What's Relationship between Customer terms of payment in Company Code data and Sales Area data

[Former Member]

Hi, Gurus,

There are both terms of payment field under company code and sales area data.

My test result shows sales order will always take terms of payment from company code data, regardless payment terms maintained in sales area data.

Shouldn't it be the other way around? Because payment terms could be sales area specific.

Any help will be appreciated.

[sridhar_v · Accepted solution]

Hello Jay,

If you have tested, I also suggest you to go for test where in you would find the Terms of Payments in sales area data at Billing tab will be copied on to your billing.

So it suggests TOP from sales area data is relavent in Billing & TOP from company code goes to Finance.

To your assumption Sales area data TOP should have priority let me clarify you. Company makes policy and not sales organisation. So as per the general logic as well, and in hierarchial and functional aspects as well, company policies over ride all other policies.

Regards,

Sridhar.

[Former Member]

Hi, Sridhar and Rajiv, I did some other research and the answers are the same as you said.

However, I found out TOP are taken from company code data no matter it's for finance or for billing in my company's system. 

My guess is that it could be the IMG setting. Different company might have different situations so my computer might only take TOP from company code data for instance. Could it be that case?

[Former Member]

Hello Jay,

lets do one small testing. You can create an SO with the customer which has payment terms in company code data and not in sales area data. Create another SO with the customer which has payment terms in sales area data and not in company code data. Then make an analysis which SO gets the payment terms and which not. in std SAP there is no customize settings but there may be some custom development in your company otherwise system always considers the TOP from billing tab of customer master to copy into the SD document.

Rgds

Rajiv

[Former Member]

hI Rajiv,,

i do test based on your suggestions and i found some information...

Test1: remove the TOP in company code date and maintain 002 TOP in sales area--> billing tab.

System response: determined 002 TOR in sales order and billing document also.

Test 2: Maintain 003 TOP in company code date and maintain 002 TOP in sales area--> billing tab.

System response: determined 002 TOR in sales order and billing document also.

Test 3:maintain 002TOP in company code date and remove the TOP in sales area--> billing tab.

System response: system not determined TOP and as per my requirement, that sales order was in completed.

Now my question is what is the exactly use to maintain TOP in company code data??? and in what situation we are maintain???

Regards

Patchala

[joao_sousa2]

When you post billing documents directly in FI, the system reads the terms of payment from the company data, not sales data.

Rule of thumb:

• Company data -> FI;
• Sales data -> SD.

[Former Member]

Thanks for your reply joa,

I want little bit clarification on that..

1) if i am not maintain TOP in company code data, than for where system Read TOP when we post billing document to FI....???

2)if i maintain two different TOP`s in company code data and sales area data, in sales order system determine TOP from sales area data and when i post billing document to FI , if the system pick TOP from company code data as you said, the TOP will be different between order, billing and accounting document, will it not lead to data data inconsistency ????

Regards

Patchala

[joao_sousa2]

1) I need to make it clear, it's not "post documents TO FI". What I said was "post documents IN FI", there is no SD involved.

2) In a SD process the system will always use Sales Data TOP. What you maintain in Company data is irrelevant. Company data is only used for billing documents posted directly in FI transactions (FBXX).

[Former Member]

Hi Patchala,

whatever you tested thats the results I wanted to show that Sales Area Data is for SD usage and company code data is for FI usage.

to clarify your doubt there are lot many FI transaction where we dont have any involvement of SD then for those transactions system will always use company code data. for example you are selling some material X and you dont want to create sales invoice in this case TOP from company code ill be considered and in normal sales process where you create sales invoice TOP from Sales Area Data will be considered.

hope u r clear now.

Rajiv

[Former Member]

Hi,

Payment Term in company code data is for finance and in sales area data is used for billing means if you have Payment Terms defined in company code data system will not copy them in SO or other SD document because system will take the value from sales area data for SD documents.

Rgds

Rajiv Rana