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[Former Member]

Hi ,

Can anybody explain me the terms with example

1. G/L Account and account assigment.

2. Sales Area , Distribution Channel and Division

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Ramya

[former_member188827]

ur query 'll b better answered on FI/CO and SD forums

[Former Member]

Hi

GL account : The G/L account number identifies the G/L account in a chart of accounts.

Account Assignment:Means what are the related GL accounts and cost objects for that application documents

Sales Orgn: An organizational unit responsible for the sale of certain products or services. The responsibility of a sales organization may include legal liability for products and customer claims.

You can assign any number of distribution channels and divisions to a sales organization. A particular combination of sales organization, distribution channel, and division is known as a sales area.

Distribution Channel:The way in which products or services reach the customer. Typical examples of distribution channels are wholesale, retail, or direct sales.

You can maintain information about customers and materials by sales organization and distribution channel. Within a sales organization you can deliver goods to a given customer through more than one distribution channel.

You can assign a distribution channel to one or more sales organizations. If, for example, you have numerous sales organizations, each sales organization may use the "Wholesale" distribution channel.

Division:A way of grouping materials, products, or services. The system uses divisions to determine the sales areas and the business areas for a material, product, or service.

A product or service is always assigned to just one division. From the point of view of sales and distribution, the use of divisions lets you organize your sales structure around groups of similar products or product lines. This allows the people in a division who process orders and service customers to specialize within a manageable area of expertise.

If a sales organization sells food and non-food products through both retail and wholesale distribution channels, each distribution channel could then be further split into food and non-food divisions.

Sales Area: Sales Orgn, Distribution channel and Division put together are known as Sales area in SD module

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Anji

[Former Member]

Hi,

1) Financial Accounting (FI)

A structure that records value movements in a company code and represents the G/L account items in a chart of accounts.

A G/L account has transaction figures that record changes to the account during a posting period. These figures are totals that are used for G/L reporting.

-> GR is booked on G/L account (e.g. "stock" or usage"

-> Invoice is booked on vendor - vendor is assigned to a reconciliation account, which is a G/L account

2) cost centre

Controlling (CO)

An organizational unit within a controlling area that represents a defined location of cost incurrence.

The definition can be based on:

Functional requirements

Allocation criteria

Physical location

Responsibility for costs

-> cost centre is assigned in purchase order and fi-document to Profit and loss (P/L) -accounts, which are G/L-accounts too.

Refer:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/47/60f7a749f011d1894c0000e829fbbd/frameset.htm

<b>DIVISION:</b>

Most probably u are asking about the significance of header division and item division in the sales order.

Header division belong to the division to which the customer belongs to and item division is the division to which the materials in the sales order belong to.

The division at the item level can differ from the header as customer can buy goods from any division.

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