Additionals 

Purpose

You can assign additionals to articles to ensure their effective presentation at sale. Alternatively, additionals can serve as logistics supports for your merchandise. Price tickets, security tags, clothes hangers, and shipping materials (in particular, for private labels) are all examples of additionals. You can use the additionals function to, for example, ask a vendor to attach price tickets to merchandise which you have ordered.

Services provided by vendors can also be regarded as additionals: pre-packing, pressing or arranging clothing on hangers for display can all be classified as additionals.   Pre-packing is a Supplementary Logistics Service (SLS) that supports logistics processes in Floor Ready Merchandise. For further information on SLS, see also: Supplementary Logistics Services (SLS).

The additionals component enables you to manage master data for additionals, transfer this data as an IDoc, and generate purchase orders for additionals. You can define a variety of events (for example, goods receipts) that will automatically trigger the generation of IDocs and purchase orders.

Implementation Considerations

Use this component if you wish to do the following:

·        Transfer price ticket data.

·        Generate purchase orders for labels automatically and place them with a labels vendor (imprinter).

·        Manage packaging, gum tabs or swing tickets that identify private labels with your own company’s logo or assign articles to the merchandise categories available in your distribution chains.

·        You can order pre-packed merchandise from a vendor.

Integration

Required function:	Required component:
Assign additionals to merchandise	Article
Assign additionals to articles in a promotion	Promotion
Generate additionals IDocs for purchase orders or delivery notes Generate additionals purchase orders for merchandise purchase orders	Ordering
Automatic enhancement of data and sub-items for SLS (for example, pre-packing) in a collective purchase order	Merchandise Distribution
Generate additionals IDocs for goods movements	Inventory Management, goods receipts
Generate additionals IDocs for deliveries	Logistics Execution
Generation of additionals IDocs for transport orders for deliveries	Warehouse Management (WM)
Generate additionals IDocs for sales orders Assign additionals manually to a sales order item	Sales order processing
Transfer data for additionals to stores via an assortment list IDoc	Assortments
Update the costs and time required for processing additionals	RIS
Group sites and customers	Classification

Features

The following functions available for additionals allow you to:

·        Assign more than one additional in article maintenance to every article that is to be sold. You can create multiple lines of text for every additional.

·        Define procedures for additionals in Customizing. These define how data for an additional is generated and where the additional is procured. They also define who is to affix additionals to merchandise (or combine them in some other way).

·        Have the system generate additionals IDocs when certain events occur (for example, “Creating purchase orders” or “Posting goods receipts”). The IDocs can be sent to a communications partner such as a distribution center, a vendor or a label supplier (imprinter).

·        If you want to place purchase orders for articles to be pre-packed using collective purchase orders, assign a relevant SLS for this in the additionals data in the article master. When you generate collective purchase orders, data and sub-items are automatically added to the SLS.

·        Transfer additionals data to stores using assortment list IDocs

·        Have the system automatically generate purchase orders for additionals (for example, for sending to an imprinter).

·        Have an external system retrieve additionals data in a partner SAP system using BAPIs. This allows an imprinter, for example, to request the most up-to-date data for the tickets directly from the retailer.

·        Query the planned purchase order volume for an additional using BAPIs.

·        Analyze additionals documents in the additionals monitor.

·        Automatically analyze changes centrally that affect additionals.

Constraints

To prepare additionals IDocs for printing, you need an external program that converts data into the relevant printer format.  For more information about this program, see the following path in SAPNet:

SAP.com > SAP Partners > Software Partners > Integration Opportunities > Interface Certification > mySAP Industry Solutions

 

Then click IS-ADP.

 

See also:

Background Processing: Additionals