Sales Document Types

You can control a sales document in customizing the sales document type. You can do these settings in the IMG screen. the menu path for definning the sales document type is :
IMG-->Sales and Distribution-->Sales-->Sales documents-->Sales document Header--> Define Sales document

The different control options in the sales documnt type is:

• Whether the reference of a preceding document is mandatory or not?
• Controls regarding the number range and item number increment
• From which number range should the document number for internal or external number assignment come?
• Whether the number range come from internally by the system or we need to enter it externally?
• Checks regarding Division, contract, open quotation and customer material info record
• Controls regarding credit limit check
• Which fields are relevant for the incompletion log?
• Delivery document type
• Shipping condition
• Controls regarding the delivery block
• Whether the goods need to be delivered immediately or not?
• Billing type (Delivery related billing type and order related billing type)
• Controls regarding the billing block
• Availability related controls,
• Control regarding the delivery date (whether the system need to propose a delivery date or not? if yes then how far it is in the future?).

Apart from these settings we also need to assign some basic functions to a sales document type like:

·         Partner determination

·         Material determination

·         Partner determination

·         Output determination

·         Free goods determination

·         Pricing determination

·         Delivery and transportation scheduling

·         Credit management

·         Incompleteness

·         Material listing and material exclusion procedures