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September 2013

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SAP Best Practices for Apparel and Footwear (SAP AFS)

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Contents

SAP Best Practices for Apparel and Footwear: Solution Scope .................................................... 5

1 Purpose ................................................................................................................................... 5

2 Functional Scope Functions ................................................................................................. 5

2.1 Warehouse and Inventory Management ....................................................................... 5

2.2 Forecast-to-Stock .......................................................................................................... 5

2.3 Order-to-Cash ............................................................................................................... 5

2.4 Procure-to-Pay .............................................................................................................. 6

2.5 Accounting..................................................................................................................... 6

2.6 Other ............................................................................................................................. 6

3 Functional Scope Supported Business Processes or Scenarios ......................................... 6

3.1 134 AFS: Stock Transfer with Delivery ...................................................................... 6

3.2 624 - Warehouse Management with Allocation Run ..................................................... 7

3.3 630 - Make-to-Stock for Apparel and Footwear Industry .............................................. 8

3.4 631: Make-to-Order Production w/o Variant Configuration for Apparel and Footwear Industry 9

3.5 632 - Inter-company and Cross-plant Production ......................................................... 9

3.6 634 - Production Subcontracting (External Processing) for Apparel and Footwear Industry 10

3.7 635 - Combined Production Orders ............................................................................ 11

3.8 AF9 - OEM Business Process in APA Countries ........................................................ 11

3.9 611 - Sales Order Processing with Allocation Run: Sale from Stock.......................... 13

3.10 612 - Cross-Company Sales Order Processing with Allocation Run .......................... 14

3.11 613 - Pre-Order Processing (Sales) ............................................................................ 15

3.12 614 - Rush Order Processing (Sales) ......................................................................... 15

3.13 615 - Sales Order Processing with Export Control ..................................................... 16

3.14 616 - Order to Cash with Packing and Transport Management ................................. 17

3.15 AF6 - Outsourced Manufacturing ................................................................................ 18

3.16 AF7 - Prepacks Order Processing (Sales) .................................................................. 18

3.17 620 - Finished Goods and Raw Materials Sourcing ................................................... 19

3.18 621 - Materials Subcontracting for Apparel and Footwear Industry ........................... 19

3.19 AF8 - Procurement with Quality Management ............................................................ 21

3.20 645 - Activate Document Splitting for Apparel and Footwear Industry ....................... 21

3.21 154 - AFS: Prereq. Process Step ................................................................................ 22


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SAP Best Practices for Apparel and Footwear: Solution Scope

1 Purpose This Solution Scope provides an overview of the processes and functions that are covered by SAP Best Practices for Apparel and Footwear and explains the business purposes of the delivered functions.

Under Functional Scope Functions, you will find a view arranged according to groups of functions and based on the relevant SAP Solution Map.

Under Functional Scope Supported Business Processes or Scenarios, you will find a scenario-based view of the functions.

The Solution Scope does not provide technical explanations of how to use the functions. For further information on this topic, see the Business Process Documentation documents.

2 Functional Scope Functions

2.1 Warehouse and Inventory Management

134 AFS: Stock Transfer with Delivery

624 Warehouse Management with Allocation Run

2.2 Forecast-to-Stock

630 Make-to-Stock for Apparel and Footwear Industry

631 Make-to-Order Production w/o Variant Configuration for Apparel and Footwear Industry

632 Inter-company and Cross-plant Production

634 Production Subcontracting (External Processing) for Apparel and Footwear Industry

635 Combined Production Orders

AF9 OEM Business Process in APA Countries

2.3 Order-to-Cash

611 Sales Order Processing with Allocation Run: Sale from Stock

612 Cross-Company Sales Order Processing with Allocation Run

613 Pre-Order Processing (Sales)

614 Rush Order Processing (Sales)

615 Sales Order Processing with Export Control


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616 Order to Cash with Packing and Transport Management

AF6 AFS - Outsourced Manufacturing

AF7 Prepacks and Assortments

2.4 Procure-to-Pay

620 Finished Goods and Raw Materials Sourcing

621 Materials Subcontracting for Apparel and Footwear Industry

AF8 QM in Sourcing

2.5 Accounting

645 Activate Document Splitting for Apparel and Footwear Industry

2.6 Other

154 AFS: Prereq. Process Steps

3 Functional Scope Supported Business Processes or Scenarios

3.1 134 AFS: Stock Transfer with Delivery

Purpose

This documentation gives an overview of how this scenario is processed from a business point-of-view. The scenario demonstrates Intra-company stock transfers as well as stock movements within the same plant. The internal procurement of materials can be carried out within one company code.

