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Jobs in SAP
1. Implementation
2. Shared Support
3. Roll out
Project preparation
Business Blueprint
Realization
Final Preparation
Go-Live
Project Preparation
In Project preparation stages all the senior management from company (Tata
Motors) and service provider (TCS) both will do meeting and will discuss below points –
What will be the start date for implementation?
What will be the scope for entire project?
What will be the complete duration for entire project?
What will be the Go-Live Date?
Who will bear the travelling expense of consultant Tata motors or TCS?
Who will bear the accommodation, food and local travelling expense of
consultant?
Business Blueprint
Consultant will arrive to the project location with project manager and program manager.
AS-IS -> Consultant will start gather information from Tata Motors representative.
Information which will be gathered like Sales head, Dealer, distributor, wholesaler, sales
office, sales team, plant, dispatch place of material.
TO-BE -> Consultant will start transforming Tata motors business process in SAP form.
GAP Analysis – Both side people will discuss each other and will make a final conclusion on
business blueprint.
Once the revised business blueprint is ready, consultant will share the business blueprint
with Tata Motors representative and will take a sign off with approval on each and every
page.
Realization
Consultant will start implementing the software in Development system.
DEV (Development) – All the development or customization is done in Development system.
Once the development part will be completed then changes will be moved into QAS through
TR (Transfer Request number)
QAS (Quality) – In Quality only testing related part is done
PRD (Production) – Business will run in production system.
Final Preparation
Consultant will offer for UAT (User Acceptance Testing) to the client and after taking
approval from client consultant will move the changes in PRD.
Go-Live
Users of Tata Motors will start working in SAP system.
Consultant will provide free of cost support to client for 1 month from the date of Go-Live.
Shared support -> Errors will be shares with a ticket and that will be chargeable.
Ticket priority
P1 – Very High – Solving time – 1-2 hrs – 17000 / HR
P2 – High – Solving 8 hrs – 9000 Rs / HR
P3 – Medium – solving hrs 1 day – 7000 / HR
P4 - Low – solving hrs 2 days - 5000 Rs / HR
Roll-out - > If any company is already working in SAP and they want to implement a small part then
that will be a roll out project.
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Enterprise Structure
Company
Sales office
Sales Group
Company -> It is an organization which will provide physical goods or service to the end customer.
Company Code -> Company code is a legal entity and G/L (General Ledger) account is created with
reference to company code. There will several G/L accounts as per different type of transactions.
Sales Organization -> Sales organization is a separate organization from where the entire sales and
marketing is handled.
Distribution channel -> It is a medium through which material reaches from company to end
customer. For ex, dealer, retailer, wholesaler, amazon, etc.
Division -> It is a product or a group or product. For ex, Fevicol, Fevikwik, Dr. Fixit, Roff, Hobby ideas
Sales Office -> Sales office is a place from where the sales person handling their sales as per territory
wise.
Sales Group -> Any team which is handling the sales is called as Sales group.
Storage location -> It is a place where the manufactured product or raw material is stored.
Shipping point -> It is an separate organizational unit from where the material is dispatched for the
delivery of the product.
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Jobs in SAP
1) Implementation
2) Shared Support
3) Roll out
1) Implementation –
There are 5 stages of implementation –
Project Preparation
Business Blueprint
Realization
Final Preparation
Go Live
Project Preparation – Senior management people from both sides Tata Motors and Infosys
they will discuss each other for the following points –
How much expense will be for the entire project?
What will be the implementation start date?
What will be the server cost and SAP cost and how many users are going to use SAP in
company?
Who will bear the travelling, food and accommodation cost of entire project team?
What will be the Go-Live date?
Who will be the representative from Tata Motors from each department?
Project preparation stage will take at least 1 month time to decide and finalize each and
everything.
Business Blueprint –
AS-IS -> Consultant will start gathering each and every information from the representative
of their respective department.
TO-BE -> Simultaneously, consultant will transform each and every gathered inform in SAP
form.
