Processing Additionals 
Purpose
Use this business process to support sales and optimize article logistics.
Processes
The following processes depend on the specific application:
- Price marking in stores and distribution centers
- All types of price tickets, promotional posters and advertising materials can be assigned to articles as additionals.
- In goods movements (for example, goods receipts) you can generate additionals IDocs which trigger the printing of labels.
- In deliveries, you can generate an additionals IDoc based on picking. You can generate additionals IDocs when you create transport orders for deliveries.
- Change analysis can be used to analyze master data and movement data that is relevant for additionals. You can use change analysis to generate, for example, an additionals IDoc that is to be used for printing labels and posters at head office or in a distribution center.
- You can always request additional IDocs manually.
- Assortment lists inform stores about the additionals which they are responsible for attaching to merchandise. Assortment list IDocs contain data for shelf-edge labels.
- Vendor price marking: procuring and making additionals available in purchase orders from customers or merchants.
- Purchase orders inform vendors about the additionals which they are to attach to merchandise. Purchase order IDocs and forms contain information about the procedures for additionals that are to be used. Additionals data (for example, sales prices) are transferred to vendors in a separate additionals IDoc.
- Additionals data can be entered individually in the sales order for each order item. You can therefore enter the services provided by vendors. The additionals information contained in a purchase order IDoc is automatically converted into entries for additionals in sales orders at inbound processing.
- Private label management identifies additional articles (for example, sew-in labels, swing tickets, clothes hangers, sales packaging) using the additionals for a material. This then triggers the relevant follow-up actions.
- Controlling optimized merchandise flow in logistics
- In merchandise distribution, additionals function as SLS. Additionals ensure that, for example, cross docking processing is controlled in distribution centers.
- Recipients for whom merchandise is to be pre-packed, are normally stores in cross docking. Vendors receive customer data using a suitable additional.
Remarks
Generating and transferring additionals:
- This business process allows you to generate data for additionals either manually or based on various events. This data is always generated as an IDoc. If you have to print additionals (for example, price tickets), you must convert the IDoc before you proceed. Certified partner systems are available for printing labels. You can find further information on this in SAPNet (
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IS-ADP interface.
- It is not possible to send additionals IDocs to stores. Stores receive the information they require about additionals via the assortment list.
- All processes except the manual request are controlled by the procedure for additionals.
Customizing activities:
- Customizing information for additionals and procedures for additionals, can be found in the Implementation Guide (IMG), in the Logistics - General section, at the Additionals node.
Notes
In pricing, you can automatically include the material costs and handling costs for any number of additionals. For this, you must maintain conditions KAD0 for materials costs, and KAD1 for handling costs, for an additional.
- Info structure S108 enables you to analyze articles that require additionals. In the info structure, data for quantities, costs, and additionals procedure time can be updated using purchase orders, goods movements, and sales orders.
- Using additionals is not limited solely to the SAP Retail system. Additionals can also be used for industrial materials in the logistics processes that were mentioned previously.