SD
SAP SD (Sales and Distribution) manages the selling process, from quotations and sales orders through delivery, shipping and billing. It drives the order-to-cash process that turns customer demand into revenue.
Learn SD by following its end-to-end process, its master data, its configuration (in SPRO), and its integration points with finance and neighbouring modules.
- SD handles the full sales cycle: capturing sales orders, checking availability and pricing, creating deliveries and shipping goods…
- SD is the heart of order-to-cash: goods issue reduces inventory (MM) and posts to FI, and billing posts revenue to FI accounts…
- Sales Order: the central sales document.
- Watch out: Learning screens, not the end-to-end process.
What SD does
SD handles the full sales cycle: capturing sales orders, checking availability and pricing, creating deliveries and shipping goods, and billing customers. It manages customer master data, pricing, credit and output, ensuring orders are fulfilled and invoiced correctly.
Key processes and objects
- Sales Order: the central sales document.
- Pricing: determining prices, discounts and taxes.
- Delivery & Shipping: picking, packing, goods issue.
- Billing: creating invoices (posts to FI-AR).
- Credit Management & Output.
How it integrates
SD is the heart of order-to-cash: goods issue reduces inventory (MM) and posts to FI, and billing posts revenue to FI accounts receivable. It integrates with MM (stock/availability), PP (make-to-order), and CO (profitability), and is a common specialisation.
Learning it
Learn SD by following its end-to-end process, its master data, its configuration (in SPRO), and its integration points with finance and neighbouring modules. Hands-on practice in a training system is essential.
Common pitfalls
- Learning screens, not the end-to-end process.
- Ignoring the finance integration that every logistics module has.
- Skipping master-data setup that the process depends on.