SLS: Master Data and Customizing (SAP Library

SLS: Master Data and Customizing

Master Data

Article master data for SLS

Technically speaking, an SLS is an additional. Both the customer and the vendor has to create a separate article master record for the SLS, as in the case of any other regular additional (see also Additionals: Articles for Additionals).

Assigning SLS to an article

In the customer's SAP System, the SLS is entered as an additional in the article master of the article to be procured.

In the vendor's SAP System, the SLS is assigned to the sales order as an additional. Usually, SLS data in a purchase order received by EDI is copied to the sales order.

You can only assign an SLS a procedure for additionals that has been assigned a suitable follow-up action in Customizing (in the control tables of the applications). The follow-up action provided for pre-packing in the standard system is 85.

Check for SLS relevance

If you want the system to check if a particular vendor can perform an SLS, you have to maintain the procedure for additionals in the vendor master record in the mass maintenance function of the Additionals menu.

Example: all articles ordered from a particular vendor are to be pre-packed by the vendor

If you have never ordered the goods pre-packed before from the vendor but you want to order them pre-packed always in the future, you have to maintain the master data as follows:

Via the article mass maintenance function, you assign all the vendor's articles the required SLS with the suitable procedure for additionals.
When a user creates a purchase order, if you want the system to check if an SLS assigned to an article to be ordered is relevant for the vendor, you have to activate the relevancy check (see above).

Customizing

In Customizing for Merchandise Distribution, you have to maintain a service profile for SLS. Technically speaking, a service profile is a procedure for additionals. For sub-items to be able to be generated or maintained for SLS, you have to assign an SLS follow-up action to the procedure for additionals in the application control tables for each document type and event (for example, application: Purchasing; Document type: Purchase order; Event: Create). The standard system contains follow-up action 85 for handling sub-items for pre-packed goods. For further information, see Additionals: Control.