Assigning Sales Orders
Use
It is necessary to assign SD
sales orders to profit centers in order to reflect sales revenues and sales deductions. The profit center assignment is also passed on from the sales order through the logical chain sales order ® delivery note ® goods issue ® billing document. This means that the when the goods issue is posted, the goods usage which corresponds to the revenues is also passed on to the profit center of the sales order (see Transfer from Sales and Distribution).Sales orders are divided into header data and item data. Each order item is assigned separately to a profit center, since this is the finer level of detail.
The system proposes the profit center of the product in the sender plant as the default profit center. Consequently, you usually do not need to enter a profit center manually. This default supports a product-oriented and geographical division of your organization into profit centers.
If you want to divide your company into profit centers according to a sales-oriented structure, you can define substitution rules in Customizing to determine the profit center in another way. The system lets you use any of the following fields from the sales order to determine the profit center for sales orders. You also need to activate these substitutions for each individual controlling area.
Activities
To assign sales orders, choose Master data
® Current settings from the application menu, then choose Assignment: Sales Orders.You can find a detailed description of how to assign sales orders in the Implementation Guide (IMG) for Profit Center Accounting, under Assignments to Profit Centers.