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Intercompany Sales Process
Intercompany – Company codes of the same organization
Sales – Selling of goods from one company code to another company code of the same organization.
| Customer 1000 & Material 5000 | |
| Company Code 1234 | Company Code ABCD |
| Sales Org 1234 | Sales Org ABCD |
| Plant P123 | Plant PABC |
- Customer 1000 punch an order to Sales org 1234 for the material 5000
- Sales org 1234 find the material 5000 is not available in plant P123
- Sales org 1234 decides to purchase the material 5000 from Plant PABC of Sales org ABCD
- Since Company Code 1234 and Company Code ABCD belong to the same organization the above movement refers as Intercompany process in SAP
Hence Receiving sales org will be 1234 and suppling Sales org will be ABCD. Mentioned below the configuration steps to implement the above business process.
Configuration Steps :
STEP 1: Intercompany Document type
Assign Intercompany document type to Sales document types in order to use the Intercompany sales process
Path: SPRO – IMG- Sales and Distribution –Billing-Intercompany Billing – Define Order types for Intercompany billing
STEP 2: Plant Assignment
i) Assign Supplying plant to Suppling sales area (i.e.,) PABC plant will be assigned to ABCD AB AB sales area. This would be done in enterprise structure assignment and the same can be seen in the below path.
Path: SPRO – IMG- Sales and Distribution –Billing-Intercompany Billing –Define Organizational Units by Plant
ii)Assign the Supplying plant to receiving Sales Org and Distribution Channel.(i.e.,) PABC plant will be assigned to 1234 12 12 sales area
Path: SPRO- IMG- Enterprise Structure-Assignment- Sales and Distribution-Assign Sales Organisation-distribution channel-plant
STEP 3: Internal Customer Creation
i) Since Sales Org 1234 is requesting the Sales org ABCD to deliver the material, Sales Org 1234 will become a customer to Sales Org ABCD. Hence create Customer XYZ in sales org ABCD
XD01 – XYZ for ABCD AB AB Sales area
ii)Assign the created customer XYZ to sales org 1234
Path: SPRO – IMG- Sales and Distribution –Billing-Intercompany Billing –Define Internal customer number by the Sales organization
Conclusion :
This completes the configuration steps for Intercompany Process.
Now the Sales org 1234 will be able to supply the material from PABC plant to end customer
Hi,
Thanks for your explaination.
i have question about step3: create internal customer.
i understand sales org 1234 will be a customer to sales org ABCD.
i thougth i can create a customer of sales org 1234, and after that i can assign to ales org ABCD.
My question is:
why you create customer XYZ of sales org ABCD and assign it to sales org 1234?
i'm a new learner of SD, i will appriciate if you can explain it clearly 🙂
Thanks in advance.
Best Regards,
Laimy
Hi,
Customer XYZ (represented as sales org 1234) is created in sales org ABCD and assigned to sales org 1234.
Because, when you create billing document for sales order, payer will be determined from the Sales order.
But when Intercompany Billing is generated, Payer will be sales org of sales order (which is XYZ). In intercompany billing document, sales org 1234 will be determined as intercompany sales org and from there Payer (XYZ) will be determined.
So, the customer assigned at sales org 1234 will be the payer for the billing document created in sales org ABCD.
In customer invoice payer will be determined from sales document partner details but in intercompany billing, payer will be determined from sales org of sales order (we do not have functionality to have payer at inter-company billing from sales order).
Regards,
Parveen Tanwar