Additionals: Application Integration 

Use

When events occur in the application (for example, when creating of purchase order), your system automatically finds the relevant additional and processes the data. In the application, additionals documents are updated which, for example, are then converted into additionals IDocs in follow-up actions. The SAP Retail Store can also be used in stores - additionals data can be requested manually and then used to generate labels.

Integration

Application

Examples of events

Documents used in the application

Purchasing

Create or change purchase order, request for quotation, quotation or scheduling agreement

Purchase order, scheduling agreement, request for quotation, quotation

Sales orders

(Sales)

Create or change sales order, request for quotation, quotation or scheduling agreement

Sales order, scheduling agreement, request for quotation, quotation

Deliveries

Create replenishment delivery for a warehouse order

Create inbound delivery for a shipping notification

Inbound delivery, outbound delivery, rough goods receipt

Goods movement

Post goods receipt in a distribution center or a store

Article Document

SAP Retail Store

Manual request for additionals data to be used for generating labels in stores

None

For more information about integration with the SAP Retail Store, see further information, see Additionals in SAP Retail Store.

Prerequisites

Additionals data is processed automatically in an application if you have maintained the procedure for the additional in Customizing. In the control table for the application concerned, you have to define the events and the associated follow-up actions.

Features

The following table illustrates the functions available for processing additionals automatically in the relevant applications: SAP Retail Store is not included in the table as you must trigger additionals processing manually.
 

Purchasing

Sales orders

Deliveries

Goods movement

Generation of additionals documents

X

X

X

X

Inclusion of costs in Pricing

X

X

  

X

Updating of costs in RIS

X

X

  

X

Processing of data online

  

X

    

Checking of assignment of additional to vendor

X

      

Checking of assignment of additional to customer

  

X

    

Example

The following table illustrates how you can use additionals to map real-world activities to the various applications:

Examples of use

Additionals data

Application

You order goods which you want pre-ticketed by the vendor.

Data for tickets

Purchasing

You order goods which you want pre-packed by the vendor.

Data and sub-items for supplementary logistics services (SLS)

Purchasing

A customer orders flowers. He wants every bouquet to have a personalized greeting card.

Greeting card data (including additional text)

Sales orders

In the distribution center, the merchandise is to be ticketed during the pre-packing process.

Data for tickets

Deliveries

Labels are to be printed and the merchandise ticketed at goods receipt in the distribution center.

Data for tickets

Goods movement

Certain labels are missing in a store. You use SAP Retail Store manually request additionals data, thus allowing you to print the missing labels.

Data for shelf-edge labels

SAP Retail Store