SAP Upgrade Delta Document SD: Applies To

SAP Upgrade Delta Document SD
Module
Applies to:
SAP Upgrade 4.7E to ECC6.0, Sales and Distribution Module
For more information, visit the Enterprise Resource Planning homepage.
Summary:
The differences in 4.7E and ECC6.0 pertaining to SD module, especially the look and feel changes of certain
Screens and Redesigned transactions were covered here. This document is useful for Users and
Consultants in SAP Upgrade.
Author:
Shesagiri Gedila
Company
Intelligroup Asia Pvt. Ltd.
Created on: 18 May 2009
Author Bio:
Around 7+ years of Work experience, includes 5 years of Domestic and International assignments in end to
end implementations, Roll out, Production Support, Upgrade projects in Sales and Distribution, SAP IS
Retail, Logistics Execution Modules.
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SAP Upgrade Delta Document SD Module
Table of Contents
Overview .............................................................................................................................................................3
Delta SD Module.................................................................................................................................................3
IMG Activities for the Assignment of Organizational Units .............................................................................3
Enterprise Structure Consistency Check (Check Report for Customizing) ....................................................5
Sales Order Processing (Document Flow)......................................................................................................6
Sales order Changes in Tab Name.................................................................................................................9
Sales Order Item Conditions.........................................................................................................................10
Delivery Processing ......................................................................................................................................12
Quotation list .................................................................................................................................................13
Sales Order List ............................................................................................................................................15
Contracts List ................................................................................................................................................16
Billing Documents List...................................................................................................................................18
Maintain Billing Due List................................................................................................................................19
Condition Details ...........................................................................................................................................21
Delta Training - New Opportunities ..................................................................................................................25
New Functionality..........................................................................................................................................25
Credit Management ...................................................................................................................................................25
Rebates Processing...................................................................................................................................................25
Condition Master Data ...............................................................................................................................................25
Billing .........................................................................................................................................................................25
Billing Revenue Recognition ......................................................................................................................................26
Functional Enhancements ............................................................................................................................26

User Interfaces...........................................................................................................................................................26
E - Commerce............................................................................................................................................................27
Summary...........................................................................................................................................................29
Related Content................................................................................................................................................29
Disclaimer and Liability Notice..........................................................................................................................30

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Overview
ECC 6 is a NetWeaver Product enabled with WASJAVA+ABAP
SAP NetWeaver is an integrated technology platform and is the technical foundation for all SAP
applications.
SAP NetWeaver provides the development and runtime environment for SAP applications and can
be used for custom development and integration with other applications and systems.
SAP NetWeaver is built using open standards and industry de facto standards and can be extended
with, and interoperate with, technologies such as Microsoft, .NET, Sun JAVA EE & IBM Web sphere
Overview of Screen Look and Feel changes between 4.6c to ECC 6.0
Redesigned Transaction codes
New Functionality
In ECC6SAP moved a lot of reports to the ALV format
Delta SD Module
This section talks about the delta in the organizational unit assignment redesigned by SAP between versions
4.7 to ECC 6.0 pertaining to SD Module.
IMG Activities for the Assignment of Organizational Units
The following activities in the Implementation Guide have been changed.
Assign sales Organization to Company code
Assign distribution channel to sales Organization.
Set up Sales Area.
Assign sales office to sales area.
Assign sales group to sales office
Assign sales organization distribution channel-plant
Accessing Transaction
Between enterprise edition 4.7 & new ECC 6 version, there has not been any change in the menu but the
transaction code is changed
Earlier Version 4.7

Via Menus
Via Transaction Code
Enterprise Structure -> Assignment -> Sales and Distribution

OVX3: Assign sales organization to company code
OVXK: Assign distribution channel to sales organization
OVXA :Assign division to sales organization
OVXG: Set up sales area
OVXM :Assign sales office to sales area
OVXJ :Assign sales group to sales office
OVX6 :Assign sales organization - distribution channel - plant

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New Version ECC 6

Via Menus
Enterprise Structure -> Assignment -> Sales and Distribution
OVX3N: Assign sales organization to company code

OVXKN: Assign distribution channel to sales organization
OVXAN Assign division to sales organization
OVXGN: Set up sales area
OVXMN :Assign sales office to sales area
OVXJN: Assign sales group to sales office
OVX6N : Assign sales organization - distribution channel - plant
Look & Feel Changes

The following activities in the Implementation Guide have been changed.
Enterprise Structure Assignment Sales and Distribution
Analysis of Organizational structure is simple in ECC 6.0.
Search procedure is easy in ECC 6.0
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Enterprise Structure Consistency Check (Check Report for Customizing)

