Hierarchy
SAP_ABA (Software Component) Cross-Application Component⤷
AP-MD-IL (Application Component) Relationships Between Objects with GUID Identification⤷
COM_IL (Package) Object Relationship Service (Interlinkages)
Basic Data
| Data Element | COMT_IL_DISTRIBUTION_CHANNEL |
| Short Description | Distribution Channel |
Data Type
| Category of Dictionary Type | D | Domain |
| Type of Object Referenced | No Information | |
| Domain / Name of Reference Type | COM_IL_DISTRIBUTION_CHANNEL | |
| Data Type | CHAR | Character String |
| Length | 2 | |
| Decimal Places | 0 | |
| Output Length | 2 | |
| Value Table | TVTW |
Further Characteristics
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| Basic direction is set to LTR | ||
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Field Label
| Length | Field Label | |
| Short | 10 | Dist.Chan. |
| Medium | 20 | Distribution Channel |
| Long | 30 | Distribution Channel |
| Heading | 40 | Distribution Channel |
Documentation
Definition
Channel via which the goods or services reach the customer. Typical examples of distribution channels are wholesale trade, retail trade, or direct sales.
Use
You can define data for business partners and products per sales organization and distribution channel. In a sales organization you can deliver to a specific customer via several distribution channels.
You can assign a specific distribution channel as an attribute to one or more organizational units in the Sales scenario. These can be sales organizations or subordinate organizational units for a sales organization such as sales offices.
Dependencies
Example
If you work with a selection of sales offices from one sales organization, each of these sales offices can be responsible for a specific distribution channel (for example, wholesale trade, retail trade, direct sales). The attribute "distribution channel" is then assigned to each sales office.
When determining the sales area, the system reads for which sales organization an office with a specific distribution channel is assigned and uses this to determine the combination of sales organization and distribution channel.
History
| Last changed by/on | SAP | 20041219 |
| SAP Release Created in | 400 |
