Plant determination logic in Settlement Management/Agency Business

Purpose

This document provides information on how the plant is being determined in Settlement Management/Agency Business (AB) documents.

Overview

In Settlement Management / Agency Business the need for plant data can be set in the settlement document type/billing document type customizing (field TMFK-WERKM). If plant is required in a certain business scenario, TMFK-WERKM must be set. Below you can find the customizing paths for the above field:

S/4HANA: SPRO: Logistics - General -> Settlement Management -> Settlement Documents -> Settlement Document Types -> All Document Types

ERP: SPRO: Logistics - General -> Agency Business -> Billing -> Billing Document Types

In case the above field was set, plant data will be required on item level for the creation of the settlement document.

If plant was not entered manually, or it could not be determined by the system from other data sources, the program will try to determine a plant from the following data sources, in the below sequence:

1. Transfer Manager
2. Plant data from the Customer material info record (CMIR)
3. Supplying plant of the customer (store)
4. Delivering plant from the customer master
5. Delivering plant from the material master
6. Plant, which is assigned to the company code in Settlement Management/AB customizing

In the "Plant determination logic" section you can find a detailed explanation how plant data can be determined in the corresponding transactions/customizing activities, which would be used by the system for plant determination.

Plant determination logic 

1. Transfer Manager

   You can use Transfer Manager to add custom logic for the plant determination and have the plant determined using KOMLFK and KOMLFP structures. For the plant determination, Transfer Event nr. 6F is being used and the plant value should be populated using target structure T001W_KEY.
   
   You can find the customizing activity for Transfer Manager under the following paths in SPRO:

   • S/4HANA: SPRO: Logistics - General -> Settlement Management -> Settlement Documents -> Specify Settings for Transfer Manager

   • ERP: SPRO: Logistics - General -> Agency Business -> Billing -> Transfer Rules
     
     

2. Plant data from the Customer material info record (CMIR)

   Required data: customer number, material number, sales org.
   DB table and field name: KNMT-WERKS
   TCodes: VD51/VD52/VD53
   
   
   

   If purchasing org. data is also passed, then the plant number, which was derived from the CMIR can only be used, if the determined plant was assigned to the purch. org. as well (T024W-WERKS must be equal to KNMT-WERKS)
   
   

3. Supplying plant of the customer (store)

   Required data: customer number, material number
   DB table and field name: WRF3-LOCLB
   TCodes: WB01/WB02/WB03

   Depending on material group assignment, there are two options for supplying plant maintenance:
   material group was NOT assigned to the material
   material group was assigned to the material

   if material group was NOT assigned to the material

   click on supplying plants:
   
   
   maintain a valid supplying plant for the store:
   

   Please note, that if multiple valid supplying plants are available in the above transaction, than the system will take the plant information from the one with the highest priority.
   
   

   if material group was assigned to the material
   
   click on material groups:
   

   
   
   select (or if necessary maintain) the relevant material group (the one, which is assigned to the corresponding material), then click on supplying plants:

   
   
   maintain a valid supplying plant for the store:
   
   
   
   

4. Delivering plant from the customer master
   
   

   Required data: customer number, sales organization
   DB table and field name: KNVV-VWERK
   TCodes: XD01/XD02/XD03 

   Sales area data – Shipping tab:
   
   
   
   

5. Delivering plant from the material master

   Required data: material number, sales organization
   DB table and field name: MVKE-DWERK
   TCodes: MM01/MM02/MM03

   Sales: sales org 1 view:
   
   
   
   

6. Plant, which is assigned to the company code in Settlement Management/AB customizing

   Required data: company code
   DB table and field name: TMZWK-WERKS
   
   Customizing path: 

   S/4HANA: SPRO: Logistics - General -> Settlement Management -> Basic Settings -> Assign Company Code to Plant
   ERP: SPRO: Logistics - General -> Agency Business -> Basic Settings -> Assign Company Code to Plant

   

Relevant program parts

Plant data is being checked in function module WLF_REGU_CHECK_WERKS.

If plant was entered manually, could not be determined by the program previously, nor it was populated thorugh Transfer Manager, the above described plant determination logic takes place in function module WLF_GET_DEFAULT_PLANT.