This document is related to the SAP Master Data (SD Module)

1. Company
LOGO
Master Data
Sales & Distribution

2. Topics
1. Introduction
2. Customer Master
3. Material Master
4. Condition records

3. Customer Master
 Master data in SD
 Customer Master
 Material Master
 Condition Records
 Customer Master – It is created in coordination with
Finance function.
 Material Master – It is created in coordination with
Materials Management function.
 Condition Records – They are mainly created for Pricing.
Others include output records.

4. Customer Master
 Customer account group is necessary to create
customers as per classification.
 Main Account groups
 Sold-to party
 Ship-to party
 Bill-to party
 Customer Account group controls
 Customer number range
 Display / restrict data in the customer master screens
 Customer Master data is divided as below
 Company code data – Data related to Financial accounting
 Sales Area data – Data controls sales document processing through
order, delivery and billing stages
 General data – Data common across all company codes and sales
area

5. Customer Master
 Company code data – It is maintained by Finance
department and key data for payment processing in FI
accounting is captured. Key data is
 Terms of payment
 Reconciliation account
 Sales area data – It is maintained for Sales area. It is
divided among sales, shipping and billing data
 Sales data – Key data is as below
 Currency in which customer should be billed
 Pricing related data

6. Customer Master
 Shipping data – Key data is as below
 Shipping condition (Needed in the determination of Shipping
point)
 Delivering plant (To default in the sales order)
 Partial delivery agreement
 Billing data – Key data is as below
 Incoterms
 Account assignment group
 Tax data
 Partner function, Text data can be maintained for
customer master

7. Material Master
 Material master maintains key sales data to process material in the
sales order processing. Sales data is maintained for a sales
organization and distribution channel.
 Key data is as below
 Delivering plant
 Tax data
 Quantity specifications
 Item category group
 Availability checking rule
 Shipping data like transportation and loading group
 Material can be restricted for a distribution channel or all distribution
channel for a specific period. Reason could be material is under
development or the sale of the material is not allowed through a particular
distribution channel.

8. Material Master
 Division can be maintained in material master and
thereby restricting usage of material for other sales
areas. This is controlled via customizing.
 Among other important data maintained in sales view of
material master, Product Hierarchy can also be
maintained. This is used to group materials by combining
various features. This is a powerful feature for analysis
of materials in groups.

9. Condition records
 Condition records allow to store data in system and use
it in sales documents.
 Condition records are maintained for Pricing and Outputs
among others.
 For Pricing, pricing elements in business like discounts,
prices, freight & surcharges data is stored in condition
records.
 For Outputs, the condition records are maintained to
trigger automatically various outputs like Order
Acknowledgement, Shipping notification, Invoice output.