Location Determination in the Sales Order 

Use

When an item relevant for the availability check is entered in a sales order in CRM Enterprise, depending on the system you use as an ATP system – location determination is performed automatically either in SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization (SAP APO) or in SAP R/3 Enterprise. After the location (delivering plant) has been determined in the ATP system, it is transferred to the sales order in CRM Enterprise. Availability check is carried out in the ATP system based on this location.

Prerequisites

The following minimum system requirements apply:

●     For availability check using SAP APO:

○     SAP CRM 2.0

○     SAP APO 2.0

●     For availability check using SAP R/3

○     SAP CRM 4.0

○     SAP R/3 4.6

Other prerequisites are listed under Location in the Sales Order.

Location determination uses the condition technique. For this purpose, the following data is transferred from CRM Enterprise to the ATP System:

Organizational data

Table Name	Table Field	Field Description	Field Name in SAP APO	Field Description in SAP APO
CRMD_ORGMAN	SALES_ORG	Sales organization	VKORG	Sales organization
CRMD_ORGMAN	DIS_CHANNEL	Distribution channel	VTWEG	Distribution channel
CRMD_ORGMAN	DIVISION	Division	SPARTE	Division
CRMD_ORGMAN	SALES_GROUP	Sales group	VKGRP	Sales group
CRMD_ORGMAN	SALES_OFFICE	Sales office	VKBUR	Sales office

 

Customer Master Data

Table Name	Table Field	Field Description	Field Name in SAP APO	Field Description in SAP APO
CRMD_PARTNER	PARTNER_FCT = SOLD_TO	Sold-to party	KUNNR	Sold-to party
CRMD_PARTNER	PARTNER_FCT = SHIP_TO	Ship-to party	PKUNWE	Ship-to party
ADRC	COUNTRY	Country of destination	LLAND	Destination country (country to which goods are sent)
ADRC	REGION	Region (State, province, county)	LREGIO	Supplied region
ADRC	TRANSPZONE	Transport zone to or from which the goods are delivered	PZONE	Transportation zone of ship-to party
CRMD_SALES	CUST_GROUP1	Customer group 1	KDGRP	Customer group

 

Material Master Data

Table Name	Table Field	Field Description	Field Name in SAP APO	Field Description in SAP APO
CRMD_ ORDERADM_I	ORDERED_ PROD	Product name specified	MATNR	Product number

 

Shipping data

Table Name	Table Field	Field Description	Field Name in SAP APO	Field Description in SAP APO
CRMD_SHIPPING	INCOTERMS1	Incoterms (part 1)	INCO1	Incoterms (part 1)
CRMD_SHIPPING	SHIP_COND	Shipping conditions	VSBED	Shipping conditions
CRMD_SHIPPING	DLV_PRIO	Delivery priority	LPRIO	Delivery priority
CRMD_SHIPPING	PART_DLV	Partial delivery control	AUTLF	Complete delivery defined for each sales order

 

Procedure

The location is determined for each confirmation schedule line in the sales order as follows:

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       1.      The ATP system determines a default location based on the item category.

       2.      The item category has an ATP profile assigned to it.

       3.      For ATP check with SAP APO:

The ATP profile in CRM Enterprise is mapped to the requirements profile in SAP APO.

For ATP check with SAP ECC:

The ATP profile is used to specify that the item category is relevant for ATP check.

       4.      The requirements profile is used to control the ATP check, which includes determining the default location.

For more information, see the SAP Library for SAP Supply Chain Management under SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization ® Global Available-to-Promise (Global ATP) ® Advanced Availability check Methods ® Rules-Based Availability Check.

       5.      The location is automatically entered in the sales order as a business partner with the role Vendor.

For information on how to set this up, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) for Customer Relationship Management under Basic Functions ® Availability Check:

○     Availability Check Using SAP APO

○     Availability Check Using SAP ECC

If you make certain changes to a sales order item, such as the product, the quantity, or the item category, then availability check is carried out again in this location.

Example

The following figure shows how the location is determined when using SAP APO as the ATP system:

 

If rules-based ATP check is used, then the system can continue to find the product from other locations to fulfil the requested quantity.

For more information on rules-based ATP check in SAP APO, see the SAP Library for mySAP Supply Chain Management under SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization ® Global Available-to-Promise (Global ATP) ® Advanced Availability Check Methods ® Rules-Based Availability Check.

For more information about rules-based ATP check in CRM Enterprise, see Rules-Based Availability Check in the SAP Library for mySAP Customer Relationship Management.

Activities

To see the location for the header or an item in the sales order, choose the Partner tab.

You can change the location if there are no checked deliveries for the item or one of its subitems.

For more information, see Location – Entering Manually in the Sales Order.

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See also:

Location in the Sales Order

For more information about

business partners in SAP CRM, see SAP Library for Customer Relationship Management at Components and Functions ® Master Data ® Business Partners

Business partners in SAP R/3 Enterprise, see SAP Library for SAP R/3 Enterprise at SAP R/3 Application Components ® Cross-Application Components ® SAP Business Partner