sales order for pipeline material type..

[Former Member]

Hi All,

How can we raise the sales order for pipeline material..

Is schedule lines will be there for the sales order raised for pipeline material???

Rgds,

Pavan

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi

Seems you working on IS Utilities, please corerct if Wrong and if I am wrong to guess you are working on IS Utilities then the next story dosn't make any sence.

PIPEline material type is used for Materials such as oil, power, or water that flow into the production process directly from a pipeline, line, or other type of conduit. Since pipeline materials are always available, they are not planned.

To answer specifically what you asked would be as follows:

1. The fact that material type is PIPE from an SD standpoint is irrelevant

2. lets consider your PIPEline material is power, your UOM should be Kilowatt hours and establish price for it.

3. "deliver" the material and bill it.

However, taking the whole business context of sale of electricity into account why you want to sell PIPEline material without using IS Utilities. Typically electrical utiltity requirements have some unique challenges not easily met by SD:

1. Amount to be billed to the customer is from meter readings.

2. The bill to the customer ( at least in North America) is not so much of an invoice as opposed to statement of accounts that includes meter readings, consumption history etc.

I will suggest to look into IS Utilties first before getting into SD.

[former_member303858]

Hii,

ohh dear, you seems to be preety new to sap itself.. No problem.

I suggest is, to please try to go throiugh sap sd material, if you dont have any, you can get a book for sap sd its by Glynn Williams.

This will help you.

Regarding your query, you can raise sales order for any material, as long as they are created with all required details in sap. And ofcourse schedule lines also will be created..

Imp Suggestion - Before posting such basic querries please try to search in the forum or the net, etc.

Regards,

SB

[Former Member]

Hi,

Hope you are not getting my question properly...Whenever we raise a sales order for stock material,there will be schedule lines..

Whereas if you are working on non stock item like electricity,water and gas how can u provide the schedule line..

This is my question...Hope this is not basic...

Rgds,

Pavan.

[Former Member]

Hi,

electricity,water and gas

Electricity is intangible material that means it is service material so no need of schedule line

Gas/water are also service materials but some time it have schedule line

Now it is totally depends on your business

If it is utilities industry (Municipal corporation, electricity board etc) then do not have schedule line

Please explore industry solution for UTILITIES

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_utilities472/helpdata/en/c6/4dc54beafc11d18a030000e829fbbd/frameset.htm

Now if the industry is manufacturing/process industry and or sales mineral water in bottle and gas sale in tank then in this case schedule line will come as you have to physically deliver to customer, so you need do delivery.

kapil