Business Partners & Commercial Foundations
Business partner relationships · customer and commercial account context · commercial master data · organizational and authorization foundations · governed machine/API integration identities
Governed Order-to-Cash orchestration from commercial opportunity to financial settlement.
Reflects the approved Order-to-Cash target scope; individual capabilities are delivered and certified in governed stages.
9 capabilities included in the Sales & Distribution module.
Manage the commercial lifecycle through connected inquiries, quotations, pricing, orders, fulfillment, delivery coordination, billing, returns, agreements and performance intelligence — governed Order-to-Cash orchestration connected to authoritative inventory, logistics, finance and taxation services.
Point of Sale operates as an integrated commercial sales channel within this target architecture: POS → Sales & Distribution → Inventory / Finance / Tax / CRM integration.
Business partner relationships · customer and commercial account context · commercial master data · organizational and authorization foundations · governed machine/API integration identities
Pricing procedures and determination · discounts and promotions · commercial conditions · rebates · governed pricing changes · price validity and authorization
Inquiry capture · quotation preparation · commercial approvals · quotation lifecycle · conversion to sales orders
Order creation and modification · order lifecycle and status · commercial validation · credit-related integration · concurrency and conflict controls · exceptions and approvals
Fulfillment readiness · inventory availability requests · reservation coordination · delivery splitting and consolidation · shipment handoffs · logistics tracking and ETA · proof of delivery · delivery exceptions
Billing-due worklists · partial and collective billing · proforma invoicing · periodic and milestone billing plans · advance, progress and final billing · credit and debit corrections · cancellation and rebilling · financial handoff · e-invoicing integration
Return authorization · return order lifecycle · return-related inventory coordination · inspection and disposition handoffs · refund and credit coordination · claims and exception handling
Commercial agreements · contractual sales conditions · agreement lifecycle · rebates and settlements · commercial obligations
Availability requests · supply confirmation · promise-date management · order commitment · exception handling
Sales and distribution performance · order lifecycle visibility · delivery and billing intelligence · commercial exception monitoring · EDI and API integration · cross-module orchestration
Sales & Distribution owns commercial Order-to-Cash orchestration. It integrates with — and does not duplicate — the authoritative operational systems:
Inventory & Warehousing
Stock, warehouse execution, inventory movements and warehouse-controlled operations
Logistics / Fleet
Transport execution and carrier operations
Finance
Accounting, receivables and financial posting
Tax & E-Invoicing
Tax determination and fiscal submission
Production
Manufacturing and production planning
Procurement
Purchasing and sourcing
This section reflects the approved Order-to-Cash target scope. Individual capabilities are delivered and certified in governed stages; planned capabilities are not represented as live.
Sales & Distribution is composed into these outcome-led iShield solutions.
Shared controls that apply to this module without extra configuration.
Start with the rest of Sales, Procurement & Supply Chain, then the wider suite.

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