Change Sales DocumentsThis function is used to change sales documents.
It is part of the
Order
menu and can be accessed using standard access and central access.
Caution
You cannot change a sales document in classified order entry.
See also: Classified Order Entry
The type of business transaction that you want to replicate in the system determines which access you choose here.
Document processing access |
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Business transaction
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Central access |
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Change a sales document with reference to existing sales documents for a business partner. You want to create a complaint or a cancellation for an ad order. You do not normally know the identification key of the sales document. See also: Central Access |
Standard access |
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Change a sales document without reference to existing sales documents for a business partner. You want to change the ad spec data in an ad item or enter a service item for an ad order. You know the identification key for the sales document. See also: Standard Access |
A sales document is to be changed. This change can involve data in a commercial item or entering a complaint or cancellation for an additional document item in a sales document.
You have created sales documents.
If changes to sales documents are to be logged, you have defined the circumstances in which change documents are created during the order update in Customizing:
Activity |
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Define cases in which change documents are created during the order update. |
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Change sales documents
Data in existing document items can be changed or new document items can be entered here.
See also: Creation of Document Items
See also: Change Document Items
You can change sales documents as follows in standard and central access:
Document processing access |
Change sales documents |
Standard access |
If you have specified the sales document identification key on the initial screen, the header detail document processing screen appears. You can create a document item from this screen. |
Central access |
If you have specified unique selection criteria for determining business partner master data on the selection screen, an item overview screen appears. You can select and change a sales document from the item overview screen. If you have specified selection criteria for determining business partner master data on the selection screen that were not unique, the business partner overview screen appears. You can determine the sales document required from the business partner overview. |
Note
If you change data in a document item, the system also generates new sub-items, schedule lines and billing datasets for this item.
See also: Change Document Items
Create change documents
Changes to sales documents can be logged in change documents. These documents describe the history of changes that have been made.
If you have specified that change documents are to be created for sales documents in Customizing, these change documents can be displayed as follows in document processing:
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Display change documents |
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Change documents are sorted in ascending order by the name of the person who made the change and the time and date at which they did so.
Note
Note that changes are only logged for fields in which the indicator for creating change documents has been selected in the data elements.