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introduCtion to sAles And distribution
CASE STUDY OVERVIEW: GALAXY MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
Throughout this book, we will use a case study of a fictitious company, called Galaxy
Musical Instruments, which is a trading company that deals in musical instruments as
well as related media and accessories.
Galaxy has operations in the United States and Mexico. Its main distribution center,
located in California, caters to its wholesale and retail customers in the United States.
Another plant in Baja California, Mexico, caters to all the customers there. In each
chapter of this book, we will discuss how Galaxy uses SAP’s SD application to map its
business processes, and we will use graphics to depict how the settings were made.
We will consistently use the same product range, customers, and organizational units.
This will help us present a cohesive picture and give you an idea of how an actual
organization can use the SD application to map its business processes.
For instance, in Chapter 3, we will present Galaxy’s master data requirements and
how they were mapped in the system, including how the customer master data and
hierarchical relationships were set up. Later, in Chapter 5, we will cover how the pricing
procedure was set up for this customer. Later, in Chapter 8, we will cover how Galaxy
set up routes to ship the products to the customer.
This end-to-end case study will ensure continuity and help you understand how to
apply the functionalities in SD.
Once you have tested the change and are ready to move the changes to the quality
assurance system, you have to release the transport request. Based on the process
setup (which is not in our scope here), the change will be picked up for promotion
to the next system. If you have transported the change to the quality assurance or
production system and it is having an undesirable eect on the processes, you can
reverse it at any time. is ensures that the production system remains safe from
unwanted changes.
A useful transaction for checking and updating transport requests is SE10. e
menu path is SAP Menu
➢
Tools
➢
Customizing
➢
IMG
➢
Transport Organizer
(Extended View). As shown in Figure 1.22, you can enter the user ID and check all
the transport requests created by that user. is transaction is also used to release the
transport requests that are ready to be moved to other systems.
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