Additionals: Application Integration 
Additionals: Application Integration
Use
When events occur in the application (for example, when creating of purchase order), your system automatically finds the relevant additional and processes the data. In the application, additionals documents are updated which, for example, are then converted into additionals IDocs in follow-up actions. The SAP Retail Store can also be used in stores - additionals data can be requested manually and then used to generate labels.
Application |
Examples of events |
Documents used in the application |
Purchasing |
Create or change purchase order, request for quotation, quotation or scheduling agreement |
Purchase order, scheduling agreement, request for quotation, quotation |
Sales orders (Sales) |
Create or change sales order, request for quotation, quotation or scheduling agreement |
Sales order, scheduling agreement, request for quotation, quotation |
Deliveries |
Create replenishment delivery for a warehouse order Create inbound delivery for a shipping notification |
Inbound delivery, outbound delivery, rough goods receipt |
Goods movement |
Post goods receipt in a distribution center or a store |
Article Document |
SAP Retail Store |
Manual request for additionals data to be used for generating labels in stores |
None |
For more information about integration with the SAP Retail Store, see further information, see
Additionals in SAP Retail Store.
Prerequisites
Additionals data is processed automatically in an application if you have maintained the procedure for the additional in Customizing. In the control table for the application concerned, you have to define the events and the associated follow-up actions.
Features
The following table illustrates the functions available for processing additionals automatically in the relevant applications: SAP Retail Store is not included in the table as you must trigger additionals processing manually.
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Purchasing |
Sales orders |
Deliveries |
Goods movement | |
Generation of additionals documents |
X |
X |
X |
X |
Inclusion of costs in Pricing |
X |
X |
X | |
Updating of costs in RIS |
X |
X |
X | |
Processing of data online |
X |
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Checking of assignment of additional to vendor |
X |
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Checking of assignment of additional to customer |
X |
Example
The following table illustrates how you can use additionals to map real-world activities to the various applications:
Examples of use |
Additionals data |
Application |
You order goods which you want pre-ticketed by the vendor. |
Data for tickets |
Purchasing |
You order goods which you want pre-packed by the vendor. |
Data and sub-items for supplementary logistics services (SLS) |
Purchasing |
A customer orders flowers. He wants every bouquet to have a personalized greeting card. |
Greeting card data (including additional text) |
Sales orders |
In the distribution center, the merchandise is to be ticketed during the pre-packing process. |
Data for tickets |
Deliveries |
Labels are to be printed and the merchandise ticketed at goods receipt in the distribution center. |
Data for tickets |
Goods movement |
Certain labels are missing in a store. You use SAP Retail Store manually request additionals data, thus allowing you to print the missing labels. |
Data for shelf-edge labels |
SAP Retail Store |