High- Level Specification

Functional Overview

For the fulfilment of Intercompany Consignment Fill-Ups, the line item storage location must be determined in the consignment fill-up (and not the subsequent delivery as per SAP standard) and the supplying plant for the subsequent Intercompany Purchase Order (IC PO) must be defined. This is required to ensure:

1. The stock passes through the correct storage location as defined by the finance and tax requirements - in this case, a virtual customer specific location specifically for Intercompany Consignment Fill-Ups will be used.

2. The subsequent IC PO order can be correctly triggered with the correct source and receiving plants.

Therefore this enhancement should include:

1. The creation of a custom table in SAP where the storage location & supplying plant can be defined by a combination of sales org, distribution channel, plant, ship-to party & material.
2. The update of storage location in the Consignment Fill-Up.
3. The triggering of an IC PO where relevant.

The set up of entries in the custom table will be the trigger for the consignment fill-up to be fulfilled using an intercompany PO. If no entries exist in this table then the consignment fill-up will be fulfilled using the standard non-intercompany process from the default plant and the storage location will be defined as standard.

The document type 'KB' will be used as the criteria to define a consignment fill-up - this is the only viable option as there are no other indicators that a sales document is for consignment purposes (such as document category). In theory the movement type associated with the schedule line type could be used - as this is unique for consignment - but this may slow down the speed of the update. 

Scope and Objectives

The scope of this development will cover all consignment fill-ups created in SAP S/4 - both China and RoW instances.

Process Flow Diagram 

This system enhancement is only applicable for the highlighted L5 step below:

The following SAP applications and transaction codes are in scope for this enhancement:

SAP Fiori

• Manage Sales Orders – Version 2 (app ID - F3893)

  • Create Sales Orders

  • Change Sales Orders

SAP GUI

• Sales Orders

  • VA02 – Change Sales Order 

Assumptions

This development is designed for the expected consignment fill-up type of 'KB'. The consignment fill-up type 'KBB' should not be included here as the process may not be compliant in Brazil.

In the unlikely scenario that new consignment fill-up types added then these need to be added into the logic above.

This development is only intended for use within a single instance - either RoW or China. This will not apply for multi-instance solution - the expectation is that this process will be manual between Row <> China.

Dependencies

Definition of the relevant storage locations and plant assignment.

Set up of relevant purchasing organisations to sales organisations for intercompany processing.

ERP-1371 - Getting issue details... STATUS has been successfully implemented.

ERP-1301 - Getting issue details... STATUS has been successfully implemented.

Security, Integrity and Controls

Should follow the standard authorisation requirements of the sales order

Configuration Requirements

n/a

Language Requirements

No Specific language requirement - the solution should support the SYWAY language approach.

Special Requirements

n/a

Design Rationale

Functional Requirements within Consignment Fill-Up

1. Define new custom fields to hold IC PO no and line item no: 

WITHIN CONSIGNMENT-FILL UP - CREATE

1. Determine Storage location & update intercompany consignment relevance in lines items:

• • If sales document type (VBAK-AUART) = 'KB' then on the initial creation, if a new line item is added or if plant VBAP-WERKS is changed in the line item then read custom table in ERP-1371 and update sales order line item with the defined storage location (VBAP-LGORT).

  • Determine and insert the storage location into VBAP-LGORT by using:
    • Sales org (VBAK-VKORG)
    • Distribution channel (VTWEG)
    • Plant (VBAP-WERKS)
    • Ship-to party (VBAP-KUNWE_ANA)
    • Material (VBAP-MATNR)
  • In custom field Z_IC_CONS_SOURCE_PLANT default 'Y'.

2. Trigger creation of IC PO on save of IC Consignment Fill-Up:

• • If conditions below completed then create IC PO - 1 PO line item per consignment fill-up line item as per ERP-1301.
    • Incompletion log shows header and item complete.
    • Line item has intercompany source plant (Z_IC_CONS_SOURCE_PLANT = 'Y')

WITHIN CONSIGNMENT FILL-UP - CHANGE

• Determine if changes can be made to the IC Consignment Fill-Up

  • At line item, if Z_IC_PO_DELIVERY = 'Y' then no changes allowed to the line item - line should be greyed out and display only.

  • If Z_IC_PO_DELIVERY not equal to 'Y then check if changes made to either material quantity VBAP-KWMENG or customer required delivery date VBAK-VDATU.

  • If changes made and  incompletion log shows header and item complete update as below:

Document Flow

Custom item level fields will be defined in both the consignment fill-up and IC PO. These fields will be used to maintain the document flow between the 2 documents. These fields are specified in ERP-1301.

1 consignment fill-up should always relate to 1 IC PO only. Any applicable updates to the material quantity & requested delivery date in the consignment fill-up should also update the original IC PO and not create a new IC PO. As per the logic above, if a delivery has been created for the IC PO then no updates should take place.

Rational for why standard SAP not sufficient

This enhancement is required because standard SAP only allows the determination of the storage location within the delivery document rather than the sales order. Additionally, no supplying plant can be defined in the standard master data for this process. Therefore, without this enhancement, each time an intercompany consignment fill-up is created, the user would have to manually add the storage location for all relevant line items. Furthermore, if consignment fill-ups created by EDI then the correct storage location would not be added without manaul intervention.

Proposed Technology to Use

Tech team to confirm - fall back plan  is user exit - USEREXIT_SAVE_DOCUMENT_PREPARE within standard SAP S/4 program MV45AFZZ.

Data Source Considerations

n/a

Data Validation Considerations

n/a

Custom Tables

Required custom application table entries below using the attributes of the standard SAP object (e.g. VKORG, WERKS etc) as specified. These entries are maintained in FS ERP-1371 within the CSR business role.

Processing Logic

Volumetrics

Approx 600 consignment fill-ups per year across all GBUs will be intercompany consignment.

Performance Considerations

n/a

Error Handling

Testing

How to Test

For the required business function, this test must be run in 2 x parts:

 - Part 1 for the master data customer table defined in ERP-1371

 - Part 2 for the functional requirement in the intercompany consignment fill-up as specified in this document.

Test Conditions and Expected Results - Storage location definition

Test Considerations

ERP-371 must be implemented before ERP-1370 can be tested. 

Other Information

Development Details

Package

Enhancement Implementation

Other Development Objects

Appendix

Custom Authorization Group Naming Convention

This table is based on the Syensqo development standards document. It provides the naming conventions for authorization groups to associated with custom reports and tables to comply with security requirements.

See also

Change log