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Transportation is an essential element in the logistics chain. It affects both incoming and outgoinggoods. Effective transportation planning and processing ensure that shipments are dispatchedwithout delay and arrive on schedule. Transportation costs play an essential role in thecalculation of the price of a product. It is important to keep these transportation costs to aminimum so that the price of a product remains competitive. Efficient transportation planning andprocessing helps to keep these costs down.

This business process allows you to export a logical message type PRICAT from R/3 to anexternal system, via ALE and IDocs, or to import it from an external system. (R/3 supports bothEANCOM standard message type PRICAT and ANSI X12 transaction set 832.)This is useful, for example, if you want to:  Send a complete or partial list of your product offering (including prices) to your customers  Send your data to a central database in PRICAT message format so that it is available sothat authorized customers and suppliers can access it.  Receive automatic notification of new or updated product and pricing information from yoursuppliers or from a central database.Price catalog information for export includes the description, information about prices and pricingconditions (including taxes), and logistics information for each product. It can contain eithergeneral product information valid for all customers, or customer-specific information, such asspecial conditions. You can also specify a timeframe for which the price catalog is valid.

In the Sales and Distribution area, you will receive information on the transfer of the followingobjects:  Sales documents  ConditionsThe documentation for transferring sales documents from a legacy system is structured asfollows:  The information sheet contains a table of the most important technical information thatyou require to transfer data.  The process flow describes the data transfer process in individual steps.  The structuring rules contain all the information required for creating a data transfer file.  The section on direct input provides a step-by-step description on how to carry out thedata transfer program.

A company deals with different natural and legal persons during business transactions. Forexample, a customer may order goods and/or services from the company. Or, a contractor mightsupply the services to the customer. An employee in customer service will process the businesstransactions. All the roles these persons can assume are represented by business partners in theR/3 System.Business partners can be:
Internal employees (partners in the Human Resources [HR] system)
External parties (customers and vendors)

In the last decade, component suppliers have had to follow the example of the manufacturersthey supply: to survive the changing market, they have had to reduce costs, increase quality, andincrease speed of delivery.The push to improve business processes has brought about many innovations in the industry,such as just-in-time processing. SAP has taken these innovations into account to providecomponent suppliers with the functions they need to better manage their business.