Foreign Trade Data in SD Documents

Definition

Data that describes the export or dispatch characteristics of a sales and distribution (SD) transaction.

Structure

Foreign trade data appears at the header and item levels in sales orders, outbound deliveries and billing documents. The customer and material master records propose some of this data. The system determines other data based on the route or the item category.

Foreign Trade Data in SD Document Headers

Data	Description	Comments
Payment guarantee data (sales orders only)	Payment guarantee procedure Financial document number
Partner data	Ship-to party The ship-to party key Country key The ship-to party’s country key	The system copies this data from the sales order.
Customs data (deliveries and billing documents only)	Mode of transport The technical customs term describing how (for example, by sea or air) the goods are taken across a national border Office of exit The key for the customs office at the border, where the goods are loaded onto the mode of transport with which they will cross the border Inland (domestic) mode of transport The type of transport used from the delivering plant	The system determines this data based on the route if the appropriate setting has been maintained in Customizing (Table 617). The system adopts this data as default values in deliveries and billing documents.

Foreign Trade Data in SD Document Items

Data	Description	Comments
Material data	Material The material key for the delivery item or billing document item Description A description of the material in the delivery item or billing document item Batch (only in deliveries of batch-managed materials) The batch number of the delivery item Commodity code	The system copies this data from the material master record.
Origin (deliveries and billing documents only)	Country of origin of the merchandise Region of origin of the merchandise	The system copies this data as default values from the material master record.
Transaction	Export procedure Standard code that identifies a customs procedure by which the goods in dispatch / export transactions are reported for foreign trade statistics Business transaction type A specification necessary for declarations to the authorities such as reporting import/export within the EU or the US	With the appropriate settings in Customizing, the system determines the transaction data automatically based on criteria like the export-import group or the item category. The system then copies the data to the delivery and billing documents.
Value (sales orders and billing documents only)	Statistical value The value of the goods including transportation and insurance costs that arise in the exporting country	The system calculates the statistical value during Pricing in the underlying sales order and billing document. You can change how the system calculates the statistical value for the item if the billing document has not yet been posted to the Financial Accounting (FI) application component.