QUESTIONS ON CUSTOMER MASTER

1. THERE IS CUSTOMER WHO RECEIVES GOODS ON SATURDAYS .

WHERE IS THE CONTROL.

GO TO IMG -> Sales & Distribution -> Master Data -> Business Partner -> Customer
->Shipping ->Define Goods Receiving Hours.

Here you define the goods receiving hours by 3 digit number, for example, Week days
only or also on Saturdays etc. use the same in customer master.
2. WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF NIELSEN ID

THIS FIELD WILL HELP TO TRACK CUSTOMERS IN MARKET SURVEY.

WHEN EVER WE ARE LAUNCHING NEW PRODUCT WE DO MARKET
SURVEY IN SPECIFIC REGIONS.IF CUSTOMER IS LOCATED IN MARKET
SURVEY REGION THEN MAINTAIN NIELSEN ID.

3. WHICH FIELD WILL BE USED TO GROUP THE CUSTOMERS BASED

ON THEIR SALES TURN OVER.
The annual sales field in customer master is used to maintained the annual sales figure
or turn over of the customer(company ) for which you are creating the master data.
This field is important from the marketing analysis purpose where you can do the
analysis based on customer annual sales figure and build your strategy for sale to this
customer or you can analyse the buying potential of the customer ( company).

4. WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF RECONCILLATION ACCOUNTS

An account is maintained for each customer, vendor or asset in the sub ledger. When
preparing financial statements the details of these individual accounts are not
necessary. Instead, every asset, customer or vendor account is linked to a certain SAP
reconciliation account,also known as a control account.

5. WHAT IS BASE LINE DATA

The Baseline serves as a development platform and is the basis for further
configuration and business process development. A date by which a service needs to
be completed and that is agreed upon in a service level agreement (SLA) between the
service provider and the customer.

6. WHAT IS CASH DISCOUNT AND HOW WE DETERMINE IT INTO

SALES DOCUMENT

Cash Discount is a reduction in price of an item for sale, allowed in those cases when
payment is made within a Period.