GAP Analysis - After gathering each and every information and transforming it into SAP,
consultant will discuss with Tata Motors representative and will do the changes if required.
Finally the time will come when each and every point will be confirmed and finalized.
Realization –
Consultant will start implementing in Dev system.
DEV (Development) – In development system all the development and customization related
work will be done. Whenever we will save any customization a TR (Transfer Request)
EIDK10004595 number will be generated.
QAS (Quality) – All the testing related work is done in Quality system.
PRD (Production) – All the live business are done in Product system.
Final Preparation – Consultant will provide UAT (User Acceptance Testing) in QAS system
and consultant will guide to user for the testing part.
And once the testing is confirmed by user and then consultant take a written approval from
user to move the TR in PRD.
Go-Live – All the changes will be moved in PRD before Go-Live date and from Go-Live date
users will start working in SAP.
After Go-Live consultant will provide free of cost service for 1 month to users.
2) Shared Support
On the daily business users will get some errors in PRD system and they would like help or
suggestion from consultant to solve those errors.
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Enterprise Structure
Company
Company Code
Sales Area
Sales Group
Company Code is a legal entity which is used to calculate the profit and loss statement. Several G/L
(General Ledger) accounts are created with the reference of company code. Company code is
relevant for FI.
Sales Organization – Sales organization is a separate organization which is responsible for the
handling of entire sales and marketing of the company. It is also responsible for the distribution of
product in the market. It is also responsible for the negotiation of pricing during sales and marketing.
It is SD relevance.
Distribution Channel – It is a medium through which the product of the company reaches from
company to end customer. For ex, dealer, distributor, wholesaler, Amazon, etc.
Division – Product or group of product is called as Division. For ex – Hinges, Channel, Handles, etc
Sales Group – Team who is working for sales and marketing is called as Sales group.
Plant – This is the place where the product is manufactured or stored is called as plant.
Shipping point – Shipping point is a place from where the material is dispatched for the delivery. For
ex – Rail, Road, Dock, Airport
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- Sales Area data – Sales, Shipping, Billing documents and Partner functions
Customer master data is created by SD and FI both people General data is common for both SD and
FI.
Sales Area Data is relevant for SD
Company code data is relevant for FI.
XD01 – General data, Sales area data and Company Code data
VD01 – General data and Sales area data
Account group – Account group is used to define the type of customer. For ex, Retail customer,
Industrial customer, Manufacturing customer, etc.
Partner function –
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Material master data consists all the information related to material. It is created with the help of
several modules like SD, MM, PP, FI, CO, WM, QM, etc.
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Inquiry
Quotation
Sales Order
Outbound Delivery (Picking, Packing and PGI)
Billing
Customer Material Info record is created with the combination of some specific customer with some
specific material.
Apart of this we can maintain the name of material which is called by customer also and that will be
displayed in Sales order.
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Inquiry – IN
Quotation – QT
Standard order – OR
Rush Order – RO
Cash Sale – CS
Free of charge delivery – FD
Credit memo request – CR
Debit memo request – DR
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Item category is used to denote the use of material in line item. In other words it is used to denote
the behaviour of material in a line item.
Item category also denotes that material is relevant for billing or pricing or not.
Item category determination = Sales document type + Item category group + Usage + Higher level
item category
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Schedule line category is used to define the delivery date and delivery quantity.
T-code to maintain the schedule line category – VOV6
For ex,
Schedule line category for Inquiry – AT
Schedule line category for Quotation – BV
Schedule line category for Standard order – CV
Plant Determination
Plant is determined in Sales document automatically as per the below criteria satisfied
i) System will try to find the plant in Customer Material info record, if it is not found here
then
ii) System will try to find the plant in Customer Master Data, If it is not found here then
iii) System will try to find the plant in Material Master Data
If plant is not maintained in any of the above criteria, then we need to enter the plant manually in
sales order.
