What is SAP SD

SAP SD

SAP SD (Sales and Distribution ) is important module of SAP and handles all the processes of order to delivery. SAP SD executes the business processes used in the selling, shipping and billing of products and services.

SAP SD handles all the activities of sales and distribution.  

SD (Sales and Distribution) Components

• Sales Support
• Master Data
• Shipping
• Sales
• Credit management
• Foreign Trade
• Billing
• Transportation
• Sales information system

Main functions of Sales and Distribution (SD) are

• Inquiries & Quotes
• Sales Orders
• Sales Returns
• Consignment
• Contracts & Scheduling Agreements
• Credit & Debit Memo Requests
• Rush Orders & Cash Sales
• Back Orders & Subsequent Deliveries

                                                    

SAP SD works together with the other SAP R/3 modules to provide seamless integration. For instance, when the SD software receives a sales order, it can check for product availability and then trigger the Product Planning module to create a production order. If the product isn't available, the SD module can contact the Materials Management module to acquire the desired products from a third-party vendor to replenish the inventory. SAP SD software will then create outbound delivery documents and delivery orders, managing the entire distribution process from warehouse fulfillment to delivery and then assisting with financing, inventory and profitability analysis.

Like all SAP programs, SAP SD demands a high level of expertise to operate its many functions. The SAP company provides three levels of official certification. "Associate" covers the fundamental requirements for SAP SD operation. "Professional" requires a more detailed understanding of SAP SD solutions and proven project experience, while "Master" requires expert-level knowledge of all SAP SD processes. Interested parties may seek SAP SD certification through official SAP Education Partners, with certification often leading to greater job opportunities and higher salaries.

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INTRODUCTION TO SAP SD

SAP SD (Sales and Distribution) module is one of the core and most used components in SAP ERP software. SD module is highly linked with MM and FI modules.

SAP SD is known as one of the largest and oldest functional Modules of SAP. It is used to perform day to day business transactions & can handle all the processes from an Order to delivery. The main operations of this module are RFP (request for proposal), Customer Sales Orders Processing, Pricing, Picking (and other ware house processes), Packing, Billing, Risk management and Shipping.

Some of the most important basic functional features in the SAP SD training module are:

• Pricing and Taxation: Evaluates the price of the product number for various condition types, such as rebate, or discount granted to a customer.
• Availability Check: Checks the availability of a product in the ware house.
• Credit Management: Defines the credit limit for a customer during the sale of various product by an organization.
• Billing and Invoice: Generates and invoices after  sales order for a product.
• Material Determination: This feature of SD module helps in determining the details of materials on the basis of a specific condition type.
• Account Determination:  This characteristic handles all the details of the customer on the basis of a specific condition type.
• Text Processing: This feature helps to copy text from one document to another.

Role of SD Module in the ERP system:

SD module is an application module in the supply chain and operational performance management which provides support to customers. This module is integrated with Material Management (MM), Production Planning (PP) and other SAP functional modules. It also allows organizations to inputs sales of products for customers and check for open doors.

The main major activities in this module are:

1. Pre- sales activities
2. Processing of Sales orders
3. Shipment
4. Billing

SD (Sales and Distribution) Components:

• Sales Support
• Master Data
• Shipping
• Sales
• Credit management
• Foreign Trade
• Billing
• Transportation
• Sales information system

Main functions of Sales and Distribution (SD) are:

• Inquiries & Quotes
• Sales Orders
• Sales Returns
• Consignment
• Contracts & Scheduling Agreements
• Credit & Debit Memo Requests
• Rush Orders & Cash Sales
• Back Orders & Subsequent Deliveries

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SAP SD CONSULTANT JOB PROFILE

Introduction to SAP SD

SAP SD (Sales and Distribution) module is one of the core and most used components in SAP ERP software. SD module is highly linked with MM and FI modules.  