This process can be dealt with using standard functions such as material requirements planning, purchase requisition, stock transport order, transportation planning, and the handling of internal deliveries.

Process Flow

The following functions are provided to support the AFS Internal Stock Transfer with Delivery:

Creating stock transport order

Creating delivery for stock transport order

Creating Billing Document

Creating Excise Invoice

Stock Overview on SKU level


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Key Points

Supports all required documents for stock transfers with delivery

Supports all required master data aspects like batch management and serial numbers

Monitors stock in transit

Delivery costs can be entered in the stock transport order

3.2 624 - Warehouse Management with Allocation Run

Purpose

This scenario describes the processing procedure for goods in a distribution center, using a warehouse management system without Handling Unit Management, which covers following functionality:

Replenishment

Inbound Procedure

Outbound Procedure

Inventory

Process Flow

Replenishment

Create Transfer Requirement

Create Transfer Orders for the Transfer Requirements

Confirm Transfer Order

Display Storage Bin Stock

Inbound Procedure

Create Purchase Orders

Create Inbound Delivery

Post Goods Receipt for Purchase Order

Create and Confirm Transfer Order for Delivery Note

Displaying Storage Bin Stock

Outbound Procedure

Creating Sales Order

Executing Allocation Run

Creating Outbound Delivery for Sales Order

Creating and Confirming Transfer Orders for Deliveries


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Post Goods Issue

Display Storage Bin Stock

Inventory

Create Physical Inventory Document

Count Results

Clear Differences Warehouse Management

Clear Differences Inventory Management

Key Points

WM without HU

3.3 630 - Make-to-Stock for Apparel and Footwear Industry

Purpose

This scenario describes the processes involved in sales-order-independent production for the Apparel and Footwear Industry.

The scenario uses the AFS functionality, which is a comprehensive solution based on the ERP Standard, and is designed to meet the specific needs of the Apparel and Footwear industry. The AFS-specific features allow materials to be managed at the Stock keeping unit level (SKU). The materials are classified according to certain characteristic values, for example size, color and quality, which brings data to the lower level and influences the entire logistical process.

The basic data in the area of production planning and control, i.e. bills of material and routings, have also been modified to accommodate the requirements of the Apparel and Footwear industry. Bills of material and routings contain characteristic values of the corresponding materials.

Process Flow

Create planned independent requirements at the SKU level

Run material requirements planning (MRP) at the SKU level

Create production order at the SKU level

Release production order

Confirm production order / component consumption

Post goods receipt from production order

Carry out production order costing

Key Points

Perform production order processing

Execute production triggered by a production plan

Accomplish make-to-stock production process


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3.4 631: Make-to-Order Production w/o Variant Configuration for Apparel and Footwear Industry

Purpose

The scenario describes the processes involved in sales-order-dependent production for Apparel and Footwear Industry.

Process Flow

This scenario consists of the following steps:

Sales Order processing

Material requirements planning (MRP)

Production Order Processing

Posting the Goods Issues for all component quantities

Confirming Operations at the same time that are carried out

Posting the Goods Receipt for all quantities of the finished product

Delivery and Billing

Key Points

Sales-order-dependent production by MTO (make To order)

Production triggered by a sales order

Make-to-order production

3.5 632 - Inter-company and Cross-plant Production

Purpose

The scenario describes the process of manufacturing in two different plants in two different company codes. A semi-finished product is manufactured in a second plant which belongs to a different company code.

Process Flow

Planned independent requirements processing

Material requirements planning (MRP)

Make-to-stock production / production order processing

Inter-company procurement of semi-finished product from plant in different company code


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Key Points

Sales-order-independent production by MTS (make-to-stock) production / production order processing

Production triggered by a production plan

Make-to-stock production split on several plants in different company codes

3.6 634 - Production Subcontracting (External Processing) for Apparel and Footwear Industry

Purpose

This scenario describes the processes involved in sales-order-independent production with external operations for Apparel and Footwear Industry. An externally processed operation is an operation that is not performed in-house, but assigned to an outside vendor.