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In which Shipping condition is maintained in customer master data -> Sales Area data -> Shipping tab
Loading group is maintained in Material master Data -> Sales General / Plant Data tab
Delivering plant is maintained as per plant determination
Complaints Processing
All of the above are order types and these are created with reference to sales order or billing
document.
We need to maintain the order reason and remove billing block for every complaints processing
sales documents.
Sales Order -> Delivery -> PGI -> Invoice -> Credit memo request with reference to invoice -> Credit
memo with reference to credit memo request
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Complaints Processing
Credit memo request – If more amount of money than invoice has been created in company account
then credit memo request will be created to credit the more amount to Dealer.
Debit memo request – If less amount than invoice is received from dealer then Debit memo request
is created to receive the amount of money which are less in invoice.
Return order – If any supplied material is found damage then return order is created to take it back
in company the damage material.
Subsequent delivery free of charge – If certain amount of material is found damage during
transportation, then company will take back to the damage material and will re-delivery the material
quantity which were found damage with free of charge delivery.
Free of charge delivery – If any sample is delivered to customer then it is supplied as a free of charge
delivery.
Cancellation of billing document – Due to any reason if we need to cancel the billing document then
with reference to existing billing document, cancellation document will be created.
Except cancellation of billing document and Free of charge delivery, rest all are created with
reference to sales order or billing document.
Sales Order -> Delivery -> PGI -> Invoice -> Credit memo request with reference to Invoice (VA01)->
Credit memo with reference to credit memo request(VF01).
Sales Order -> Delivery -> PGI -> Invoice -> Return order with reference to Sales order -> Return
delivery with reference to Return order -> Post Goods Receipt -> Credit for Return
Sales Order -> Delivery -> PGI -> Invoice -> Return order with reference to Sales Order -> Return
Delivery -> Post Goods Receipt -> Sales order (order type – SDF) with reference to Return order ->
Delivery with reference to SDF order.
Credit memo request
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Immediate delivery is created for Rush order and Cash sales because in RO and CS order type
Immediately “X” is maintained.
Material Determination
When we will create from material T-AS101, then substitute material T-AS103 will be automatically
exchanged in sales order.
Create condition table – Condition table is created as per the fields which are required to maintain
the condition record. Condition table can be created between 501 – 999 because SAP has not
allowed customization between 1- 500.
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Free Goods
We need to create the condition technique for Free Goods and then we need to create condition
record.
Condition technique
- Create condition table
-Maintain Access Sequence
-Condition type
- Procedure
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Consignment Processing
Consignment Fill up – 10 – 6 = 4 + 2 = 6
Consignment Fill up – When the material of the company is supplied to dealer to keep it as a stock
only and the owner of the material is company only. Billing will not be done in favour of dealer.
Consignment Return – If any material which was sold to end customer is found damage then end
customer will return the damage material to dealer.
Return order (CONR) + Return Delivery + Post Goods Receipt + Credit for Return
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Consignment Processing
Consignment Fill-up -
Item category - KBN
Schedule line category – E0
Consignment Issue
Item category - KEN
Schedule line category – C0
Consignment Return
Item category - KRN
Schedule line category – D0
Consignment Pick up
Item category - KAN
Schedule line category – F0
Copy Control
Copy Control is used to copy the entire data from source to target.
A – Sales document
L – Delivery document
F- Billing document
There are three level where ever the source is sales document
Header level
Item level
Schedule line level
There are two level where ever the source document is delivery or billing
Header level
Item level
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Return Order
Sales Order -> Outbound delivery + PGI -> Invoice -> Return order with reference to Sales order ->
Return delivery with reference to return order + Post Goods receipt -> Credit for Return
Return order – RE
Return delivery – LR
Billing type - RE
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Whenever we send any samples to our client at that time company offers free of charge delivery.
