Creating a Sales Order in FICO

Use

In this first step you receive an inquiry from a customer and create a sales order. This document is an SD document and does not yet lead to posting in Financial Accounting. It is, however, the basis for sales processing as a whole.

Procedure

1. Call up the transaction as follows:

Menu Path	Logistics ® Sales and Distribution ® Sales ® Order ® Create
Transaction Code	VA01

2. Enter the following data:

Field	Europe	North America
Order type	OR	OR
Sales organization	1000 (SD org. Germany)	3000 (SD org. USA)
Distribution channel	10 (end customer sales)	10 (end customer sales)
Division	00 (cross-divisions)	00 (cross-divisions)



The division 00 is used to simplify the entry. The correct allocation of a sales order to a division does not occur until the product ordered is entered on the following screen. The correct allocation is made by default, so that it is possible to create articles from different divisions in one sales order.

3. Choose .
4. Enter the following data:

Field	Europe	North America
Sold-to party	1000	3000
Purch.order no.	Anything (informative entry)	Anything (informative entry)
Purchase order date	Today’s date	Today’s date
Req.deliv.date	Proposed by system	Proposed by system
Pricing date	Proposed by system	Proposed by system
Material	P-109	P-109
Order quantity	2	2
(Sales unit) SU	PC	PC

5. Note the required delivery date proposed by the system.
6. Choose .
7. In the dialog box, double click on customer 1000 (IDES-DE) or 3000 (IDES-US).
8. Confirm any messages with .

After the document entries have been processed, the net sales price of the sales items entered appears in the top right field net value. Furthermore, a description of the material ordered is displayed.



If the material ordered is not available at the requested delivery date, the system automatically branches to another screen with availability information. Here, you can select a delivery option (e.g. delivery proposal). The system then returns to the order overview screen.

9. Select your item, then choose .

The system displays the earliest delivery date for the ordered quantity in the Delivery proposal area.

10. Note the date and select One-time delivery.

Further details regarding availability information can be found in Sales Order Processing and Subsequent Functions

11. Choose .
12. Note down the order number.
13. Choose until the overview tree appears.

In the Exit Order Processing dialog box, choose No.