Text Control

Sales & Distribution

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 This is setup when business requires to display text

messages in SD Master data and Sales document.

 Master data

Customer master
 Condition records

 Sales document level

 Sales order / contract


Delivery
 Billing
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 In the document level, text can be displayed both at the
header and item level.

 Examples of different types of text in sales order


Reference of previous sales order of the same customer can be
given in the header level text of the sales order

Shipping instructions like delivery of certain items will be done
separately due to different shipping requirements like
refrigeration.

 All such different text types are created and grouped

under text objects. Text types from these text objects
can be then referenced and copied in the text of
subsequent documents.
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 Standard Text objects


KNA1 (Group for text types defined in customer master –
General / central level)

KNVV (Group for text types defined in customer master –Sales
area level)

VBBK (Group for text types defined for document type – header
or item level)

 Text procedure – It lists all the text types required for

customer master or document.
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 Text procedure determination

 Customer master – Based on customer account

group

Document - Based on document type like order /
delivery / billing type and item category

 Source for text type can be from different sources. This

is configured assigning access sequence to text type.
 Example – Sales note for customer text in sales order can be
searched from reference sales document like contract or
customer master text at sales area / general level.
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 Other features
 If for export orders, business need is to make
shipping instructions mandatory then text type for
shipping instructions in text procedure can be made
mandatory.

 If in billing document header, text related to payment

terms has to be copied from Payer and not sold-to
party then text type can be configured to copy the text
from Payer master record. Applicable when payer is
different than sold-to party.
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