In this scenario, for the finished product that is manufactured internally, one of the individual operations in the production order is being carried out as an external operation. Examples of the most common external operations: cutting, embroidery, printing.

The external operation is setup in the routing, and is assigned to a vendor via an info record. The system automatically creates a subcontracting Purchase Requisition for the external operation. Subsequently, the requisition is converted into a purchase order, which contains the SKU data of the finished material. However, the PO does not display the material number. Components are provided to the vendor according to the PO requirements.

Later the vendor bills for the services provided. The invoice is entered with reference to the purchase order.

Process Flow

Create planned independent requirements at the SKU level

Execute material requirements planning (MRP) at the SKU level

Create production order at the SKU level

Release production order

Purchase requisition for the subcontracting operation is created

Convert purchase requisition to purchase order, provide components

Confirm production order / component consumption

Post goods receipt from production order / goods receipt for subcontracting purchase order

Carry out production order costing

Key Points

Perform external operation at subcontractor



Make external operation part of the production order

Create external operation PO at the SKU level

Provide components to the subcontractor

Perform goods receipt for the PO with the consumption of the components

3.7 635 - Combined Production Orders

Purpose

This scenario describes the production processes that involve combined Production Orders for Apparel and Footwear Industry. This function allows grouping several production orders that use the same component or have the same operation in the routing.

The scenario uses the AFS functionality, which is a comprehensive solution based on the ERP Standard, and is designed to meet the specific needs of the Apparel and Footwear industry. The AFS-specific features allow materials to be managed at the Stock keeping unit level (SKU). The materials are classified according to certain characteristic values, for example size, color and quality, which brings data to the lower level and influences the entire logistical process.

The basic data in the area of production planning and control, i.e. bills of material and routings, have also been modified to accommodate the requirements of the Apparel and Footwear industry. Bills of material and routings contain characteristic values of the corresponding materials.

Process Flow

Create planned independent requirements

Run material requirements planning (MRP)

Combine different Production Orders

Release Combined Production Orders at the same time

Post the Goods Issues for all component quantities from the Combined Orders at the same time

Confirm Operations at the same time that are carried out for the Combined Orders

Key Points

Combine several production orders sharing the same component or the same operation

3.8 AF9 - OEM Business Process in APA Countries

Purpose

In the APA (Asia & Pacific area) countries make To Order production accounts for the majority of

OEMs business. SAP AFS MTO is not sufficient to cope with all customer requirements. The

OEM production process has therefore been configured as a Make To Stock process with

flexible and dynamic category filling.



Production environment in the APA countries

The majority of companies in the apparel and footwear industry in the APA countries are Original

Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs).

Production environment in APA countries is customer driven: order related production cycles

account for the majority of OEMs business. This means that materials are customer-made and

are always produced, procured and kept in stock with specific relation to customer order: this

applies to finished goods as well as to raw materials.

Customer orders OEMs initially receive provide just the basic dates and the total amount of

styles ordered without carrying any information about sizes, colours, quantities, requested

delivery dates, ship to parties. These orders are so called greige orders (or greige contracts)

meant to reserve production capacities at an early planning phase. Based on these greige orders

production planning as well as the procurement process starts. At a later date, during the

season, customer specifies in detail which quantities of which materials / SKUs to which delivery

date for which destination he needs. Raw materials are procured accordingly and the production

flow begins.

Being a customer driven business process it is essential to guarantee the visibility of the

customer during the whole process: during the whole logistical chain starting from sales order

entry, to requirement planning, to procurement and finally to manufacturing there has to be a

clear link to the initial greige order of the customer. This is the main requirement in the

production process of OEMs.

SAP AFS categories

Dynamic category filling in a make to stock (MTS) production environment has been deployed in

order to retain flexibility yet benefit from the logistic link AFS categories provide along the

logistics supply chain.

AFS categories are used to logically segment requirements and stock. The category field is

dynamically filled through the customer name (sold-to party) and purchase order number entered

while creating the greige contract. This information is carried via category field through the entire

logistic chain, from the contract release orders to the order related procurement of raw materials

and production of finished goods.

