Value-Added Services

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Table of content
1 Value-Added Services
1.1 Value-Added Service Articles
1.2 Controlling Value-Added Services With Conditions
1.3 Value-Added Services in Delivery Documents

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1 Value-Added Services
Customers frequently request price labels, packing in a certain manner, or any other special services for their ordered fashion articles. These special services
are added to the fashion articles before they are delivered to the customers. Depending on the kind of service and its complexity, you will need articles,
expertise, and/or more personnel to provide the service. These services increase the value of the fashion articles that you will finally deliver to the customer,
and are referred to as value-added services (VAS).
You can map these specific customer requirements, including the costs involved in servicing the requirements, as value-added services (VAS) in the SAP
Fashion Management system. All the different information related to these different services are assigned using conditions and are determined in the
application documents such as sales order, stock transport order, and purchase order later. This way you always have the information about what services
which customer wants and for which fashion articles, during the complete customer-order process. This information can also be added manually in the above
documents in some exceptional scenarios.
During order processing, all the necessary specific services, related information including prices are present in the documents and they would be transferred to
the follow-on documents like outbound delivery, inbound delivery, etc. This is done to help the warehouse personnel to carry out the special tasks needed
before delivering the goods in a timely manner and with precision. Additional ability to maintain the freely definable information fields during the condition
maintenance can be used to pass the necessary information to an external system such as warehouse management, if needed. During special sales business
transactions like third party order (TPO) and purchase-to-order (PTO) processing, VAS information is sent from the sales documents to the purchasing
documents. This information cannot be changed in the purchasing department. This is to ensure that the external vendors would perform the necessary special
services, if needed, before delivering the goods directly to the customer or store.

Note
VAS articles are not enabled for segmentation and seasons.

Integration
VAS is fully integrated with the sales and purchasing processes.

Features
Value-added service in SAP Fashion Management provides you the flexibility to create any number of service types and subservice types. You can create and
define your own maintenance groups for the context FASHION based on the services frequently requested by your customers. You can create maintenance
groups based on service types such as ticketing/labeling, packing, special service and so on.

Note
A customer orders slacks and skirts and wants to receive them packed separately. Since the skirts are made of a more delicate article, you are asked to
pack no more than ten in one carton. For this, you can define a condition maintenance group and specify in the system a packing as the service type and
the maximum number of skirts per carton. In the application, you assign the service type packing to the relevant articles and also specify the maximum
number of skirts for this packing type.

Activities
1. Create service type and subservice type for VAS in the Customizing for Maintain Service Types and Subservice Types under
SAP Customizing
Implementation Guide Logistics - General SAP Fashion Management Value-Added Services (VAS) , you define the service types and the
subservice types..
2. Create the corresponding conditions for the value-added services
3. If necessary, create the articles that are required for certain value-added services. You do this either because you yourself need the articles on a regular
basis, or the customer provides them to you.

Note
Value-added service articles make use of standard article pricing.

1.1 Value-Added Service Articles

A customer not only wants you to generally label, package, or otherwise service their goods, but also has very specific instructions that require special articles
to be delivered with the originally ordered goods.

Example
Your customer may want to have a very special label that you find easier to create to their exact specifications and carry it as a article which you enter in
this customer's orders manually.
Especially when goods are delivered directly to a retail store to be offered for sale there, your customer may provide you all necessary articles for labeling,
packing or other services. You are then requested to prepare the order for sale by using those articles.
In this case it may be important for you to know at any time how much of the customers stock is still available at your site so that you can ask for
replenishment when needed. You can do this when you carry such articles as VAS articles in stock. With the proper settings for the availability check, the

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system not only controls the stock of the ordered goods, but also that of the VAS articles.

Prerequisites
You have maintained all the Customizing under
SAP Customizing Implementation Guide
Added Services (VAS) Controls for VAS Determination

Logistics - General

SAP Fashion Management

Value-

Activities
Value-added service article should be of the article type Additional . This article type can be configured using Material Types (transaction OMS2). This article
types should have 5 Material type for additionals as the Material type ID .

Note
VAS articles are not enabled for segmentation and seasons.

1.2 Controlling Value-Added Services With Conditions

If some of your customers require value-added services either on a regular or on an article-specific basis, you can define these as conditions. The system
checks whether conditions are present each time you create a sales or purchase document. If there are, the condition records data is copied automatically into
the document. This avoids having to manually enter the same value-added services every time you create a document.
You can put a time limit on each condition if, for example, your customer requires certain value-added services on a seasonal basis.

Prerequisites
You have made the settings in the following Customizing for
SAP Customizing Implementation Guide
Value-Added Services (VAS) Controls for VAS Determination .

Logistics - General

SAP Fashion Management

Maintain Field Catalog

Create Condition Tables
Create Access Sequences

Features
Condition Types and Key Combinations
You use condition types to determine whether your condition records for VAS are valid for articles, sales documents, and purchasing documents. You can also
create your own condition type.
You make these settings in the Customizing for Create Condition Types under
SAP Customizing Implementation Guide
Fashion Management Value-Added Services (VAS) Controls for VAS Determination .

