Distribution Channel

[Former Member]

Can anybody provide me a detailed document on Distribution Channel. (What is the use of it. What is the role of an abap developer in it. What is the procedure involved init?)

[Former Member]

Hi Priyanka,

<b>Distribution Channel :</b> The distribution channel represents the channel through which salable materials or services reach customers. Typical distribution channels include wholesale, retail and direct sales.

<b>Use:</b> Within a sales organization a customer can be supplied through several distribution channels. In addition, the material master data relevant for sales, such as prices, minimum order quantity, minimum quantity to be delivered and delivering plant, can differ for each sales organization and distribution channel.

Generally distribution channels are defined from SPRO transaction.

The path to create distibution channel is Sales and distribution -> Master data -> Define Common Distrution channels.

Thanks,

Vinay

[Former Member]

What is the procedure involved in it? What is the role of an Abaper related to distribution channel? Are there any transactions involved in it?

[Former Member]

Hi Priyanka,

Generally distribution channels are defined from SPRO transaction.

The path to create distibution channel is Enterprise structure -> Definition -> Sales and distribution -> Define, copy, delete, check Distrution channels.

The created distibution channels are assigned to Sales organization.

Creation of distribution channels and assigning them to Sales organization is the job of Functional team ie SD Functional guys. There is no role for ABAP Developer here.

You will use this data in your reports to perform certain taks as per client requirement.

Plz reward all helpful answers.

Thanks,

Vinay

[Former Member]

Hi,

In SD Module, Sales Orgn(VKORG), Distribution Channel(VTWEG) and Division(SPART) are the Three higer level Orgn Units which together treated as SALES AREA.

Generally when ever you are creating Reports w.r.t to SD module these 3 fields will be on selection screen and data will be fetched based on these three fields.

Master tables for: is VKORG(SALES Orgn) is TVKO and for VTWEG(Dist Channel) TVTW and for SPARt(division) is TSPA.

Most of all Header related Transaction tables in SD cycle (VBAK,LIKP,VBRK,VTTK etc) consists of these three fields and when ever you are fetching data from these related transactions, you have to consider these fields in the header tables.

Hope this helps you to understand a lot.

Regards,

Anji

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Anji Reddy Vangala