SAP S/4HANA Order Management Guide
Overview
This guide helps you create a sales order, freight order, outbound delivery, and invoice in SAP so that you can implement the Salesforce OMS to ERP Integration use case.
Before You Begin
Submit a ticket on SAP for Me to request activation of the following scope items in your Central Business Configuration (CBC) provisioned S/4HANA Cloud Essentials tenant:
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Manual Transportation Planning (6W2)
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Transportation Execution (6W3)
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Freight Settlement (6W4)
For more information about how to complete the ticket, see the Scope item activation request for CBC provisioned S/4HANA Cloud Essentials tenant knowledge base article on the SAP support site.
Generated SAP Documents
Completing the steps in this guide generates the following documents:
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Sales Order
A contractual agreement between a sales organization and a sold-to party to deliver products or provide a service at a set price, quantity, and time.
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Freight Order
The order that a carrier or shipper plans to execute, containing the logistical processing plan, vehicle departure times, and order execution data.
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Outbound Delivery Order
Contains the data that is required to trigger and monitor the outbound delivery process.
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Billing Document
The invoice that is created for an outbound delivery and requests payment from the customer who placed the order.
Create a Sales Order
Follow these steps to create a sales order in SAP:
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Search for the Create Sales Order - VA01 app.
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Enter OR in the Order Type field.
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Press Enter.
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Enter the customer identification number in the Sold-to Party field.
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Enter the customer identification number in the Ship-to Party field.
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Click the Display header details icon () and verify that the Shp. Cond on the Shipping tab is set to TM - Int. Planning, which enables SAP to create a freight unit automatically. The freight unit is used when the freight order is created.
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Enter the product identification number that you are including in the sales order in the Material column of the All Items section.
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Enter a value in the Order Quantity field.
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Press Enter.
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Click Save.
Copy the sales order ID, which you’ll need in the next steps.
Create a Freight Order
Follow these steps to create a freight order in SAP:
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Search for the Transportation Cockpit app.
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Select ERP Document and paste the sales order ID into the Freight Unit Stages field.
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Enter an asterisk in the Vehicle Types field.
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Click Continue.
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Select the freight unit of the sales order in the Freight Unit column.
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Select the truck type in the Trucks field.
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Click Create Road Freight Order in the Freight Unit Stages field and then click Save to create the freight order.
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Click the freight order number to open the order details and then complete the Vehicle Type, Carrier, Purchasing Organization, and Purchasing Group fields.
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Enter an amount in the Base FTL - Flat Rate field on the Charges tab and then click Save.
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Select Send to Carrier from the Subcontracting dropdown on the Statuses tab.
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Then, select Set to Confirmed by Carrier from the same Subcontracting dropdown.
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Select Custom Fields from the All Tabs icon () and complete the Tracking Number field.
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Click Save.
Create an Outbound Delivery
Follow these steps to create an outbound delivery in SAP:
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Click the Create Deliveries tab and then click the Document Flow tab.
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Select the box for each document that is related to the freight order.
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Open SAP S/4HANA in a new tab and search for the Change Outbound Delivery app.
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Enter the outbound delivery number from the Create Deliveries tab in the Outbound Delivery field and then press Enter.
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On the Picking tab, enter the same value in the Picked Qty column that’s in the Deliv. Qty column to update the status in the OvrllPickStatus and Warehouse Execution fields.
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Select Post Goods Issue from the Menu dropdown to trigger the
Outbound Delivery API (DELIVERY_REQUEST_OUT)
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Return to the freight order and click Refresh to update the status fields on the Statuses tab.
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Click the Edit button.
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Select Set to Ready for Transportation Execution in the Execution Status dropdown to update the value in the Execution Status field to Ready for Transportation Execution.
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Select Set to Departed in the Execution Status (Source) dropdown in the Stages section.
Create an Invoice
Follow these steps to create an invoice in SAP:
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Search for the Create Billing Documents - VF01 app.
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Enter the outbound delivery number in the Document column of the Documents to Be Processed table and then press Enter.
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Click Save.
View Your Documents
Follow these steps in SAP to view the documents you created:
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Search for the Manage Sales Order Version 2 app and then filter by the sales order ID.
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Click the sales order ID in the Sales Orders table to open the order details.
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Click Process Flow to view the documents you created.