You can process customer orders that cross business-areas by assigning plants to sales organizations that cross company codes.

In our example, each plant (for the business areas of PCs, printers, and monitors) is assigned to a sales organization within that organization's company code. At the same time, all the German plants are assigned, cross-company code, to the appropriate sales organization that is, the one that is itself assigned to the company code for Germany-PCs.

For example, if a customer orders a branded PC and monitor, the order can be processed using Sales Organization 1.

• The branded PC is delivered from Plant 1 from its own business area, while the monitor is delivered from Plant 5 from Sales Organization 3 (Monitors).
• Sales Organization 1 creates the customer billing document for both order items.
• The customer pays Sales Organization 1 the amount he is billed for the branded PC and monitor.
• Sales Organization 3 sends an internal billing document to Sales Organization 1 for delivery of the monitor (since they have an internal customer-supplier relationship).