Process flow -> Sales order (OR) -> Outbound delivery + PGI -> Invoice -> Return order (RE)with
reference to Sales order -> Return delivery with reference to return order + PGR -> Subsequent
delivery free of charge order (SDF) with reference to return order number -> outbound delivery with
reference to subsequent delivery free of charge order
VA01 (OR) -> VL01N -> VF01 -> VA01 (RE) with reference to VA01(OR) number -> VL01N (Return
delivery) -> VA01 (SDF) with ref to VA01 (RE) -> VL01N
In third party item category TAS is used and item category group BANS is used.
When we create sales order (VA01 & Item cat - TAS)Purchase Requisition is automatically
created in schedule line.
With reference to Purchase Requisition we create Purchase Order. (ME21N)
Third party will give invoice to supplier. (MIRO)
Supplier will give invoice to Customer (VF01)
Partner Determination
There are 4 types of partner function for the partner type Customer KU –
- Sold-to-party
- Ship-to-party
- Bill-to-party
- Payer
Process Flow
O2C -> Inquiry -> Quotation -> Sales order -> Delivery +Picking+ PGI -> Invoice
Rush order -> Sales order + Immediate Delivery -> PGI with ref to Delivery -> Invoice
Consignment -
Consignment Fill up – Sales order -> Delivery + Picking + PGI
Consignment Issue – Sales order -> Delivery + PGI -> Invoice
Consignment Return- Return order -> Return Delivery -> Post Goods receipt -> Credit for
Return
Consignment Pick up -> Sales order -> Return delivery
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IN – inquiry
QT – Quotation
OR – Sales order
Delivery type – LF
When we enter into the sales order type OR, then deliver type is maintained in sales order
type.
Delivery denotes which type of delivery will be function with the reference to sales order
type.
Billing type
Sales order reference billing – F1
Delivery related billing – F2
Cash Sales – BV
Invoice Cancellation billing type – S1
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Usage 5 is used to create the bill of material for sales and distribution process.
One company has placed an order for 10 PC. And he has said that he need bill on the basis
of components
Main Material – PC
Components – Keyboard, Mouse, CPU, Monitory, Hard disk
There are two types of item category group which are used in BOM –
ERLA – Pricing will be calculated for main item only and not for sub item
Item category for Main item – TAQ
Item category for Sub item - TAE
LUMF – Pricing will be calculated for sub item and not for main item.
Item category for Main item – TAP
Item category for Sub item – TAN
Component
T-ATA01
T-ATF01
T-ATG01
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Account Determination
There are seven categories which are assigned to maintain the account determination –
All the above categories are assigned with G/L (General Ledger) account.
Account assignment group of customer is maintained in customer master data -> Sales area
data -> billing documents tab
Account assignment group of material is maintained in Material master -> Sales org 2 tab
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Scheduling Agreement
Contract
Contract is also a type of agreement which is done between customer and supplier.
Quantity contract - QC
Value contract – WK2
Create contract from VA41 -> Create Sales order from VA01 with reference to Contract
number -> Delivery -> Billing
In Scheduling agreement we enter the delivery date and delivery quantity as per
customers choice.
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Route Determination
It is a combination of
Shipping condition is maintained in customer master data -> Sales area data -> Shipping tab
Transportation group is maintained in Material master -> Sales General/Plant tab
Route – 000003
Transportation zone - D000060000
Transportation group - 0001
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We need to create condition technique and then we create condition record in sap for
pricing.
Condition technique –
Condition Table – V/03
Access Sequence – V/07
Condition type – V/06
Pricing Procedure – V/08
Customer Pricing Procedure
Document Pricing Procedure
Pricing Procedure Determination – OVKK
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Text Determination
When we want to display text in sales document, delivery document or billing document then
we need maintain the text determination.
We can maintain Text Determination in
Customer material info record
Customer master data
Material Master Data
Sales document
Delivery document
Billing document
Text can be maintained in Header and item details both individually for sales document,
delivery document and billing document.
Output Determination
Output determination is used to send the information from one partner to another partner.
Condition technique is needed to be maintained for output determination and then output
condition record will be created.
To maintain output determination we need help of ABAP also because technical person will
create Program and SMARTFORM.