Store Order (SAP Library - SAP Apparel and Footwear (SAP AFS))

Multi-Store Order

Use

Your customers may include large corporate groups that have many of their own stores or stores dependent on them. You can keep up normal business relations with all of the stores of such a corporation, if the stores and the superior corporation take on the same functions, for example, as sold-to party, ship-to party, payer, etc.

In addition, you can accommodate orders from a corporation, in which the corporation

orders goods for direct delivery to its stores. Here, the corporation specifies how many pieces of a certain material each store is to receive.

orders goods for direct delivery to a special distribution center, which then takes over the actual delivery to the stores. The distribution center can in this case be identical to the corporation or a certain store. Even in this special case, the corporation has made certain specifications as to which materials in which quantity each store is to receive. You must flag the delivery in your warehouse such that it is easy to recognize what and how much each individual store should receive, so that the distribution center can forward the goods as fast as possible.

Features

The Multi-Store Order (MSO) as Entry Aid

You are no longer limited to a maximum of one ship-to party in the document for each multi-store order, but rather you can enter as many stores of the sold-to party as you like.

You now have additional options for mapping the relationships between your sold-to party and their stores. While entering the stores in an MSO document, the system checks if these stores are also assigned to the sold-to party. This check is run independently of whether you transfer data via EDI or create the document manually. In this manner you can make sure that, even with a multitude of stores, the sold-to party of your MSO is actually authorized to order goods for each of its stores, and that a store is authorized to receive goods from a purchase order of the sold-to party.

You can group the stores according to certain criteria by combining them in various MSO mixes. This way, even with a large number of stores, the document remains clear.

The complete functionality of a standard order is available in the MSO document as well. This way you can, for example, be certain that you have enough material available to supply all stores on the requested delivery date of the sold-to party.

In case of stock shortage, you can use distribution rules to influence how much of a material you actually assign to each store.