SAP SD is known as one of the largest and oldest functional Modules of SAP. It is used to perform day to day business transactions & can handle all the processes from an Order to delivery. The main operations of this module are RFP (request for proposal), Customer Sales Orders Processing, Pricing, Picking (and other ware house processes), Packing, Billing, Risk management and Shipping. Find more at Introduction to SAP SD

Roles and Responsibilities

The responsibilities of a support consultant are handling tickets and application support to the end users along with diagnosing, analysing and solving issues.  

A functional consultant identifies the use cases and transforms them into logical and technical views. They customize the respective business area and ensure that the system reacts in the manner according to the constraints of the requested use case. Find more at  SAP SD Roles and Responsibilities  

Career Opportunities

One with experience in Sales and Marketing domain or any MBA-Marketing or Sales fresher can opt for the career by taking SAP SD module training. It’s useful as more and more companies are implementing or trying to implement SAP in their organization.  

SAP SD is considered as one of the demanding, popular and money making careers. As career advancement opportunities are wide in an SAP SD field, an SAP SD career path is more secure than a normal career in Sales and Marketing. Find more at  SAP SD Consultant Career

SAP SD CONSULTANT ROLES

• The responsibilities of a support consultant are: 
  1.   Primarily responsible for Handling tickets and application support to the end users
  2.   Diagnose, analyze and solve issue
  3.   Responsible for any enhancements
  4.   Training the end users and preparing end user training material

• Role of a functional consultant:
  1. A functional consultant identifies the use cases and transforms them into logical and technical views.
  2. They customize the respective business area and ensure that the system reacts in the manner according to the constraints of the requested use case.
  3. Documents the settings and prepares proper guidelines that allow other consultants to do further changes or repairs.
  4. Training users and ensures that the business flow is complete and correct.
  5. Assists the technical staff by testing the behavior of the system. Transfer external know-how to the client.

Role of a Functional Consultant in an End To End Implementation 

1. Generate knowledge about the current business process, design current business flows, study current business processes and its complication.
2. Everything configured has to be documented as per their categories in the form of predefined templates.
3. Mapping and GAP analysis done for each module.
4. Before starting configuring future business processes in SAP, the DFD/ERD are prepared, this documentation is called TO BE, which can be also said as the result of mapping and gap analysis.
5. Preparing test scripts for testing the configured scenarios.

SAP SD CONSULTANT CAREER

The main challenge to the SAP Consultant is to assess overall business objectives within one or more process groups and design business processes in such a way that they may be effectively modeled and configured within the SAP environment.

Consultants must apply a broad knowledge of various technical functions to accurately anticipate organizational impacts. Additionally, they should be able to understand the procedures and expected system performance associated with the introduction of new information technologies, while seeking ways to collaborate with IT members (the Consulting & Processes Group, in particular) to facilitate transitions.

A Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration or Management Information Systems with an emphasis in a specific functional area, such as finance, human resources, manufacturing, operations, logistics, or sales and marketing or equivalent work experience and technical training, is required to take up the career.

Skills and Knowledge:

• Comprehensive understanding of SAP’s customizing toolset, including IMG (Implementation Management Guide).

• SAP configuration skills in SD Module

• SAP functional skills in SD Module

• Solid understanding of SAP data model in SD

• Thorough business understanding of manufacturing processes in a plant environment.

• Familiarity with SAP architecture.

• Good project management skills, operating as part of a team organizing, planning, and executing large scale projects from vision through implementation.

• Strong verbal and written communications skills, with an ability to express complex business concepts in technical terms.

• Strong analytical, problem solving, and conceptual skills.

• Strong interpersonal skills; ability to work well on cross functional project teams and foster team commitment to tasks.

• Conceptual knowledge of information technologies and methodologies.

• Experience in the industry or in a production/service environment similar to that of the employer is preferred.

• Strong knowledge of project management techniques and cross functional experience.

• An understanding of programming concepts and experience with structured design, development, and implementation of new computing architectures.

• Experience with software unit and integration testing.

SAP SD is considered as one of the demanding, popular and money making careers. As career advancement opportunities are wide in an SAP SD field, an SAP SD career path is more secure than a normal career in Sales and Marketing.

