Effect of Changing Sold To Party in SAP SD

This blog post is very helpful to understand the importance of Sold to Party and its importance. You will also learn the impact of changing Sold to Party in SAP SD process.

Usage of Sold to Party in Sales Document:

Once you have entered a sales document, you can change which sold-to party it is assigned to. This might be necessary in the following situations:

• You entered the wrong sold-to party when you created the sales document
• During telesales, you want to enter the item first and then the sold-to party. Here, you would work with the default sold-to party first.
• In make-to-order production, you want to start with a work-to-order before the final customer is known.
• The first customer rejects a make-to-order production order but it is accepted by someone else.

Features of Sold to Party:

When you create or change a sales document you can change the sold-to party simply by overwriting it.

When you change the sold-to party, the system runs the same checks as for the first sold-to party. It checks, for example, whether the sales area in the document is still valid for the second sold-to party. It also checks whether there is a listing or exclusion for any of the items.

You can also change the sold-to party:

• In make-to-order production
• In sales documents with special stocks, such as consignment
• If a sales document is created from another sales document with non-status relevant copying

If you change the sold-to party, you need to redetermine the related data:

• All business partners and data that arise from the sold-to party
• Texts
• Free goods
• Prices
• Output
• Profitability segment
• Customer master data (including the fields for Brazil and Argentina)
• Data from the sales information record (such as the customer material number)
• The system redetermines the plant if the system reads info records according to the sales order type, or the ship-to party changes
• The system redetermines shipping points and routes if the shipping conditions change

The system does not redetermine the following data:

• Material number (info record, material determination, product selection)
• Sales office and sales group
• Product allocation (availability check can be triggered manually)
• Batch determination (can be triggered manually)
• Reference data for the previous sold-to party (such as the purchase order number) remain the same but can be changed manually if necessary