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The delivering plant refers to the plant from which the goods are to be delivered to the customer, within a specific sales organization and distribution channel. The delivering plant is also used to calculate inventory. It can contain one or more storage locations. The plant can be automatically proposed by the system when processing a sales order, if it has been maintained in one of the master records or a webstore. It can be derived from:

1. Web store (the Webstore Configuration window)

2. Customer / product info record

3. Customer master record of the ship-to party

4. Material master record

Which delivering plant should be used to calculate inventory is defined according to priority as in the list above.

From this article you will learn how to set up delivering plants and storage locations for a Sana webstore. If you configure delivering plants and storage locations for your Sana webstore, they will be used to calculate inventory, and those configured for customers and materials will be ignored.

Stock is shown in a Sana webstore on all product pages. This can be a simple text, a stock indicator of different colors, or a stock amount. Stock amount is retrieved from and calculated by SAP real-time. Thus, when customers place orders from a Sana webstore, stock is automatically adjusted by SAP.

Storage Locations

In SAP use the Storage Locations table to set up the delivering plant and storage location for a webstore.

In the main menu of the Sana add-on, click Webstore Configuration. In the Webstore Id field, select your webstore and click on the Change Webstore Settings button at the top. Expand the Products area. Use the Storage Locations table to set up the delivering plants and storage locations for the Sana webstore.

The table below provides the description of the fields in the Storage Location table.

Field	Description
Delivery Plant	Select the plant and storage location which should be used to calculate stock for the catalog. You can set up one storage location for the webstore or you can add multiple records for the webstore and define several storage locations for a single webstore. If you add multiple storage locations for the webstore, total stock will be calculated based on all storage locations and shown in the webstore.
Storage Location

Delivering Plant

To configure the delivering plant, in the Customer Material Info Record use the following transaction codes:

• Create Customer-Material Info Record (VD51)

• Change Customer-Material Info Record (VD52)

• Display Customer-Material Info Record (VD53)

You can set the plant in the Shipping area of the Customer Material Info Record.

Use the following transaction codes to set the plant in the Customer master record:

• Create Customer (XD01)

• Change Customer (XD02)

• Display Customer (XD03)

Open Sales area data and on the Shipping tab, choose the delivering plant.

Use the following transaction codes to define the delivering plant in the Material master record:

• Create Material (MM01)

• Change Material (MM02)

• Display Material (MM03)

On the Sales organization 1 tab, set the delivering plant.

Using transaction Other Goods Receipts (MB1C) in SAP, you can manage stock amount per plant and storage location.

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There are two types of stock calculation:

• Available-to-promise (ATP)

• Unrestricted

In the main menu of the Sana add-on, click Webstore Configuration. In the Webstore Id field, select your webstore and click on the Change Webstore Settings button at the top of the window. Expand the Products area.

In different projects sales managers want to show product availability (stock) the way that meets the requirements of their business.

If you use ATP stock calculation type, you can select different checking rules. The checking rule defines the checking procedure for ATP stock calculation, for example which receipts should be taken into account in the availability check. The A (SD order) checking rule is used by default, if no value is set.

Using Unrestricted stock calculation type, you can show a quantity that is physically located in the warehouse and is not subject to any usage restrictions.

You can check stock amount using the Stock/Requirements List in SAP (MD04).

Default Plant

In the Webstore Configuration window in SAP, you can also select the default plant. This may be necessary if the material is kept in multiple plants in SAP and:

• If you retrieve plant data for the materials from the MARC table using the extra fields mapping. It is necessary to take the correct data for the selected (default) plant. Otherwise, the first available plant entry is used.
• If you use the Estimated Shipment Date content element add-on. To show the estimated shipment date on the product details page for the default plant. If the default plant is not set, the estimated shipment date will be taken for the first available plant entry.

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