Configuring the process using a make to stock scenario with categories all requirements of

OEMs production process can be met

Early planning with greige contracts with category field information inherited from follow-up

documents.

Visibility of the customer during the whole process via category field

Reserving stock for customer and flexible allocation of customer requirements to customer specific stock.

Process Flow

Creating a Sales Contract (Greige contract)

Run MRP

Creating a Purchasing Contract(greige contract)



Creating a Contract Release Order

Run MRP and Create PO

Creating Production Order

Goods Receipt of Purchase Order

Release Production Order

Creating Order Confirmation / Component Consumption

Receive Finished Goods from Production Order

A-RUN

Create Delivery

Creating a Billing Document

Key Points

Being a customer driven business process it is essential to guarantee the visibility of the customer during the whole process: during the whole logistical chain starting from sales order entry, to requirement planning, to procurement and finally to manufacturing. The production process of OEMs is benefit to have a clear link between the whole logistical chain and initial unspecific requirement of the customer.

3.9 611 - Sales Order Processing with Allocation Run: Sale from Stock

Purpose

This scenario describes the Sales Order process from Sales Order Entry to Billing for the Apparel and Footwear industry. The process is designed to demonstrate the various AFS functionality for sales order processing. The scenario contains additional ERP standard and AFS-specific functionality:

Pricing conditions (SKU Pricing)

Availability check (on batch level) incl. dialog

Allocation Run (FIFO logic, fulfillment rate)

Use of Categories

Process Flow

The process for the Apparel and Footwear industry is described as follows:

Sales Order Entry

Order Confirmation

Allocation Run



Delivery plus Picking and Post goods issue

Billing

Key Points

Categories: AFS supports requirement and stock categories. Categories can be used to segment the requirements and stock. In this process quality and country of origin are setup as category objects. Customer requirements from CN (China) can be fulfilled by stock from EG (Egypt) or TR (Turkey) if no stock from CN exists. Customer requirements from US (USA) can only be fulfilled by stock from TR (Turkey). 1st quality will be fulfilled by 1st quality on stock; same conditions for 2nd quality.

Allocation Run: During sales order entry ATP allocates existing stock only temporarily. The AFS feature Allocation Run is allocating stock to sales orders finally. The allocation run is based on rules, such as FIFO (first in-first out), credit limit checks and so on.

3.10 612 - Cross-Company Sales Order Processing with Allocation Run

Purpose

The AFS Cross Company Sales scenario is customized for the Apparel and Footwear industry. The scenario uses the AFS functionality, which is a comprehensive solution based on the ERP Standard and is designed to meet the specific needs of the Apparel and Footwear industry. The AFS-specific features allow materials to be managed at the Stock keeping unit level (SKU).

Process Flow

Create sales order on SKU level

Define delivering plant

Carry out allocation run in delivering plant

Create delivery in delivering plant

Picking and goods issue in delivering plant

Create intercompany billing in delivering plant and send via EDI

Receive intercompany billing

Create customer billing

Key Points

Maintain intercompany conditions in pricing procedure

Maintain customer master for intercompany transactions

Maintain vendor master for intercompany transactions

Perform ALE setup for intercompany billing



3.11 613 - Pre-Order Processing (Sales)

Purpose

The Pre-Order Processing (Sales) scenario reflects the season handling in the Apparel and Footwear industry. Products belong to a certain season. Within a season different themes and collections are distinguished. For the combination season-theme-collection different order entry and Delivery dates are defined. The delivery dates can also be defined separately for different customer groups.

Typically there is no stock during entering pre-orders. The procurement will be triggered based on the demand created by the pre-orders. However future receipts can be allocated to reserve stock for certain sales orders.

The ATP check confirms or proposes delivery dates which are the result of the purchase situation.

After incoming goods the goods get allocated to the sales orders regarding the early allocation.

Process Flow

Create sales order on SKU level

Season determination based on defined delivery program, assignment of corresponding delivery date regarding different customer groups

Two-Date Pricing (delivery date and customer group dependency)

Allocation run incl. seasonal settings

Allocation against future receipts

Create delivery on SKU level

Picking and goods issue on SKU level

Billing on SKU level

Key Points

Season determination

AFS Pricing option (Two-Date pricing)

Allocation against future receipts to reserve stock for certain sales orders

Reallocation against early allocation

3.12 614 - Rush Order Processing (Sales)

Purpose

This scenario describes the processing of the AFS rush order. A rush order is typically placed to sell existing stock during or at the end of a season. Existing stock will immediately be allocated during order entry.

