Contents

Introduction .................................................................................................................................................. 2
Create an Information Structure ............................................................................................................... 2
Maintain Update Groups ........................................................................................................................ 10
Maintain Update Rules ........................................................................................................................... 11
Maintain Statistics Groups ...................................................................................................................... 15
Maintain Statistical groups for customers .......................................................................................... 15
Maintain Statistics Groups for Material .............................................................................................. 17
Maintain Statistics Groups for Sales Document ................................................................................. 19
Configuration steps needed to use standard SIS reports ....................................................................... 20
Assign Statistics Groups for relevant Sales Document Type ............................................................... 20
Assign Statistics Groups to each Sales Item Type ............................................................................... 21
Assign Statistics Groups to each Delivery Type .................................................................................. 21
Assign Statistics Groups to each Delivery Item Type .......................................................................... 22
Determine Billing Document Types Relevant to Statistics .................................................................. 22
Assign Update Groups to Header and Item Levels ................................................................................. 23
Activate SIS Update ................................................................................................................................. 24
View the SIS report ................................................................................................................................. 26
For customized info structures ........................................................................................................... 26
For standard SIS reports ...................................................................................................................... 27
Customizing SIS reports .......................................................................................................................... 28







Introduction
Sales Information System (SIS) is a component of LIS (Logistics Information System). LIS has below
components.
Purchasing Information System
Sales Information System
Plant Maintenance Information System
Retailing Information System
The Sales Information System is a flexible tool which allows you to collect, consolidates, and utilizes data
from Sales and Distribution processing. It can be used at different levels in the decision-making process
as a control and planning instrument, enabling you to recognize market developments and economic
trends early on and to take appropriate measures.
Create an Information Structure
This step is needed only if you need to create your own SIS reports. If you want to activate existing SIS;
then this step is not required.
Tx Code: MC21
IMG Path:


Enter new Info Structure ID and name
To create a new Structure, we have to use a number from the custom number range. (Between 501 and
999)
You can copy from an existing structure as well.


Press Enter key


You can create your own field catalog using transaction MC18.
Note: (Optional)
If you want you can add more fields to the info structure as well. Follow below steps to add more fields.
Eg: Adding Sales Document and Sales document item fields
Click on Icon and then click on icon to choose fields
from field catalogs .
Choose field catalog by double-clicking it.

Double-click on Sales Document and Sales document item from field catalog fields to add it to field
catalog fields section.
Choose fields and from Field Catalog. You can view technical names
by toggling the icon. Make sure that you have selected correct characteristics as:
MCVBAK-VBELN and MCVBAP-POSNR.


Click on icon and then click on icon to accept the changes.
New fields will appear under Characteristics section.












Newly added fields will appear under Characteristics section as shown below;


Double-click on characteristics and key figures to review technical information. This step is not
mandatory, just for information.
Eg:


Once everything is done,
Press
Give relevant development package name. If its for testing purposes and no need of
transporting from your test client to any other client. Use $TMP to make it as a local object.

You can check the consistency by clicking button
Click on to generate the structure
You will get the successfully generated log as below.





Maintain Update Groups
Update Groups for Sales and Distribution No new entries need to be created. You can use the existing
system-delivered update groups.
IMG Path:

Eg:

Use Update Group (UpdGrp) 1 for the standard order process of: SIS: Sales Document, Delivery, Billing
Document and use UpdGrp 2 for the SIS: Returns, Returns Delivery, Credit Memo.


Maintain Update Rules
Update rules help you to define updating in detail. The definition of the update rules depends on the
information structure and update group.
Update rules consist, for example, of the source field, the event which triggers the update, requirements
and formulas. Once you have defined the update rules, the corresponding update programs are
automatically generated.
In this IMG activity, you can create, change and display update rules. Once you have defined the update
rules, you then need to activate the update in a separate step. The creation of update rules, the
generation of the update programs, and the eventual activation of the update have been divided up into
separate steps for security reasons

Note:
If you create your own info structures, this step is mandatory for each info structure.
Tx: MC24

Choose Create


Copy rules from S001

Press Enter


Please make sure the Source information is properly updated for all the characteristics.
Save it.
Check the updating Rules by clicking on
Click on


Maintain Statistics Groups
Maintain Statistics Groups for Customers, Materials, SD Document Types etc. Default standard values
can be used directly. (No need of creating new ones)
Make sure that settings are updated for customized objects too,
Eg: All customized Sales document types should be added. Also, make sure that the customer (sales
view) and material Master records are updated with appropriate Statistics Groups.
Maintain Statistical groups for customers
IMG path:
Tx: OVRA


These values can be used in customer master

In the customer master, Sales tab, you need to assign one of these to the relevant customer.


Maintain Statistics Groups for Material
Same manner you have to maintain Statistics Groups for Materials.
IMG Path:
Tx: OVRF


These values will be assigned to each material in sales 2 view of the material master.

Material Master sales 2 tab will be as follows.


Maintain Statistics Groups for Sales Document



Configuration steps needed to use standard SIS reports
Assign Statistics Groups for relevant Sales Document Type
If you need to use existing SIS reports for your client, then you need to start configuration from this step
onwards. Above mentioned steps are used only if new Info structures are created.
In this IMG node we need to assign Statistics Groups for each Sales Document Item Type.
IMG Path:



In order to use existing SIS, you have to assign statistics groups to all Z sales document types.
Assign Statistics Groups to each Sales Item Type
IMG Path:

In order to use existing SIS, you have to assign statistics groups to all Z item categories.

Assign Statistics Groups to each Delivery Type
IMG Path:


Assign Statistics Groups to each Delivery Item Type
IMG Path:

Determine Billing Document Types Relevant to Statistics
IMG Path:


Make sure that customized objects specific to your company are also updated appropriately.
Assign Update Groups to Header and Item Levels
For combinations of Sales Area (Sales Org, Distribution Channel, Division), assign Update groups we
need to assign relevant statistical update groups.







Activate SIS Update
Last step is to activate LIS Update for the Structure
IMG path:
Tx: OMO1


Select Sales and Distribution activity

Choose Activity as Sales and Distribution. Let's update our LIS structure S990 with period as Month
and update option of Asynchronous Updating (2).
Use down arrow key to locate the relevant structure

Double click on the structure and maintain relevant values.

Save it
View the SIS report
For customized info structures
If you have created your own info structures, then you need to do below.
Create a new sales order and generate the report to check whether values are correct.
Tx: MCSI
Select relevant report from the popup

Youll be able to view the selection screen to generate the report.



You can ask your ABAP developer to create a Z transaction for this report as well.
For standard SIS reports
Menu path


Customizing SIS reports
All SIS reports can be customized.
Eg: If user wants to appear ID and description in the report.
Click on the button from the selection screen.


Give the relevant user ID

For each section you can define it by clicking on button


Now the report will display Key and description.



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