Sales Documents Item View Table Control
Have you ever opened a sales document and wished your quantity field was adjacent to the material field? or the plant field was visible on the screen and not hidden on column xyz. Well the layout of these columns may be controlled by the user: you can change the table control of a sales document item view. For example you can drag columns into different positions on the table. You can also save the view of the columns as a user specific variant.
But did you know that you can also set a system/client specific variant for all users. You can do this by changing the columns and selecting the small icon called “configuration” on the top right hand side of the items list. Then select “Administrator” then select “Activate“. This controls Program SAPMV45A and Control TCTRL_U_ERF_AUFT.
Note to do this you must have the following authorization – authorization object ‘S_ADMI_FCD‘
SAP Tips – VBAP-CEPOK – EDI Price/Value
Not all customer expected prices are causing the documents to be incomplete for with EDI. This will help:
SAP Tips – Content of database relevant to configuration of objects
Should you wish to see the tables and information extracted from them for a configured item in a sales document you can use the transaction code:
CUTABLEINFO.
Mass change of Sales orders in VA05
Tip - You may be used to VA05. You may now be using a more user friendly transaction VA05N, which displays the results of sales order list in the ALV grid format. But did you know that VA05 has a mass update function.
Try the following: execute VA05, then select Edit –>Mass change –>New Pricing. Some of the changes are more logical to use in this report than others such as the pricing. Changing material or plant is a bit more cumbersome.
Item usage
Q – This question is regarding item usage.
I know that item usage is one of the determinants of item category at transactional level, but wonder how the system is picking up this value. I know that item usage can be defined in IMG and further used in determination settings for item category. My doubt is how system is determining the value of item usage at transactional level (for example while creating quotation or order).
A – The item determination based upon item usage can be proposed in sales document processing either by the Customer Material Information Record (VD51) or by ABAP code, based upon specific process or material characteristics. An example of the determination of the item usage is often found in Includes such as – FV45PFAP_VBAP_FUELLEN.
Additional info – Data Element – VWPOS
Used in KNMT, T184, TVVW and others.





