Business Process of
Sales and Distribution
- Using SAP ERP
Introduction
Sales and Distribution (SD) is one of the core and most-used modules of SAP R/3 products beside Financial (FI),
Controlling (CO), Material Management (MM) and Production Planning (PP) modules.
The main areas covered by SD module are:
Pre-sales activities, including Inquiry and Quotation creation.
Sales Order processing, including Sales Order (SO) creation.
Shipping, including Outbound Delivery document creation.
Billing, including Billing document and invoice creation.
Consignment Process, including Consignment fill up, issue, return and Pickup.
Contract & Scheduling Agreements.
Credit & Debit Memo requests.
Rush Order & Cash Sales.
SAP SD Organization Structure
Processes in Sales and Distribution
Components in SD Module
The SD module consists of various components. Some of the basic components of the SD (Sales and
Distribution) module have been listed below:
Master data
Basic functions subdivided into multiple components, such as pricing, output, and so on and so forth.
Sales
Shipping
Transportation
Localization
Foreign trade
Billing
Sales support
Electronic data interchange
Sales and Logistics Information systems
Integration between SD and Other Modules
It is one module which has linkages with all the other modules including FI, CO, MM, and PP.