Process Flow

Create Sales Order on SKU level

Allocation run is processed in background, immediate stock allocation



Create delivery on SKU level

Picking and Goods Issue on SKU level

Billing on SKU level

Payment

Key Points

Immediate stock allocation

3.13 615 - Sales Order Processing with Export Control

Purpose

This scenario describes the Exporting Sales Order process from Sales Order Entry to Billing for the Apparel and Footwear industry. The process is designed to demonstrate the various AFS functionalities for sales order processing. The scenario contains additional ERP standard and AFS-specific functionality:

Pricing conditions (SKU-Pricing)



Use of categories will be excluded from this process

Legal control (foreign trade)

Process Flow

Creating exporting sales order

Releasing Sales Order (Blocked for invalid license master)

Order confirmation


Delivery plus Picking and Post Goods Issue

Billing

Key Points

Pricing conditions (SKU Pricing)



Use of categories will be excluded from this process

Legal control (foreign trade)



3.14 616 - Order to Cash with Packing and Transport Management

Purpose

This scenario demonstrates how to process a standard AFS order including packing, shipping, and billing the shipping. The process is designed to demonstrate the various AFS functionalities for sales order processing. The scenario contains additional ERP standard and AFS-specific functionality:

ATP, check on batch level

Pricing conditions

No-Seasonality

Allocation Run (unrestricted used stock)

Delivery with picking and packing

Shipment Creation

Freight cost determination

Billing of sales order including freight

Process Flow


Creating Sales Order (For Customer that will Pay for Freight )

Order Confirmation

Allocation Run

Creating Delivery for your Sales Order, Pick and Pack

Creating the Shipment

Determining Shipment Cost

Billing including Freight Cost

Key Points

ATP, check on batch level

Pricing conditions

No-Seasonality

Allocation Run (unrestricted used stock)

Delivery with picking and packing

Shipment Creation

Freight cost determination

Billing of sales order including freight



3.15 AF6 - Outsourced Manufacturing

This scenario focuses on the Outsourced Manufacturing.

When entering the sales order for customer a subcontracting purchase requisition can be created automatically afterwards. Sold Products are finished by the subcontractor and sent to customer directly.

Process Flow


Creating Outsourced Sales Order

Convert Purchase Requisition to Purchase Order

Shipping of components to subcontractor

Posting Statistical Goods Receipt with consumption of components

Invoice verification

Billing

Key Points

Reducing stock and cost, increasing efficiency

Combination of third-party process with subcontracting functionality

Handover of customers requirements directly to external supplier

Invoice from subcontractor based on external services.

3.16 AF7 - Prepacks Order Processing (Sales)

In this scenario, we are demonstrating sales order processing with Prepacks. Prepacks are materials that consist of several components. The BOM contains various components which are sold together as one product.

You use Prepacks if you want to sell predefined combinations of quantities and sizes of particular materials to your customer, e.g. kids T-Shirt and pants, 3-pack of T-Shirts in certain size, but different colors. Prepack is stored on stock as prepack as well.

Process


Sales Order Entry

Key Points

Prepack combination of your product with defined quantities;

Especially used in promotion season.



3.17 620 - Finished Goods and Raw Materials Sourcing

Purpose

This scenario describes both the Finished Goods Sourcing and Raw Material Sourcing functions for the Apparel and Footwear industry.

The scenario uses the AFS functionality, which is a comprehensive solution based on the ERP Standard and is designed to meet the specific needs of the Apparel and Footwear industry. The AFS solution utilizes the AFS specific data (categories and grid values) at every level of the procurement process: MRP, Purchase Order Processing, Goods Receipt and Logistics Invoice Verification.

In AFS, the SAP standard master data used for the materials management processes has been enhanced to accommodate the specific logistical processes of the apparel and footwear industry. The AFS-specific features allow materials to be procured and managed at the Stock keeping unit level (SKU), and AFS-specific enhancements are implemented for different levels of master data processing in the material master, vendor master, info records, and so on.

