Big4Guy

I was discussing the concept of Sales areas and sales documents with one of my colleagues. He wanted to understand the concept of assigning Sales areas to Sales Documents. Generally, when someone comes up to me with a query like this, the first thing I do is start the demo version of SAP loaded on my laptop. The demo version which I have is IDES SAP. It is always better to have the live system in front of you when one is explaining technical details.

SAP SD provides the facility of assigning sales documents to specific sales areas. For example, a different sales document might be used depending upon the sales order. For example, there might be two different sales documents used for sales orders one for domestic sales other for exports.

This can be configured in SAP through the following menu path:

IMG >> Sales and distribution >> Sales >> Sales documents >> Sales document header >> Assign sales area to sales document types.

Altenatively, same can be configured through Transaction Code OVAZ. Referencing Sales Organizations, as well as distribution channels can also be assigned. An easy way to understand the concept is to note that the referencing done is only used by the system to determine which sales documents are permitted for which sales areas.

Big4guy Tip: While configuring, in case you require all sales documents for all sales areas, simply leave the assignment field blank.