Purpose
You can assign additionals to articles to ensure their effective presentation at sale. Alternatively, additionals can serve as logistics supports for your merchandise. Price tickets, security tags, clothes hangers, and shipping materials (in particular, for private labels) are all examples of additionals. You can use the additionals function to, for example, ask a vendor to attach price tickets to merchandise which you have ordered.
Services provided by vendors can also be regarded as additionals: pre-packing, pressing or arranging clothing on hangers for display can all be classified as additionals. Pre-packing is a Supplementary Logistics Service (SLS) that supports logistics processes in Floor Ready Merchandise. For further information on SLS, see also:
Supplementary Logistics Services (SLS).The additionals component enables you to manage master data for additionals, transfer this data as an IDoc, and generate purchase orders for additionals. You can define a variety of events (for example, goods receipts) that will automatically trigger the generation of IDocs and purchase orders.
Implementation Considerations
Use this component if you wish to do the following:
Integration
Required function: |
Required component: |
Assign additionals to merchandise |
Article |
Assign additionals to articles in a promotion |
Promotion |
Generate additionals IDocs for purchase orders or delivery notes Generate additionals purchase orders for merchandise purchase orders |
Ordering |
Automatic enhancement of data and sub-items for SLS (for example, pre-packing) in a collective purchase order |
Merchandise Distribution |
Generate additionals IDocs for goods movements |
Inventory Management, goods receipts |
Generate additionals IDocs for deliveries |
Logistics Execution |
Generation of additionals IDocs for transport orders for deliveries |
Warehouse Management (WM) |
Generate additionals IDocs for sales orders Assign additionals manually to a sales order item |
Sales order processing |
Transfer data for additionals to stores via an assortment list IDoc |
Assortments |
Update the costs and time required for processing additionals |
RIS |
Group sites and customers |
Classification |
Features
The following functions available for additionals allow you to:
Constraints
To prepare additionals IDocs for printing, you require an external program that converts data into the relevant printer format. For more information about this, see SAPNet (http://www.sap.com) enter the alias CSP and then select Scenarios/Interfaces ® Retail. Here you will find the IS-ADP (Retail - Additionals Printing) interface for additionals.
See also:
Background Processing: Additionals