Shipping Data for Plants

[Former Member]

Path:  IMG-->Materials Management-->Purchase Order-->Set Up Stock Transport Order -->Define Shipping Data for Plants

Hi,

It might sound simple, but couldnot get the right answer, so posting it now/here.

After creating a plant, for STO settings we need to mention Sales Org, Distribution channel, and Division at the following path.

IMG-->Materials Management-->Purchase Order-->Set Up Stock Transport Order -->Define Shipping Data for Plants

My question: Which Sales Org, Distribution channel can we/should we assign here, because Plant & Sales Org + Distribution assignment is one to many.

Example:

Plant 1000 may be assigned to Sales Org S01 + DC1, S02 + DC2, S03 + DC3, S04 + DC4

So which one is appropriate at this path, because here you can mentioned only one combination

IMG-->Materials Management-->Purchase Order-->Set Up Stock Transport Order -->Define Shipping Data for Plants

Similary, which division should I choose here..IMG-->Materials Management-->Purchase Order-->Set Up Stock Transport Order -->Define Shipping Data for Plants.

Thanks.

[Former Member]

dear,

Kindly use a distribution channel exclusively for STO purpose, hope your issues will be resolved

Shibu Chandran

[Former Member]

Sorry to trouble you, but could you please look into my post.

[former_member182609]

You have to use one sales org one dist chanel and division.In this process you need to crete plant customer.

For e.g your case yo creted plant for this you need to crete plant customer through XD01 .while creting customer master you need give one sales org .You can choose any one but it shsame for all plants.

[Former Member]

Hi Sridhar,

Thanks for your reply.

My question is more about defining shipping data rather than master data.

1. What I am attempting to know is; a Plant can be assigned to multiple Sales Organizations + Distribution channels.  So which combination do we mention at IMG-->Materials Management-->Purchase Order-->Set Up Stock Transport Order -->Define Shipping Data for Plants.
2. Also, what division do we mention at the path above.

[former_member182609]

You can not use multiple sales orgnaisations for stock transport order.In plant have many sales org ,but you need to choose here one sales org and its dependent distribution hannel and division.

While creation of plant customer also you need to use the same.

[Former Member]

Not sure, if I am making my question understandable.My question is certainly not about master data creation.

What I am asking is: One Sales Org can have multiple Distribution Channels, and Multiple Divisions.

Example:

A plant P001 is assigned to Company code let's say C001.

one and only one Sales Org S001 is assigned to Company code C001(for the sake ).

S001 has DC1, DC2, DC3 distribution channels and DV1, DV2, DV3 divisions.

At this path: IMG-->Materials Management-->Purchase Order-->Set Up Stock Transport Order -->Define Shipping Data for Plants. I have no confusion on Sales org.

I am only confused about Distribution Channel and Division to be mentioned at the path above.

Because Enterprise Structure--->Assignment-->Assign sales organization - distribution channel - plant---- here we have multiple assignments for the same plant.

Am I confusing?

[prasanna_kumar4]

HI

I am not worked on STO , but may be you check with common division(00) and common Distribution Channel (00)

and also do the necessary settings for assignment parts and check the cycle

Regards,
Prasanna

[Former Member]

For stock transfer order u have to create a separate  distribution channel DV4 and a common division  00

With regards,

R.karthick

[Former Member]

Newbie,

Because Enterprise Structure--->Assignment-->Assign sales organization - distribution channel - plant---- here we have multiple assignments for the same plant.

Yes.  However, this is unrelated to the question you asked.

The DC and Division that you will use are business decisions.  You would use the same business decision logic to answer the questions (which SlsOrg?  Which DC? Which Div?)  that you would use for any other customer order, whether internal or external.

In SD, your company has an existing policy and methodology to decide which Sales org, distribution channel, and division you use, for each customer order that you enter.  I don't know what that methodology is for your company, but someone in your organization knows this.  This is a policy.  To support this policy, you have created many bits of SD configuration and assignments.

The 'origin' plant has to make these same business decisions, because he is going to 'sell' these products to his 'customer' (the destination plant).  In SD sales documents, you normally enter this information explicitly for every customer order, during the order creation document.  (See the first screen you enter during VA01).  Since STOs are essentially purchasing documents, there is no place in the Purchase order to enter Sales Org, Dist Channel, and Division.  So, this info is set into STO configuration and is determined, based upon the combination of source plant and destination plant (seller and customer).

As mentioned by one of the other experts, one (of many) option is to create Sales Areas and Division combinations that are used ONLY for STOs.  It is again is a business decision, relating to how you want to organize and report your STO delivery data.

Best Regards,

DB49