SAP DeepDive - SD Orders - Backorder using SAP Best Practice

Explore the SAP SFP road map for ECC and S/4HANA, covering decommissioning, new functionalities, version retirements, and 2025 compatibility changes.

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Access SFP from a provider using either the desktop GUI with server details or remote desktop to a Hana SAP environment, then log in to run transactions.

Master the SAP SD journey from theory to practice, starting with sales orders, deliveries, picking and packing, and invoices, then explore ATP, warehouse concepts, transportation, and basic configuration.

S/4HANA enables real-time order-to-cash decisions by dynamically classifying orders as local or backorder and selecting supply sources on the fly, with advanced ATP improving stock allocation.

Learn how backorders manage customer balances and stock allocation, delivering in-stock items first, invoicing only shipped items, and keeping orders open until complete.

Understand backorder concepts, rescheduling and ATP, and how stock is allocated across multiple sales orders with daily consolidated deliveries. Evaluate invoicing, milestones, and output handling linked to shipped quantities.

Explore SAP backorder processing with multi-delivery sales orders that avoid zero quantity items. ATP checks at creation and rescheduling, plus customer prioritization, influence delivery timing and stock actions.

Configure ATP for backorders by enabling the APEP flag on the schedule line item and turning off the check without recommended lead time; review plant rules and BAEO processing.

Configure billing to be delivery related with no zero quantities so invoices reflect shipped items in backorders, avoiding zero-line invoices when stock is insufficient.

Learn how SAP schedule lines determine delivery dates using ATP rules, route data, and lead times, with forward and backward scheduling and material availability logic.

Learn how allocation assigns stock to sales orders under make-to-order and make-to-stock policies, including first come, first served, backorders, privatization, and quotas.

See how rescheduling allocates stock to backordered items, updates the delivery date, creates deliveries, performs PGI, and uses the delivery creation date to generate invoices via mass delivery creation.