| Types of Master Data in SAP
Sales and Distribution
Customer master data, Customer material information record,
material master data, Condition master, Common master, Additional master
data.
Customer master Data
The Customer
Master data divided in following categories.
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General Data: store centrally-Client specific, valid for
all organizational Units.
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Sales Area data
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Company Code data
It includes all necessary data for processing Order, Deliveries,
invoices and Customer Payment.
General data have following tab
pages
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Address: Name, Address, and Language.
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Control Data: Tax Information
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Payment Transaction: Bank Details
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Marketing: Industry, Customer Classification
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Unloading Point: goods receiving Hours
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Export Data: Data for export control
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Contact Person: Address of business partner
Sales Area data have following tab
pages
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Sales: Sales office, sales district, currency, customer group,
Customer pricing procedure, Price list.
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Shipping: Delivery, Shipping condition, Delivery Plant, POD
Relevance, Partial delivery-Check Complete delivery by law, Transportation
Zone.
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Billing: Incoterm, Term of payment, Credit control area,
Account Assignment Group, Tax.
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Partner Function: (Can different or Identical) Sold to Party,
Ship to Party, Bill to Party, Payer
Company Code data having on following
tab
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Account management: Reconciliation account
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Payment transaction: Payment method
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Correspondence: Dunning Procedure, Accounting clerk
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Insurance: Amount Insured
Any changes in the customer master do not get reflected in
documents created prior to the change except for ADDRESS.
Sales organization has to maintain own relevant sales
area data if they sell product to customer those belong to different sales
organization.
We can maintain the INCOTERM in customer master record
in various ways, depending on the sales area data.
Account group controls customer
master.
Master data proposal in sales
document
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Delivery date and tax information- From Ship to Party master
record
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Payment terms, Credit limit check- From Payer master record
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Address to which invoiced to send- From Bill to Party master
record
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Shipping conditions, Pricing, incoterms-From Sold to Party
Customer material information record
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Cross reference from your customer’s material no. to your
material and customer material description. By this sales order can be
placed with the customer’s material no. by using Ordering tab page
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It keeps information about Delivering plant, Customer material
no., and Delivery agreement-Complete/Partial
Material master data
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Basic data 1 (valid all module area)-Old Material no., Division,
Material group, Material group packaging material, Base unit of measure,
General item category group
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Sales: sales org. 1: Delivering Plant, Material Group, Division,
Condition, Tax data, Cash discount, Minimum Order quantity, Minimum Delivery
Quantity
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Sales: sales org. 2: Material group, Bonus Group, Product
hierarchy, General item category group, Item category group, Product attribute
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Sales: Gen/Plant data: Availability Check, Transportation
group, loading group, Batch Management, Material group packaging material,
Serial no. Profile
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MRP 3: Availability Check
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Plant/data storage 1: Batch management, Storage condition
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Plant/data storage 2: Serial no. Profile
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Foreign trade: Export: Export/ import group, Region of origin
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Sales Text: Item text for sale
Material Master is controlled by
Material Type |