This scenario is applicable for companies that source their Finished Goods, as well as for companies that manage their own production facilities, and, therefore, procure raw materials.

The target group is the end users of your enterprise. Finally, this document guides you through the entire scenario and is suitable as training material.

Process Flow

The following process flow describes the typical procurement cycle for the Apparel and Footwear industry, which passes through the following phases:

AFS master data is maintained (material masters, vendor masters, info records)

Customer places order, and MRP run generates Purchase requisitions

Vendor is selected and assigned to the requisition

Purchase order is created with reference to the requisition (manually or/and automatically)

Purchase order confirmations are maintained

Inbound Delivery is created

Post Goods Receipt with reference to the inbound delivery

Stock Overview

Logistics Invoice Verification

Key Points

AFS functionality for procurement enables user to:

Run MRP at SKU level

Conduct purchasing processes at SKU level

Conduct inventory management at SKU level

3.18 621 - Materials Subcontracting for Apparel and



Footwear Industry

Purpose

This scenario covers Subcontracting processes specific for the Apparel and Footwear industry.

The scenario uses the AFS functionality which is a comprehensive solution based on the ERP Standard, designed to meet the specific needs of the Apparel and Footwear industry.

In AFS, the SAP standard master data used for the materials management processes has been enhanced to accommodate the specific logistical processes of the apparel and footwear industry. The AFS-specific features allow materials to be procured and managed at the Stock keeping unit level (SKU), and AFS-specific enhancements are implemented for different levels of master data processing in the material master, vendor master, info records, etc.

In a typical subcontracting process, materials (components) are sent to a subcontracting vendor who adds value by performing a production operation. Once the operation is complete, the end products are delivered to the original plant. The Subcontracting functionality offers visibility of the components provided to the subcontractor, and also, if required, operational visibility at the subcontractor.

Process Flow

The following process flow describes the Subcontracting process in Apparel and Footwear industry:

Create a sales order for the end material

Run MRP: it will create a subcontract purchase requisition for the end product and for the components (component requisitions depends on the components availability)

Select vendors for the component and end product requisitions

Create subcontracting purchase order with reference to the SC requisition

Create component purchase orders with reference to the component requisitions (if component requisitions are created). The component POs are to be delivered to the subcontractor directly

Monitor subcontracting stock

Provide additional components to the subcontractor from the plant unrestricted stock

Maintain PO Confirmations for the component POs

Post goods receipt for the component POs into the vendor stock

Maintain PO confirmations for the finished product PO

Post goods receipt of finished good / consumption of components

Perform Logistics Invoice Verification

Key Points

Subcontracting process for Apparel and Footwear enables you to:

Monitor Subcontracting stock at vendor

Provide components to the subcontractor from plant unrestricted stock

Ship components directly from the component vendor to the subcontractor

Perform goods receipt for the end product with the consumption of the components



3.19 AF8 - Procurement with Quality Management

This scenario describes both the Finished Goods Sourcing and Raw Material Sourcing functions that integration with Quality Management for the Apparel and Footwear industry.

In AFS, the SAP standard master data used for the materials management processes has been enhanced to accommodate the specific logistical processes of the apparel and footwear industry. The AFS-specific features allow materials to be procured and managed at the Stock keeping unit level (SKU), and AFS-specific enhancements are implemented for different levels of master data processing in the material master, vendor master, info records, and so on. The Quality Management is also can be process in SKU level.

This scenario is applicable for companies that source their Finished Goods, as well as for companies that manage their own production facilities, and, therefore, procure raw materials. And they need to apply quality management to the purchase process.

Process Flow

The following process flow describes the procurement with quality management process in Apparel and Footwear industry:

Create Purchase Order

Maintain Confirmations

Approval of Purchase Order

Receive Delivery Note / Create Inbound Delivery

Post Goods Receipt

Record the Inspection Result

Usage Decision

Logistics Invoice Verification

Key Points

Subcontracting process for Apparel and Footwear enables you to:

Quality management function integrated with MM

3.20 645 - Activate Document Splitting for Apparel and Footwear Industry

Document splitting enables a complex display of documents. It ensures that you can draw up complete financial statements for the selected dimensions at any time.