You check the definition and allocation of Organizational Units
transaction code is changed
Earlier Version 4.7
Via Menus
Enterprise Structure -> Consistency Check -> Check enterprise

structure for Sales and Distribution
OVX8
New Version ECC 6

Via Menus
Enterprise Structure -> Consistency Check -> Check enterprise

structure for Sales and Distribution
OVX8N
Look & Feel Changes

Check Report for Organizational structure is simple in ECC 6.0.
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Sales Order Processing (Document Flow)

This section talks about the delta in the Document flow, which are redesigned by SAP between versions 4.7
to ECC 6.0
As of SAP ECC 6.0, the system uses the ALV Tree Control to display the document flow for sales
Documents. You can still access individual documents from document flow and use other functions in
document flow, as was previously the case.
Display Document Flow for Sales Documents
Earlier Version 4.7
Via Menus
Sales and Distribution (SD) ->Reports and Analyses (SD-ISREP) -> Document Flow.
VA03
New Version ECC 6.0

There are no changes either in the Menu path or Transaction Code

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Look & Feel Change

The screen display has changed due to inclusion of some fields in ECC 6 when compared to 4.7 which can
be seen in the comparison screen shots.
New, modified layout for the Document Flow screen,
Displayed in an interactive format.
An additional lower window appears with complete document details.
Layout can be customized.
Can be downloaded as a report.

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SAP Enterprise 4.7
SAP ECC 6.0

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Sales order Changes in Tab Name

The Purchase order data tab in 4.7 at the header level of the sales order has been renamed as Order Data
in ECC 6
Between enterprise edition 4.7 & new ECC 6 version, there has not been any change in the menu or
transaction code. The transactions & menu path comparison is as below:
Earlier Version 4.7
Via Menus
Logistics--> Sales and Distribution--> Sales-->Order
VA01/VA02/VA03
New Version ECC 6.0

Look & Feel Changes
The screen display Tab name as Purchase Order Data tab in 4.7 is changed to Order Data tab in ECC 6
which can be seen in the comparison screen shots.
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SAP ECC 6.0
Sales Order Item Conditions

Sales Order Item Conditions Status Indicators have been introduced in ECC 6.0
Between enterprise edition 4.7 & new ECC 6 version, there has not been any change in the menu or
transaction code. The transactions & menu path comparison is as below:
Earlier Version 4.7
Via Menus
Logistics--> Sales and Distribution--> Sales-->Order
VA01/VA02/VA03
New Version ECC 6.0

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Look & Feel Changes

Status indicators have been introduced in ECC 6.0 (earlier only used in output types) for all condition types
during sales order processing, indicating whether the condition has been successfully processed or not.
Green Indicator suggests Condition Processed successfully.
Red Indicator suggests Condition failed.
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Delivery Processing
Additional icons are there in ECC6.0 for Reverse Goods Movement not in 4.7
Between enterprise edition 4.7 & new ECC 6 version, the transactions & menu path comparison is as below:
Earlier Version 4.7
Via Menus
Logistics--> Sales and Distribution--> Shipping and

Transportation--> Post Goods Issue--> Cancellation/Reversal
VL09
New Version ECC 6.0

Look & Feel Changes
The screen display has changed; new icons are added in ECC 6
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Following new Icons added in ECC6.0 to bring in more user friendliness
Quotation list
Use this procedure to generate a list of quotations using search criteria for editing or report analysis
transaction code changed in ECC6. The transactions & menu path comparison is as below:
Earlier Version 4.7
Via Menus
Logistics-->Sales and Distribution--> Sales-->Information

System--> Quotations-->Quotations List
VA25
New Version ECC 6.0

Via Menus

System--> Quotations-->Quotations List
VA25N

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Look & Feel Changes

Here you can see the changes in ECC 6
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Sales Order List

You use this function to list sales and distribution documents (sales orders) within a certain time period.
The new transaction code is as below in ECC6. Use this procedure to view all Sales Order Documents
created in SAP
Earlier Version 4.7
Via Menus

System--> Orders-->List of Sales orders
VA05
New Version ECC 6.0

Via Menus

System--> Orders-->List of Sales orders
VA05N
Look & Feel Changes

The screen changes comparison in 4.7 and ECC 6 is as below
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Contracts List
You use this function to list sales and distribution documents (Contracts) within a certain time period.
The new transaction code is as below in ECC6
Earlier Version 4.7
Via Menus

