Creating a Sales Order 

Usage

In the IDES scenario "Changeover Activities in Sales and Distribution" you converted the order currency for your customer from DEM to EUR. This customer now orders 10 pumps from IDES AG, for which you create a sales order.

Procedure

  1. Call up the transaction as follows:
    2.

    Menu Path

    Logistics ® Sales and Distribution ® Sales ® Order ® Create

    Transaction Code

    VA01; VA03

  2. On the Create Sales Order: Initial Screen, enter the following data:
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    Field

    Data

    Order type

    OR

    Sales organization

    1000

    Distribution channel

    10

    Division

    00

  3. Choose .
  4. On the Create Standard Order: Overview screen, enter the following data:
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    Field

    Data

    Sold-to party

    Your customer (with order currency euro in the master data record)

    PO number

    Any

    Material

    P-103

    Order quantity

    10

    Payment terms

    ZB01

    Pricing date

    01/01/1999

    The pricing date determines whether the old or the new pricing condition is to be used (DEM or EUR).

  5. Choose .

    6. If any warning messages appear, choose .

  6. Select the line item for your material, then choose . You see a detailed pricing for this material. You can also see that, with the exception of the currency translation rate, all of the rates are displayed in EUR.
  7. Choose to return to the overview screen.
  8. To see the header data of the sales document, choose Goto ® Header ® Sales.

    9. The sales document contains, for example, the document currency and the defined exchange rate. The document currency should be EUR and the exchange rate 1.95583. This rate corresponds to the fixed exchange rate between EUR and DEM, which has been defined in the TCURR table.

    If try to change the exchange rate (for example, by changing one or more of the decimal places) and choose . The system warns that you are deviating from the fixed exchange rate between EUR and DEM.

    Note that you can customize the error message text and change the importance from a warning to an error message.

  9. For purposes of this demonstration, change the exchange rate back to 1.95583.
  10. Choose .

    11. The system informs you that the order has been saved.

  11. Choose until the overview tree appears.