Logistics - General

SAP

You can specify the condition types you need for the determination of VAS conditions and you can assign the previously defined access sequences to the
condition types. You use the condition type to define the properties, field combinations and business importance of condition records.
SAP Fashion Management provides the following condition types:
01MG
02MM
03SD
Access sequences with same names are entered for these condition types.
You use these condition types to determine whether your condition records for VAS are valid for articles, sales documents, and purchasing documents. You
can also create your own condition type.
VAS Conditions
In the VAS condition you specify:
the validity period of the condition
the VAS articles you want to use
the key combination and usage
the VAS details such as the service type and subservice type, article, requirement relevance, procurement relevance, and VAS increment
In addition to the above, in case of sales documents you can specify the customer, customer group, distribution center, division and sales organization and in
case of purchasing documents, you can specify the purchasing organization, purchasing group, and vendor.
You can also use the Create with reference to create a new condition record by making use of an existing condition record as a reference.
You can not only create new conditions, you can also change existing conditions.
Determination Process in Documents
When you create a document, the system checks whether determination is enabled for the document, if enabled, the system checks if VAS condition exists
for all the combinations based on the validity period. If the conditions are found, and if the necessary customizing is maintained, then VAS condition is copied
into the document.
VAS Data in Document, Overview
The overview of the VAS data in the document (sales and purchasing) shows you the VAS data that exists in the document.

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Activities
To define VAS conditions, on SAP Easy Access Retailing Menu (transaction W10M), choose

SAP Fashion Management

Value-Added Services (VAS)

You can create a condition records based on the condition types. You have the following options:
VAS Condition Maintenance Specific to Article
VAS Condition Maintenance for Sales Documents
VAS Condition Maintenance for Purchasing Documents

1.3 Value-Added Services in Delivery Documents

Consumption of value-added services (VAS) in delivery documents is necessary for VAS information (data or item) to flow across logistics cycle like order-tocash (O2C) or procure-to-pay (P2P) scenarios so that they can be applied to the articles before they are delivered.

Prerequisites
In the Customizing for Define Delivery Types for Fashion Management under
SAP Implementation Guide Logistics - Execution Shipping
Deliveries , you have selected the VAS Active Flag to enable VAS determination option for delivery documents and assigned the Determination
Procedure to the document type created using VAS condition maintenance.
In the Customizing for Define Item Categories for Deliveries in Fashion Management under
SAP Implementation Guide Logistics - Execution
Shipping Deliveries , you maintain the VAS Determination Mode at the item category level.
In the Customizing for Specify Copy Control for Deliveries under
SAP Implementation Guide Logistics - Execution Shipping Copying Control
, you specify what data needs to be copied when a delivery document is created with reference to a sales document. In this Customizing, along with
other data, you maintain a VAS related setting to decide whether VAS data needs to be copied from the sales order or fresh determination of VAS has to
take place in the delivery document. Here, you choose between Do not copy VAS Data and Item and Copy VAS Data and Item, No new
Determination .

Note
The item category and copy control customizing are the prerequisites only for outbound deliveries. They do not apply to inbound deliveries.

Features
Manual Entry of Value-Added Services in Delivery Documents
In addition to the option of defining value-added services as conditions, you can enter the VAS data manually in a delivery documents for line items. This is
especially useful for a new customer who requests value-added services. Before you define conditions for such a customer, you probably want to see how
business with this customer develops.
The manual entry of VAS data also makes sense for a customer who only requests value-added services occasionally or for one specific delivery, for
customers who require differing services for each document, or want identical ticketing/labeling, packing or other services only for part of the items in the
document.
You can maintain manual entries of VAS in the delivery documents using the VAS button. VAS item generation is not possible through manual entry in
delivery documents.
Inbound Delivery
In case of inbound deliveries, VAS data or items are directly copied from purchase orders.
Outbound Delivery
VAS data or items are either copied to an outbound delivery document based on the settings in the customizing for copy control or fresh VAS determination
takes place in the system based on the VAS conditions maintained.
The following are the possible scenarios:
When VAS data is not copied from preceding sales documents, and if the VAS Active Flag in order type is not maintained, and if the VAS
Determination Mode is not maintained for item categories, then VAS determination will not happen inside the delivery document.
When VAS data is not copied from preceding sales documents, and if the VAS Active Flag in order type is maintained, and if the VAS Determination
Mode is also maintained for item categories, then new VAS determination will happen and the VAS data will be determined in the delivery item. No VAS
item will be generated in the outbound delivery even when Req Relevance is selected in the VAS conditions.
If VAS data or item is copied from preceding sales documents using the copy control customizing, VAS determination does not happen inside the
delivery as copy control customizing has precedence over the order type customizing.
Deletion of VAS Data or Item
If VAS data or item has to be deleted in the dialog mode, you can do so using the VAS pushbutton. If a main item is deleted, then along with the main item,
the corresponding VAS items are also deleted.

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