Create an MDC sales order using transfer pricing

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Life cycle of transfer pricing processing in an MDC sales order

The following table illustrates the life cycle of transfer pricing processing in an MDC sales order (i.e. from the point of view of an MDC BtB direct delivery to the end customer). The definition of the statuses have not changed and are the same as in normal processes.

MDC demanding company					MDC supplying company
Sales order	ST	Purchase order	ST		Sales order	ST
Enter an MDC/BtB sales order of type direct. Use the MDC availability enquiry function to retrieve dispatch date and purchase price from supplying company.		Purchase price will be automatically retrieved from sales price in supplying company and will be updated on the sales order line when entered in the system.
The sales order line for the end customer has been entered into the system.	10	The purchase order is automatically created using supplying company’s sales price as purchase price. This purchase order is then sent to the MDC supplying company.	20	->	Sales order is automatically created.	10
			10		Sales price on the order line is changed due to some reason	10
		Purchase order line gets automatically updated with new purchase price.	10			10
—	—	—	—	—	The pick list has been printed.	30
—	—	—	—	<-	The pick list has been confirmed. (The purchase order confirmation is sent.)	45
The sales order line is ready to be invoiced.	45	The purchase order has been received.	60		—	—
The invoice to end customer has been printed.	60	—	—	<-	The MDC invoice to the demanding company has been sent.	60

Note: How your system updates the status of your sales and purchase order depends on the setting in the Auto reception conf field for the supplier in the Business partner file.

Scenario: You will enter a BtB direct delivery sales order to be delivered from your supplier to your end customer. The sales order type and its corresponding MDC purchase order type is as follows:

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Select the Work with sales orders menu item.
You access Work with sales orders, Header view. Click Add.
You access Work with sales orders, Create new. Complete the following fields:

Handler
Customer number
Order type: Enter a BtB direct sales order type with direct MDC purchase order creation.
Cost centre

Click OK.

You access Work with sales orders, Order lines, where the sales order lines are entered. Complete the following fields:

Item: Enter the MDC item.

Quantity: Enter the quantity of the item that you wish to order.

Disp dt: Enter the date that you wish the goods to be dispatched. The system automatically defaults today’s date.

Click the Func list function key and select function 34, MDC availability from the function list.

You access the MDC availability enquiry displaying information about the MDC supplier, quantity available and purchase price, etc.

The purchase price displayed in the panel is the sales price of the supplier calculated as per the quantity selected. You can change the quantity in the Requested quantity field to view if the price differs as per quantity. Click the row to accept the supplier and other details for this order.

You return to Work with sales orders, Order lines with the updated quantity and selected supplier. Click OK. A validation of the sales order line will then be performed (against item, unit, quantity and dispatch date) in your main MDC supplying company’s system.

What to do next
Once this sales order is completed it can still be modified by following the instructions detailed in Modify an MDC sales order

Viewing the sales order
You can also view the MDC information, that is linked to the sales order, via the Sales order enquiry. The results of the enquiry would be as follows:

The following fields provide information on the correlating sales orders that are in each of the DC1 company systems. Note: If no information is displayed in these fields, then the sales order has been created with errors in the MDC supplying company’s system and will need to be corrected.

Supplier: The MDC supplier from whom the item was ordered.

BtB order type: The sales order type from the Sales order type table that is used in the transaction.

From comp: The MDC company that the supplier represents (from the MDC control file).

MDC SO nbr: The corresponding sales order number in the MDC supplying company. This is the number of the sales order that was automatically generated in their system.

PO number: The corresponding purchase order number. This is the number of the purchase order that was automatically generated.

Whs su cmp: The warehouse that the MDC supplying company will deliver the goods to.

MDC SO line: The MDC supplying company’s corresponding sales order line number.

PO line: The corresponding purchase order line number.

Crt in DI: Indicates if the MDC sales order was created in the MDC supplying company’s DI file (see Note above). Note: The sales order at this point is at status 20. It will only be updated by the supplying company when they print the pick list confirmation.

The MDC supplying company view
The MDC supplying company can also view MDC information for the sales order that was automatically generated in their system via the Sales order enquiry.

The following fields provide information on the correlating sales orders that are in each of the DC1 company systems.

To comp: The MDC demanding company that ordered the item.

MDC SO nbr: The corresponding sales order number in the MDC demanding company. This is the number of the sales order that automatically generated this sales order.

SO line: The corresponding sales order line number.

MDC SO nbr: The MDC demanding company’s corresponding sales order line number.

MDC PO number: The MDC demanding company’s corresponding purchase order line number.

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Life cycle of transfer pricing processing in an MDC sales order

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