 

SAP SD Fresher Resume

Name : XYZ                                                                                                    E-mail ID: ABC@gmail.com
Phone No. : xxxxxxxxxxxxx                                             Current Job: Business Operation Analyst at Oracle India.

Summary

• More than 5 years of Experience in Data & Sales operations.
• Able to train & mentor technical personnel & end users.
• Highly proficient at determining requirement, preparing reports.
• Coordinating projects
• Excellent presentation & communication skills.
• Operationalizing New Ideas
• Leading High-Performance Teams in Culturally Diverse Organizations
• Working in a high pressured work environment

 

Technical Skills
Operating Systems: Windows 7, XP & 98, Windows Server-2003
SAP: SAP R/3 ECC 6.0, SAP Sales & Distribution
Core Skills SD:
• Configuration of master data in sales and distribution like customer master data, material master data and Customer material master data.
• Creating various types of sales documents such as inquiry, quotation, orders suck as cash sales, rush order, free of charge delivery.
• Sales Documents Configuration of various Sales Orders, consignment sales, stock transfer, also for credit memo, returns and free of charge materials etc.
• Delivery document type and delivery process and assignment of shipping points.
• Initial stock posting for material created and availability check in MMBE
• Billing documents for various types of sales orders, like Credit memo Debit memo etc.
• Pricing -- Configuration of pricing procedure with necessary condition types, access sequence, condition tables and condition records as per the type of order and delivery of the materials.
• Credit Management, based on the customer profile assigning credit groups and risk categories.
• Special business transactions such as material determination, free goods determination, item proposal, listing and exclusion, output determination and Bill of Material.
Applications: MS Excel, MS Office, PowerPoint, Dunn & Bradstreet, Hoovers, One Source, Siebel 8.0, Oracle Applications,SAP R/3.

 

Professional Experience

 WORK EXPERIENCE 10th May 2011 to till date
• Oracle India Pvt Ltd, Bangalore
• Roles & Responsibilities
• Handling EMEA Process
• Client : ORACLE EMEA Region
• Environment : Siebel Call Center 8.0 Oracle CRM
• Role : Business Operation Analyst
• Description:
• Comparison between Siebel Call Center & Oracle CRM data, Pulling the data with the differences by running SQL Query & Updating GCM Account & GSI Party with necessary updation.
• Responsibilities:
• Downloading reports from database running predefined SQL Queries
• Distributing to analyst
• Collating the data
• Sending the report to the same
• Uploading file in workspace
• Data Quality Maintenance -- Hiding Accounts
• Client : ORACLE EMEA Region
• Environment : Siebel Call Center 8.0 Oracle CRM
• Role : Business Operation Analyst
• Description:
• Moving Account, Opportunities, Contacts, Activities from Loser Accounts to Winning Account.
• Responsibilities:
• Downloading Reports
• Disturbing to Analyst
• Collating the data
• Sending the report for the same
• Moving in Placid Application ToolWorked for IBM (Bangalore) As Sales Model Specialist from [Nov 15th 2010 to -- Feb 14th 2011.(End Contract)
Responsibilities
 Working with the knowledge of Excel
 To provide the ability of document, review, and submit territory assignments, view the territory assignments of others, and generate reports through FRS.
 To provide information in order to finalize territory assignments and quotas through FRS.
 FRS report extracted from the FRS tool after all the necessary updates.
 Ensure maximum coverage of the account space, working in conjunction with Partners and field account executives where necessary.
Reporting to team lead & Manager on day-to-day basis
IDS Software Solutions, (Bangalore) As Data Analyst 15th Sept 2008 to 30th July 2010
Roles & Responsibilities
Handling EMEA Process:
Client : IDS EMEA Region
Environment : DUSQ Application
Role : Data Analyst
Responsibilities:
 Worked with Microsoft Excel & Outlook
 Analysis of new data received against the Database according to Priorities, Service Level Agreements and data input cut off times
 Timely and accurate input of any new or amended Vehicle Data.
 Record all data input/changes clearly and accurately in defined format.
 Analyzing all new data received against the Database
 Maintaining Timely and accurate input of any new or amended Data
 Maintain Work Flow Records to ensure outstanding work can be monitored accurately.
 Process Training to the new joiners(Being a Mentor)
 General Administration tasks as designated by the Team Leader
Oracle India Pvt. Ltd North American Sales Region (Bangalore)
Business operation analyst [June 12th 2006 to Sep 12th 2008]
Responsibilities
Primary purpose is to provide proactive and programmatic coverage of the Company install base & prospect base to identify up-sell, cross-sell & new customer opportunities.
 Ensure maximum coverage of the account space, working in conjunction with Partners and field account executives where necessary
 Experience of Working in two different Departments in the same organization
 Responsible for maintaining the Data Quality of all data used by sales.
 Generating the Oracle Customer Database, by Analyzing the Company Overview, History, Products and Competitors.
 Working on Oracle Applications tools like OCO, MPM, GCD, POI etc.
 To ensure the Business Name and Contact Information for the Sales Team by using the Secondary data.(Different kind of search Engines-like, Hoover's, Google, MSN,One Source )
 Working as thin client user of Siebel CRM by Creating & Updating Accounts,Contacts,Opportunities in Siebel
 Process Training to the new joiners(Being a Mentor)
 Maintaining GDQ Application
 Updating day to day task
 Updating in quantity allocated
 Time taken to complete the task
 Updating the requestor and the region
 Total Report Pulled from this in Quarter End
 Adhering to daily job and reporting to Team Leader.
 DUNs Lookup
 Description
 We are searching for DUNs for Account and Creating POI for getting DUNs as per request in the MPM/POI.
Responsibilities
 Sales Rep Position Transfer to another position as per requirement
 Collate the file from Analysts
 Sending file to Requester
 Moved on to PeopleSoft Expansion License Calculation Team