System--> Contracts-->List of Contracts
VA45
New Version ECC 6.0

Via Menus

System--> Contracts-->List of Contracts
VA45N
Look & Feel Changes

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Billing Documents List

You use this function to list sales and distribution documents (billing documents) within a certain time period.
The new transaction code is as below in ECC6
Earlier Version 4.7
Via Menus
Logistics-->Sales and Distribution--> Billing-->Information

system-->Billing Documents--> List Billing Documents
VF05
New Version ECC 6.0

Via Menus
Logistics-->Sales and Distribution--> Billing-->Information

system-->Billing Documents--> List Billing Documents
VF05N
Look & Feel Changes

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Maintain Billing Due List

You can use the billing due list to put together the documents to be billed, based on the selection criteria.
The system selects the documents that have to be billed according to the selection criteria. In that way,
several deliveries can be put together in one billing document.
You use this function to list sales and distribution documents (billing documents) within a certain time period.
Earlier Version 4.7
Via Menus
Logistics-->Sales and Distribution-->Billing-->Billing

Document-->Process Billing Due List
VF04
New Version ECC 6.0

Look & Feel Changes
The Field is designed to tab format in ECC 6
Selection
Organizational Data
Customer Data
Documents to be selected
Default Data
Additional Tab Default Data is included
Batch Updates
Output Data for Batch Processing
Updates

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Condition Details
Pricing Condition Overview
Earlier Version 4.7
Via Menus
Logistics -->Sales and Distribution -->Master Data -->

Conditions -->Select Using Condition Type -->Display
VK13
New Version ECC 6.0

Look & Feel Changes

Variable Data Part is addition in ECC 6 which has the field processing status for conditions
The processing status can be freely assigned for condition records.
There is a maintenance view in Customizing, which contains the permitted processing status. Here a release
status is assigned to every processing status. This determines under what conditions a condition record is
retrieved (Call mode).
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SAP ECC 6.0
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Delta Training - New Opportunities

This section talks about the capabilities that exist in the new release or which the client may want to explore
in coming future.
New Functionality
Credit Management
Integrating SD Credit Management with SAP Credit Management: We can also use SAP Credit
Management in SAP Financial Supply Chain Management (FIN-FSCM-CR) to perform all credit checks and
commitment updates for all areas of sales (SD-BF-CM). You make the necessary settings for negative credit
check results in Customizing.
In SAP Credit Management you can update the data from multiple systems.This enables you to execute
credit checks with consistent data in distributed systems, too.
Furthermore, you can also program your own credit checks to meet your requirements, also by using
external interfaces.
Rebates Processing
Rebate Condition Records using Scales: In ECC 6.0 we can set up rebate agreements so that the scale
base value and the rebate scale level is derived from the total sales volume of multiple condition records.We
can do this by grouping condition records in the rebate agreement.
This feature also supports the following:
Different grouping of condition records for each rebate agreement
Multiple scale groups within a single rebate agreements.
Grouping records of different condition types, provided they have the same scale base unit of
measure
Condition Master Data

New Components added to Condition Master Data (ECC 6.0)
Menu Path:SAP MenuLogisticsS&DMaster dataConditions
Commodity Pricing
This function is provided for customers from the Oil & Gas and the Mining industries for the release
combinations CRM 5.0 with IS-Oil 4.72 or IS-Mine 4.72.
Billing
New Components added to Logistics S&D Billing (ECC6.0)
Menu Path: SAP Menu Logistics S&D Billing
Complaints Processing
Complaint Processing
Processes customer complaints referring to products, sales, and services. To fully utilize this
functionality, Customer Relationship management needs to be implemented.

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Billing Revenue Recognition

New Components added to Billing Revenue Recognition (ECC6.0)
Menu Path:SAP Menu Logistics S&D Billing Revenue Recognition
Compare Report:
Used to analyze the balance of deferred revenue or unbilled receivables accounts used in revenue
recognition. You can display the postings that contributed to the account balance, and determine which
orders, contracts, and corresponding invoices are involved.
Functional Enhancements
User Interfaces
Internal Sales Representative Role (User Interface)
Usage
Fast entry screens for inquiries, quotations, and sales orders
Single point of access to all work lists such as incomplete orders, expiring quotations, deliveryblocked orders, backorders, and so on
Sales analyses based on the Information Consumer Pattern
Business Benefits
Improves efficiency and effectiveness through the personalization of the information
Speeds-up sales order entry
Accelerates access to current workload
Accelerates sales analyses
Description
The role for Internal Sales Representatives is enhanced with a new user interface that integrates
sales order management flexibly and seamlessly into SAP Enterprise Portal (SAP EP).
Occasional users in particular, benefit from the new UI, which speeds up sales processes and
enhances data accuracy.
The new user interface for sales order management is customizable and can be adapted to the
companies business needs. It is based on a new API which provides real time access to the
business processes in ERP.
This new API ensures a high performance of the application, even if a high sales order volume is
handled.
Work Overview
This work center gives you an overview of your daily work and gives you easy access to your
most important tasks.
Sales Documents
This work center allows you to work on all your sales documents. You can create and maintain
inquiries, quotations, sales orders, sales contracts, scheduling agreements, and billing
documents.

