Direct Customer Delivery (SAP Library - Process Flow Hierarchy)

Direct Customer Delivery

Purpose

This scenario describes the sale of articles that are not managed in your company as part of the inventory of the distribution center. On the basis of the SD document involved, the system generates a purchase requisition and then a purchase order for an external vendor. The vendor delivers the goods direct to the customer.

The following R/3 components are used:

R/3 component

Functions

Consumption-Based Planning

Managing replenishments for customers

Sales

Processing sales orders

Credit Management

Checking credit limits
Securing guarantee of payment for open items

Foreign trade

Carrying out export controls
Creating reports to send to the authorities

Purchasing

Creating purchase requisitions, creating and sending purchase orders/release orders

Invoice verification

Verifying and posting invoices, authorizing payment

Billing

Processing invoices, credit/debit memos and volume-based rebates

Process Flow

Requirements Planning

Based on sales data, you can plan replenishments for external customers and automatically generate sales orders.

Sales Orders

On the basis of an agreement which you have made at short notice to deliver articles to a customer, you enter a sales order in the system. In sales order processing, the purchase requisition can be created automatically by the system.

Risk/Credit Management

You can use the Credit Management function to check credit limits in different ways (statically or dynamically, for example). You can perform the check at various different stages in sales order processing: when you create the order, in the delivery or at goods issue, for example.

Foreign Trade

In foreign trade processing you can carry our export controls on the basis of export licenses and generate reports (Intrastat, for example) required by the authorities.

Ordering

Purchase requisitions
Purchase requisitions with specific source of supply can be converted into purchase orders, contract release orders or scheduling agreement schedule lines automatically or manually.

Purchase orders
You monitor the purchase order. The system can print reminders automatically if required, and you can then send these reminders to the vendors.

Invoice Verification

When you receive an invoice from the vendor you carry out invoice verification either

automatically in the background or
online
with reference to the purchase order and release the invoice once any discrepancies have been clarified.

Billing

The bill is drawn up on the basis of the vendor invoice or the shipping notification sent by the vendor.

You can use the invoice list function to send a payer a list of billing documents together on one date.

R/3 component	Functions
Consumption-Based Planning	Managing replenishments for customers
Sales	Processing sales orders
Credit Management	Checking credit limits Securing guarantee of payment for open items
Foreign trade	Carrying out export controls Creating reports to send to the authorities
Purchasing	Creating purchase requisitions, creating and sending purchase orders/release orders
Invoice verification	Verifying and posting invoices, authorizing payment
Billing	Processing invoices, credit/debit memos and volume-based rebates