SAP SD (Sales and Distribution)

SAP SD (Sales and Distribution) is one of the core functional modules of SAP ERP that allows organizations to store and manage customer-related as well as product-related data. Companies can then use this data to manage all of the sales ordering, shipping, billing, pricing, credit management, and invoicing processes for their products and services. Thus SAP SD system is basically used to store, manage and control the customer and product data of an organization. SAP SD is part of logistics ecosystem used to manage customer relationship starting from raising a quotation to sales order and billing of the product or service. It allows companies to input their customer sales price, check for open orders and forecast etc. SD comprises of a number of sub-modules: SAP-SD-MD (Master Data), SAP-SD-BF (Basic Functions), SAP-SD-SLS (Sales), SAP-SD-SHP (Shipping), SAP-SD-TBA (Transportation), SAP-SD-FTT (Foreign Trade), SAP-SD-BIL (Billing), SAP-SD-CAS (Sales Support). Key areas covered by SAP SD are: Pre-sales actions, comprising of Inquiry and Quotation creation, Sales Order processing, viz. Sales Order (SO) creation, Shipping including Outbound Delivery document creation, Billing that takes into count both Billing document and invoice creation.