. You may end up doing lot hot fixes for your report (Assuming that the report is a medium complexity code)
    There are other factors to consider but let's consider these are the major one.
    Cheers,
    F

  • Sales BOM is not working for one Distribution Channel

    HI Gurus
    In VA01, Line item, for material A Sales BOM is working ( Bom exploded ) for one distribution channel but not for other distribution channel.
    Material A is defined already for other distribution channel ( for which sales bom).
    Sales BOM ( CS01) is also define.
    Regards\Adnan

    this is solved by myself. Component ( child ) material was not defined for that Distribution channel.

  • Risk on wrong definition of sales organization, distribution channel and division

    Hi,
    our organization just started to implement SAP and SD module is one of the subject to complete.
    We are in the defining phase of the above subject but I still can not understand the risk of being miss-defining the sales organization, distribution channel and division. Is it true will only impacting the pricing and reporting only? Are there going to be future impact on this?
    Thank you before for your explanation.
    Andy

    Hi Andy,
    Good to see the suggestions!
    These are the rules I try to follow:
    Do not over do it. Simple is better and facilitates change.
    One sales organization for each company code unless significant differences exist between independent sales departments. Like one wants to use CRM and others won't. It's roughly equivalent to one by each top level sales director.
    One distribution channel for each sales channel group that defines different prices or different shipping conditions for the same material. Like retail and wholesale have different pricing. Special rules can apply like mail delivery require different correspondence settings.
    One division for each division of the company. If company has no clearly defined divisions (like Aeronautics and Footwear) there is no need (in sales) to split (it might in financials).
    Using sales office and sales group for reporting is a lot better than the top level structures because it's easy to change them in master data, unlike sales org or distribution channel. And when departments get reorganized the system effort is significantly reduced if no change occurs at those three top levels.
    So I normally use the sales office to the first or second level of reporting and sales group in some cases to represent individual sales persons or nothing at all in other cases.
    regards,
    Edgar

  • Scenario regarding Sales Organization, distribution channel

    Dear Experts,
    I am doing
    1. Simple Domestic sales from manufacturing plant
    2. Depot Sales: In which, Stock transfer between two plants i.e. from Manufacturing Plant to Depot and sales from depot
    3. Exports: Sales to other country.
    Now, my confusion is, whether i can use a single sales organization and three distribution channel for all these three scenarios or do i have to create three different sales organizations along with three distribution channels and do the processes?
    My anather question is, if i want to do depot sales, then it is possible to have one manufacturing plant and two storage locations at different places. i.e. issuing storage locatin and receiving storage location.
    Is it possible to sell goods from receiving storage location to end customer?
    What will be simple organizational structure i can make to acheive these things?
    I would be very helpful if you can give me your expert inputs on the scenario. I am trying to make the simple organization structure with less complications for my client.
    Thank you
    Amit

    Hi
    As suggested the best choice will be to go ahead with one sales organization for all these scenario. Since in domestic sale / export sale the only difference will be the Pricing configuration and that can be easily mapped using the either a distribution channel / or a customer pricing procedure.
    Now when it comes to handling the sales scenario - there is a option to go ahead with two or even three distribution channel.
    1. Domestic Sale (Can handle Both Depot sale and Manufacturing same- seperate dist.channel will help to pick right pricing procedure
    2. Export Sale - This distribution channel will help you to pickup export pricing procedure (Also if not then you can have customer pricing procedure to pick the export pricing )
    3. Stock Transfer (Can be done through domestic sale also)- I hope a seperate pricing procedure will be created for STO. So from the reporting purpose a seperate dist.channel can help you to have more clarity to the user - Again will help you to pick a different pricing procedure (A seperate Cust.pr.Pro can also be used to pick a different pricing procedure)
    4. If you are using DEPOT sale with Excisable mean you need to maintain RG23D register. Also you need to generate Excise Invoice, challan . If you use transfer process of storage location to storage locationthen there are concerns as how you will generate challan and Invoice. OR if it is a DEPOT to DEPOT Transfer then also you need supporting document. please do check as whether you need the required output or not.
    So Depot need to be maintained a PLANT in SAP with a check box as saying Excisable and relevant for RG23D. and a Normal Sales process will follow. Reporting can be done of PLANT as a primary key.
    Distribution channel will be a simpler way of Differentiation - and for reporting purpose.
    Thanks
    RB
    Edited by: RBhardwaj on Feb 16, 2012 6:54 PM

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