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1811095 - How the Business Configuration Scoping Influence the Calculation of Freight in a Sales Document

Symptom

How the Business Configuration scoping influence the calculation of Freight in a sales document.

Environment

SAP Business Bydesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to the Sales Orders work center.
  2. Go to the Sales Orders view.
  3. Show All Orders and search for the Sales Order ID XYZ (XYZ represents the ID of the sales order).
  4. Click the Edit button.
  5. Click on the View All button.
  6. Go to the Pricing tab.
  7. The calculation of Freight amount is not as per your expectation.

Cause

Business Configuration scoping influence the calculation of freight in a sales document. You have to answer the scoping questions as per your requirement.

Resolution

This changes depend on the scoping question. But in this case, the freight that is available in the Configure Price Strategy screen is the item level Freight. This cannot be made to Fixed Amount.

  1. Go to the Business Configuration work center.
  2. Go to the Implementation Projects view.
  3. Select the Project and choose Edit Project Scope button.
  4. Navigate to the 4th step - Questions.
  5. Expand Products and Service Pricing under General Business Data option.
  6. Select the Sales Price Specifications option.
  7. You will find two questions for Freight in this section:
    • Do you calculate freight amount based on net weight?
    • Do you bill a fixed freight per order? 

Kindly note: If you have selected the question Do you bill a fixed freight per order? and if you follow the below steps you can maintain the freight based on following scales :Net Weight, Net Value, Gross Weight and Volume :

    1. Go to the Business Configuration work center.
    2. Select the Implementation Projects view.
    3. Select the respective implementation project and click on Open Activity List
    4. Navigate to the Fine Tune step.
    5. Open fine tuning activity Configure Price Strategy.
    6. Click on the Pricing Procedure hyperlink.
    7. You can see that the Price Component Freight is available in step 60.
    8. You can change the scale to net weight or any other scale.
    9. This change can be done only before the transactional data such as sales order(Sales Documents) is created.

Keywords

Freight; Configure Price strategy freight; , KBA , freight , fixed freight net weight , AP-RC-BCT , Business Config. Tools (SAP Business ByDesign , How To

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions