Sales Documents (SAP Library

Sales Documents

Purpose

This component allows sales representatives to create and track sales documents. The main focus of this component is on quotations and orders, but you can also use it to create and track other sales documents such as inquiries and credit memos.

By providing all the data you need, from initial contact with a business partner to placing an order, this component allows you to:

Support a business partner’s ability to make informed purchasing decisions
Close a sale immediately

Implementation Considerations

In general, sales document data flows as shown in the following diagram:

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Integration

To do this:	Use this component:
Display details of a campaign that has resulted in new orders	Campaign/Trade Promotion See Creating a Campaign
Display details of a listing that you want to use as the basis for creating sales documents	Listings See Creating a Listing, and Displaying Listings
Define a layout for generating and printing sales documents as Microsoft Word files	Document Generation (in Mobile System Maintenance) See Document Generation.

Features

In this component you can:

Check:

Which sales areas are valid for a sales representative
Order blocks
Deletion marks (for business partners, sales areas, and products or services)
Product availability

Generate sales document numbers
Copy sales documents
Configure items using the Sales Configuration Engine

Create activities related to sales documents
Resubmit sales document-related activities to your calendar

Perform accurate, up-to-date pricing with the latest state sales tax rates for the product using the Internet Pricing and Configurator

Speed up multiple item entry with the help of product hierarchy selection and flexible item proposal
Generate sales documents from campaigns
Generate sales documents as Microsoft Word files that you can print