Using the document splitting procedure, you can also create a segmented display of a (partial) balance sheet, according to a legal requirement (for example, IAS), or according to areas of responsibility.

The Segment field is a standard field in the totals table for New General Ledger Accounting (FAGLFLEXT) New FI drilldown reporting functions let you create segment financial statements. Document splitting is only relevant for the general ledger; it does not need to be visible from within the sub ledgers.

Process Flow

The following process flow describes the AFS Combined Orders scenario:



Passive split: During clearing (during a payment, for example), the account assignments of the items to clear are inherited to the clearing line item[s] (such as payables line item[s]).

Active (rule-based) split: The system splits documents on the basis of (delivered or custom) document splitting rules. Document splitting rules can be configured.

Clearing lines or zero balance formation: the system creates clearing lines automatically to achieve a split. You can control this process with the "zero balance indicator".

Key Points

Document splitting functionality enables user to:

Extensibility and flexibility to add new fields, you can create management reports, supplementary balance sheets, and profitandloss statement for industryspecific and enterprisespecific purposes.

Increased data quality the results of the document split are visible in the document itself. This eliminates the need for additional check steps in alternative lists, and improves data quality.

Accelerated closing The elimination of additional periodic splitting programs significantly speeds up the closing process.

3.21 154 - AFS: Prereq. Process Step

This Business Process Documentation contains process steps that have to be done as prerequisite before you can start to work through the standard Business Process Documentation of selected logistics scenarios.

Process Flow

The following functions are provided to support this building block:

Roll MM Period to Current Period

Product Costing: Costing Run

Product Costing: Costing Run for Configured Materials

Create Product Cost Collectors

Preliminary Cost for the Product Cost Collector

Set Up Planning File Entry

Routings: Materials Update

Run Materials Requirements Planning (MRP)

Create Missing Parts Index



Key Points

All necessary data is provided that is required for executing demo scenarios with SAP Best Practices.

Prerequisite for selected logistic scenarios

CopyrightIconsTypographic ConventionsContentsSAP Best Practices for Apparel and Footwear: Solution Scope1 Purpose2 Functional Scope Functions2.1 Warehouse and Inventory Management2.2 Forecast-to-Stock2.3 Order-to-Cash2.4 Procure-to-Pay2.5 Accounting2.6 Other

3 Functional Scope Supported Business Processes or Scenarios3.1 134 AFS: Stock Transfer with DeliveryPurposeProcess FlowKey Points

3.2 624 - Warehouse Management with Allocation RunPurposeProcess FlowKey Points

3.3 630 - Make-to-Stock for Apparel and Footwear IndustryPurposeProcess FlowKey Points

3.4 631: Make-to-Order Production w/o Variant Configuration for Apparel and Footwear IndustryPurposeProcess FlowKey Points

3.5 632 - Inter-company and Cross-plant ProductionPurposeProcess FlowKey Points

3.6 634 - Production Subcontracting (External Processing) for Apparel and Footwear IndustryPurposeProcess FlowKey Points

3.7 635 - Combined Production OrdersPurposeProcess FlowKey Points

3.8 AF9 - OEM Business Process in APA CountriesPurposeProcess FlowKey Points

3.9 611 - Sales Order Processing with Allocation Run: Sale from StockPurposeProcess FlowKey Points

3.10 612 - Cross-Company Sales Order Processing with Allocation RunPurposeProcess FlowKey Points

3.11 613 - Pre-Order Processing (Sales)PurposeProcess FlowKey Points

3.12 614 - Rush Order Processing (Sales)PurposeProcess FlowKey Points

3.13 615 - Sales Order Processing with Export ControlPurposeProcess FlowKey Points

3.14 616 - Order to Cash with Packing and Transport ManagementPurposeProcess FlowKey Points

3.15 AF6 - Outsourced ManufacturingProcess FlowKey Points

3.17 620 - Finished Goods and Raw Materials SourcingPurposeProcess FlowKey Points

3.18 621 - Materials Subcontracting for Apparel and Footwear IndustryPurposeProcess FlowKey Points

3.19 AF8 - Procurement with Quality ManagementProcess FlowKey Points

3.20 645 - Activate Document Splitting for Apparel and Footwear IndustryProcess FlowKey Points

3.21 154 - AFS: Prereq. Process StepProcess FlowKey Points

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