Assignment of Sales Orders

Use

It is necessary to assign SD sales orders to profit centers in order to reflect receivables, sales revenues, and sales deductions on profit centers.

Start of the navigation path The profit center assignment is also passed on from the sales order through the supply chain: sales order Next navigation step delivery note goods issue billing document End of the navigation path . This means that the when a goods issue is posted, the corresponding revenue value for the goods is also passed on to the profit center of the sales order (see Transferring Data from Sales and Distribution ).

Sales orders are divided into header data and item data. Each order item is assigned separately to a profit center, since this is the finer level of detail.

The system proposes the profit center of the material in the supplying plant as the default profit center. Consequently, you usually do not need to enter a profit center manually. This default supports both a product‑oriented and geographical division of your organization into profit centers.

Note Note

You might want to divide your company into profit centers according to a sales-oriented structure. In that case, you can define substitution rules in Customizing of classic Profit Center Accounting or new General Ledger Accounting . The system uses these substitution rules to determine the profit center from sales orders. You also need to activate these substitutions for each individual controlling area.

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Activities

In the application menu, you assign sales orders as follows:

For classic Profit Center Accounting under Master Data Current Settings Assignment: Sales Orders
For new General Ledger Accounting, under General Ledger Master Records Profit Center Current Settings Assignment: Sales Orders

For information on how to assign sales orders, see Customizing for classic Profit Center Accounting or for new General Ledger Accounting , under Assignments of Account Assignment Objects to Profit Centers .