Key Responsibilities
 Oracle (PeopleSoft) product license contracts contain Term & Conditions that specify each customer must annually recertify their use of the products based on contracted license metrics (i.e. annual revenue, number of employees, operating budget, number of students...). If a customer's use of the product exceeds the contracted license metric value they are required to acknowledge this fact on a recertification form and pay Oracle an 'expansion license' amount also specified in the original license contract.
 Responsible for pulling contracts, reviewing contract Term & Conditions, recertifying licenses and calculating expansion license revenue as part of the support revenue process.
 Calculating the Incremental License Fee (Fee which is collected by Oracle for Software Licenses), Check Various Tools and get Document for Analyzing, Create a Per Pipe Opportunity, Making the “License Verification Form” to send it to client
 If Triggered, Making the 'Ezquote', a macro enabled sheet used to make the Pay Order and other things.
 Total Quality Checking of Whole Team with number of Check points
 Adhering to daily job and reporting to Process Manager

 

Personal Profile

 Education : B.Com from Bangalore University -- 2005 April
 Anand Nagar Bangalore

 

Certifications

SAP SD Certification

 

SAP SD Sample Resume With 10 years

Name : XYZ                                                                                                    E-mail ID: ABC@gmail.com
Phone No. : xxxxxxxxxxxxx                                                Current Job: SAP SD functional consultant

Summary:

Over 10.0 years of experience in implementation, upgrades, Enhancements & Support of SAP R/3 SD/MM techno functional consultant.
SD Functional Expertise:

• Configuration expertise in the areas of Order Management, Shipping, Billing, Pricing, Output determination, transfer of requirements, Availability check, Credit Management, Rebate Processing, Batch Management, EDI, Inter Company Business Process, Returns Processing, Procurement, Inventory , MRP.
• Hands on Vistex expertise (transactional/composite) for charge backs, bill backs, sales incentives, customer rebates.
• Excellent expertise in pricing including condition technique, data determination, VOFM routines, Pricing IDOCS (COND_A).
• Hands on expertise in IS retail , auto systems.
• Configuration of sales deals, pricing master data management, price uploads, LSMW for pricing upload.
• Experience in variant configuration, MTO order processing, split valuation, batch management.
• Experience in the configuration of basic functions including partner determination, output determination, text determination, account determination, material substitution, and free goods determination.
• Extensive experience in Cross-Module integration of SD with MM, PP, CS, FI and CO-PA.
• Expertise in the configuration of O2C (Order to Cash) and P2P (Procure to Pay) .
• Experience in the configuration of stock transfer order, inter company stock transfer orders.

