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Creation of a site.

Former Member
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Dear Friends,

                    While creating a site in WB01. Does it normally take us to customer creation after the Site data is saved?

If so what is the data to be filled for the customer ?

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amit_tunara
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Hi Jove,

In SAP IS Retail, Whenever Site is created its corresponding Customer and Vendor (only for DCs) will also get created. So once you complete the Site general data, SAP will prompt for creating a customer. Please note the below points which are to be followed to create a Site-Customer.

  • The Customer number should be given same as Site code for easy identification. For the same, you need to configure the number range for the Customer with external number range method and assign the same to Account group of Customers. There are standard Account groups available in SAP for Retail Stores and DCs. With external number range in place, you will be allowed to generate the same number as Site number for the customer.
  • The Sales area to which site belong, needs to provided in the initial screen of customer creation within Site master.
  • When the required parameters are given on Selection screen, press enter. System will ask for General data for customer, which you can provide if required or left blank.
  • You need to press Enter to navigate further for next screen of customer master.
  • Once the general data screens are completed, it will ask for accounting data for your site-customer. The important parameters here are Reconciliation account which will be used in FI posting. There can be other important parameter which depend company to company.
  • After accounting data, it will display Sales Data screen. Here important parameters are Customer Pricing, price list if it is used for Retail pricing, shipping conditions, Account Assignment group, tax classification etc. Here also you may have other important parameters depending on the individual's requirement.
  • After Sales data, the last screen will display the partner information which should be left as it is and press Enter to come back to Site data.

This will create Customer for your site. Please note if you are creating a DC (depending on the Site profile you are using), it will also prompt for vendor record.

For your second query of activating a company code for material management please follow the given steps:

SPRO: Logistics - General -> Material Management -> Basic Settings -> Maintain Company Codes for Materials Management

Here, you need to maintain the company code for which you want to execute the MM processes.

Please note you also need to maintain Site parameters for Inventory management.

Let me know if you need any other information.

Regards,

Amit

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Former Member
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Another query.. in Article creation : Areas of Validity, When I Enter the details of Sales org . Distr channel and store and continue it gives as error: Company code AG02 is not set up for Materials Management. Any Clue how to fix this?

amit_tunara
Active Contributor
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Hi Jove,

In SAP IS Retail, Whenever Site is created its corresponding Customer and Vendor (only for DCs) will also get created. So once you complete the Site general data, SAP will prompt for creating a customer. Please note the below points which are to be followed to create a Site-Customer.

  • The Customer number should be given same as Site code for easy identification. For the same, you need to configure the number range for the Customer with external number range method and assign the same to Account group of Customers. There are standard Account groups available in SAP for Retail Stores and DCs. With external number range in place, you will be allowed to generate the same number as Site number for the customer.
  • The Sales area to which site belong, needs to provided in the initial screen of customer creation within Site master.
  • When the required parameters are given on Selection screen, press enter. System will ask for General data for customer, which you can provide if required or left blank.
  • You need to press Enter to navigate further for next screen of customer master.
  • Once the general data screens are completed, it will ask for accounting data for your site-customer. The important parameters here are Reconciliation account which will be used in FI posting. There can be other important parameter which depend company to company.
  • After accounting data, it will display Sales Data screen. Here important parameters are Customer Pricing, price list if it is used for Retail pricing, shipping conditions, Account Assignment group, tax classification etc. Here also you may have other important parameters depending on the individual's requirement.
  • After Sales data, the last screen will display the partner information which should be left as it is and press Enter to come back to Site data.

This will create Customer for your site. Please note if you are creating a DC (depending on the Site profile you are using), it will also prompt for vendor record.

For your second query of activating a company code for material management please follow the given steps:

SPRO: Logistics - General -> Material Management -> Basic Settings -> Maintain Company Codes for Materials Management

Here, you need to maintain the company code for which you want to execute the MM processes.

Please note you also need to maintain Site parameters for Inventory management.

Let me know if you need any other information.

Regards,

Amit

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Thank you Amit.

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Hello Amit,

While creating an article , can we give the Distribution Center  or store details on the initial screen? I give the store and DC details , it gives as error in Green tick mark stating that Company code not setup for Materials Management. I am not sure of the Procedure about how to fix it. The path which you provided leads me to some page where there is no option to set it up for Materials Management.

SPRO: Logistics - General -> Material Management -> Basic Settings -> Maintain Company Codes for Materials Management.

Another Query ! Base unit is EA on Basic Data view but as m following IRT310 Course, the question is to put the alternative UOM as cartons and pallets with different set of Values. What is this about? For what purpose do we put the unit of Order as Carton?

Regards

Jove


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Hi Jove,

Depending upon the business scenario we will use different unit of measure..for example when we create purchase order,Vendor will agreed to deliver the article in Cartoon or in boxes..so in the article master record under the AUoM, we will maintain the ordering unit as carton specifying one CAR is equal to 100EA or 50 PC..The same will be maintained for the delivering unit..The same order unit of measure will get updated the purchase info record that maintained for the vendor-rticle.

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Thank you for your reply. Trying to understand it further..So here is an example. Is this Correct and what does each AuoM mean here?

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Hi Jove,

Your screenshot is correct...

Here the base unit of measure is EACH'es

The order unit of measure is CARTON...ie..equal to 24 EACH'es

You have maintained PAL..but not assigned any variable to it...

Here your distribution unit and sales unit is maintained as EACH'es

You can maintain different unit of measure as per the customer requirement.

Thanks

Kevin

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What do we mean by  'You have maintained PAL..but not assigned any variable to it...'? Variable . Does that mean to choose from those radio buttons?

Thanks

Jove

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Hi Jovit,

From your screenshot, it means that the AUoM PAL can either be marked as the distribution unit of measure or sales unit of measure,

Thanks

Kevin