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Order Fulfillment
This work center allows you to monitor order fulfillment. You can display deliveries,
backorders and shipments, and can check product availability.
Master Data
This work center allows you to work on all your master data. You can create and maintain
business partners, customer agreements, prices and conditions, and products.
Additionally, Internal Sales Representatives can also better monitor their daily workload. The
Personal Object Work List (POWL) pushes critical business processes directly to the desktop of
the Internal Sales Representative.
Examples for critical processes are incomplete sales orders, expiring quotations, incoming
orders via EDI which are blocked for delivery, and so on.
By monitoring these critical sales processes, the order fulfillment rates and therefore the
customer service can be improved. Finally, this portal role provides better analytical insight.
The Internal Sales Representative can easily prepare and distribute analyses such as incoming
orders per customer or delivery delays per month to the Sales Manager.
E - Commerce
E-Commerce - Quotation & Order Management
Functionality Description
Lock of sales documents to avoid concurrent access during the order change process.
Order creation with reference to a contract that has been displayed.
Business Benefits
Reduces errors and offers better data consistency
Faster order creation process
Encourages use of profitable sales interaction channel
Reduces administrative tasks by automating quotations and orders management
Improves customer satisfaction and retention by delivering accurate information to customers
E-Commerce: Selling Over eBay

Creation and management of product listings on eBay leverages the e-commerce order
management and fulfillment capabilities of mySAP ERP by easily tying existing tax, pricing,
shipping, and payment configurations to post-auction processing
Business Benefits
E-Commerce Selling over eBay offers organizations integration of their existing mySAP ERP
environments with the worlds largest online marketplace to create and manage listings on eBay.

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The new feature helps:

- Increase e-commerce revenues
- Streamline and leverage existing order management and fulfillment capabilities
E-Commerce: Web Crawler
Registration of products in Web crawler product catalogs, such as Google, to enable users to
directly order the product they have searched for from the page they have been forwarded to by
the Web crawlers product catalog.
Business Benefits
E-Commerce Web Crawler enhances visibility and integration with web shop offerings. This
introduction offers new opportunities which can generate additional traffic to the Web shop
and increase web shop revenues.
E-Commerce: Order Entry
New user interface for inquiries, quotations, and sales orders that is easy to learn, easy to use, and
easy to adjust.
Entering or updating of relevant sales order information by employees with direct or indirect
customer contact
New productivity features
Order cockpit for quick access
Flexible and reusable search
Adaptable layouts
This set of enhancements in sales order management improves user productivity by offering better
usability, adaptability, and integration into the Internal Sales Representative role.

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Summary
There are no major changes that we noted except for the few new redesigned transaction Codes, and feel
and Look changes. SAP moved a lot of reports to the ALV format in ECC6.
Related Content
SAP ERP Solution Browser - English > Search by ERP Release
https://www.service.sap.com/support
http://help.sap.com/

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Disclaimer and Liability Notice

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supported by SAP. Changes made based on this information are not supported and can be overwritten during an upgrade.
SAP will not be held liable for any damages caused by using or misusing the information, code or methods suggested in this document,
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Functional Enhancements ............................................................................................................................26

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Redesigned Transaction codes

In ECC6SAP moved a lot of reports to the ALV format

Assign sales Organization to Company code

Assign distribution channel to sales Organization.

Set up Sales Area.

Assign sales office to sales area.

Assign sales group to sales office

Assign sales organization distribution channel-plant

Earlier Version 4.7

Enterprise Structure -> Assignment -> Sales and Distribution

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SAP Upgrade Delta Document SD Module

New Version ECC 6

Enterprise Structure -> Assignment -> Sales and Distribution

Via Transaction Code

OVX3N: Assign sales organization to company code

Look & Feel Changes

SAP COMMUNITY NETWORK

SAP ECC 6.0

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Enterprise Structure Consistency Check (Check Report for Customizing)

Enterprise Structure -> Consistency Check -> Check enterprise

Via Transaction Code

New Version ECC 6

Enterprise Structure -> Consistency Check -> Check enterprise

Via Transaction Code

Look & Feel Changes

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SAP ECC 6.0

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Sales Order Processing (Document Flow)

Via Transaction Code

New Version ECC 6.0

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SAP Upgrade Delta Document SD Module

Look & Feel Change

New, modified layout for the Document Flow screen,

Displayed in an interactive format.

An additional lower window appears with complete document details.

Layout can be customized.

Can be downloaded as a report.

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SAP Enterprise 4.7

SAP ECC 6.0

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