 

Professional Experience:

Company 1: ABC
Description of the company
Duration: x to y
Role :  SAP SD functional consultant
Collection of the requirements, creation of blue print, functional design documents.
Configuration of new equipment (MTO), used equipment, Distributed equipment order flows.
Configuration of the parts order, cash sale orders flows.
Configuration of the fixed price service order, time and money service order, warranty service order.
Configuration of creation of the release procedure to enable service order creation from a sales order.
Configuration of pricing including pricing procedure, condition types, group conditions.
Configuration of the alternative plant manufacturing using special procurement key.
Configuration of the resource related billing, including DIP profiles from flat price billing and time and money billing.
Creation of an enhancement to copy all the long texts into debit memo request, such that debit memo printout will have the long texts.
Creation of an enhancement to copy operation work center to sales order line item, so that work center will be used in the pricing determination.
Creation of an enhancement to add new field to service order reports.
Configuration of the work technical objects including functional location, equipment.
Creation of custom fields on the equipment master.
Configuration of the pricing procedures, VOFM routines, condition types, access sequences.
Writing the user exits to create a new source for resource related billing document.
Configuration of order types, item categories, schedule line categories, billing types.
Configuration of the milestone periodic and cumulative billing.
Variant configuration for the axle.
Writing the test scripts, conduction the UAT.
Production support.
Company 2: bjhuk
Description of the company
Duration: X to Y
Role : xxxxxxxxxx
Collection of the requirements, creation of blue print, functional design documents.
Configuration of customer master, material master, sales organization structure.
Configuration of the maintenance plants for service processing.
Configuration of the service notifications, service orders.
Configuration of the release procedure.
Configuration of the pricing including condition types, access sequences, condition tables, condition records maintenance.
Configuration of the sales order types, deliveries, invoices.
Configuration of the resource related billing, DIP profile, debit memo requests, debit memos.
Configuration of the account determination.
Configuration of service task lists, creation of the LSMW to load the service task lists including long texts.
Configuration of EDI/ALE, IDOC to receive and transfer the service orders.
Writing the user exits required for the EDI processing.
Configuration of ATP, transfer of requirements for service order.
Configuration of pricing including pricing procedure, condition types, group conditions.
Writing the VOFM routines including pricing requirements, group condition routine, alternative calculation procedure, output condition routines.
Writing the user exits to assign the custom number to sales order.
Configuration of service order, equipment screens.
Creation of the custom program to load the labor hours from source time.
Configuration of order types, item categories, schedule line categories, billing types.
Writing the test scripts, conduction the UAT.
Production support.
Company 3
Description of the company: ADVBFG
Duration: X to Y
Role : hdvbsv
Collecting requirements from users, creation of blue print.
Prepared a detailed document of AS-IS study and developed the detailed TO-BE processes to suit the company’s operations.
Did the gap analysis of the requirements.
Configuration of service notifications, service orders.
Configured credit memo requests, credit memos, debit memo requests, debit memos to handle the complaints of the customer regarding the core charges.
Configured pricing procedures for return orders and credit/debit memos.
Configuration of loner item replacement procedure using release procedure, return order, return goods receipt, goods issue.
Configured pricing exclusion, condition supplements.
Configured TAX calculation for USA and Canada using VERTEX.
Added new fields to the pricing structures (KOMP,KOMK) , field catalogue, and changed the required user exits to calculate the core price based on the custom fields added to the customer master and material master.
Created VOFM routines to extract the core base price from eligibility tables.
Configuration of account determination to integrate SD, CS and FI.
Configuration of number ranges for service orders, confirmations.
Creation of a user exit to prevent service order release when the customer is on credit hold.
Configuration of credit check for service orders.
Configuration of partner determination for service orders, equipments.
Configuration of service contracts.
