Organizational unit for structuring sales in a retail company
A distribution chain is made up of a sales organization and a distribution channel.
Many retail companies use different sales channels to sell to their customers, including store-based retailing, wholesale and Internet selling. In the case of store-based retailing, stores can belong to different chains, which have a common look and feel, a common assortment and common goods presentation but which target different groups of customers. SAP Retail reflects these different sales channels by means of distribution chains.
In addition to the marketing aspect, distribution chains are used in conjunction with sales area data to control logistics processes.
Distribution chains are also important for sales pricing. It is not only possible to determine sales prices for an individual site or customer but also for an entire distribution chain.
Distribution chains also have an important role as structuring characteristics for reporting on sales.
More terms such as distribution chain in Dictionary D.
- Manual Development System (BC-CUS-TOL):
- Help The SAP transaction where development and Customizing work is performed. From here, the system data can be transferred to the quality assurance system distribution chain definition.
- Manual Demand Horizon:
- Help determines how the system calculates the total demand in in three different time horizons (short-term, mid-term, and long-term) by assigning demand categories to key figures for the three different distribution chain explain.
- Manual Dangerous Goods Check Schema Determination Routine:
- Help determines the dangerous goods check schema to process in a sales or shipping document, depending on the assignment to the sales organization, or determines the dangerous goods check schema to distribution chain what is.
- Manual Determination Period:
- Help A period for which turnovers in one turnover class are calculated to determine the condition. The determination period can be defined for each condition distribution chain meaning.
- Manual Difference (FI-AA):
- Help difference between two amounts determined in different ways (for example, between total tax depreciation and book depreciation). These differences can be managed in derived depreciation areas distribution chain abbreviation.
