Foreign Trade Data in SD Documents in SAP MM

Definition

Data that describes the export or dispatch characteristics of a sales and distribution (SD)

transaction.

Structure

Foreign trade data appears at the header and item levels in sales orders, deliveries and billing

documents. The customer and material master records propose some of this data, and the

system copies some foreign trade data at the documents’ header level from the underlying sales

orders. The system determines other data based on the route or the item category.

Foreign Trade Data in SD Document Headers

Data Description Comments

Data	Description	Comments
Payment guarantee data (sales orders only)	• Payment guarantee procedure • Financial document number
Partner data	• Ship-to party The ship-to party key • Country key The ship-to party’s country key	The system copies this data from the sales order.
Customs data (deliveries and billing documents only)	• Mode of transport The technical customs term describing how (for example, by sea or air) the goods are taken across a national border • Office of exit The key for the customs office at the border, where the goods are loaded onto the mode of transport with which they will cross the border • Inland mode of transport The type of transport used from the delivering plant	The system determines this data based on the route if the appropriate setting has been maintained in Customizing The system adopts this data as default values in deliveries and billing documents.
Mode of transport data (deliveries and billing documents only)	• The mode of transport with which the goods leave the vendor location • Country of the mode of transport with which the goods leave the vendor location • The mode of transport used to cross the border • Country of the mode of transport used to cross the border • Container indicator