Created order entry checks at sales order entry using the user exits.
Configured interfaces to suppliers including Purchase order notification (EDI 850 out bound), EDI 856 (Advance shipment notification inbound), EDI 810 (Vendor invoice inbound). This configuration includes extension of existing IDOCS, creation of partner profiles, creation of new status codes, mapping of EDI data.
Addition of cores related fields to sales order header and row.
Created functional and mapping documents to integrate the SAP and FCRC FOXPRO system.
Configured pricing schemas, account determination for core vendor return orders.
Created VOFM pricing requirements, Pricing formulas and output control requirements.
Configured custom ATP (available to promise) to perform the availability check based on the plants assigned to the customer in a custom table using user exits.
Configured TOR (transfer of requirements) to pass the requirements to MRP.
Configured partner determination to add a new partner to ship-to-party customer.
Configured vendor return order, return delivery and vendor credit memo.
Creation of new pricing schema, condition types, access sequence.
Configuration of incompletion log procedure for various order types.
Configuration of basic third party returns (SAP does not support third party returns).
Creation of new material types for valuation only materials.
Creation of new valuation classes and configuration of automatic account determination for the new valuation classes.
EDI 850 outbound/inbound interface creation.
Creation of the core invoice associated with the core invoice using output determination and BAPI.
Creation of open core eligibility report.
Configuration of gross margin rebate, filter rebate to the dealer.
Configuration of supplier rebate on the supplier side.
Created the required master data configuration for the newly created plants including the storage types, storage sections and storage bins.
Configured Batch management.
Configured special movement indicator. Whenever this indicator is used goods will be moved into a fixed bin.
Training to the super users.
Company 4: sdfsdgfdf
Description of the company: dfdfghbg
Duration: X to Y
Role : SDBFU
Baseline configuration of SD (Sales org, division, distribution channel) and MM (Purchasing Organizations, Plants, Storage Locations, Purchasing Groups).
Configuration of inter company stock transfer and intercompany sales process.
Configuration of ERS (evaluated receipt settlement) based on the goods receipt for inter company stock transfers.
Configured customer master, material master, vendor master based on the organizational structure.
Configuration of technical objects, service orders.
Configuration of confirmation screens.
Configured output determination for invoice printing, sales order confirmation, and delivery note.
Configured availability check (ATP) and transfer of requirements (TOR).
Configured credit management including credit control area, credit groups.
Configured consignment process for the stock which is located at customer location.
Configured Batch Management.
Configured variant configuration.
Preparation of test cases and user documentation.
Training to the users.
Post production support.
Company 5: DFJBKI
Description of the company: DGVNJFDOMKL
Duration: X to Y
Role : hjuhykj
Configuration of the Master Data: Material Master, Customer Master (partner functions), Info Configured of Master Data like Material Master and Vendor master.
Configured MM Pricing Procedure. Release Strategy
Configured Purchasing documents – requisition/source of supply – quotas/ RFQ/ quotation entry and analysis/ PO/ automatic, vendor known/unknown, confirmations.
Configured the Inventory management of goods at the points of receipt and issue for all stock categories and special stocks viz. consignment, third party, and sub-contracting.
Configured Master Data in SD Module
Customer Master Record, Customer Material Information Record
Configured Sales Documents
Basic Sales Order Cycles, Sales Document Types, Special Sales Document Types (Rush Order, Free-of-Charge), Item Categories, Schedule Line Categories, Copy Control for Sales Documents.
Configured Deliveries
Configuration EDI 850(inbound/outbound).
Extension of IDOC.
Availability Check, Schedule Line Category, Delivery Item Category, Delivery Document Types, Returnable Packaging, Picking and Interfacing with Warehouse Management
Configured Invoice and Billing Process
Billing Document Type, Account Assignment / Pricing Data.
Configured Basic Functions like
Pricing Procedure, Account Assignment, Partner Determination, Text Determination
Output Determination, Credit Management.
Configured Intercompany Sales and Business Processing
Processing an Inter Company Sale, Inter Company Stock Transfer Orders.
Involved in interfacing and integration of MM & SD with PP and FI/CO modules.
Involved in End user training.