The sales order is structured into header, item, and schedule line levels. The header contains data valid for the entire document. The Sales Area, which is a combination of Sales Organization, Distribution Channel, and Division, is the primary organizational structure entered when creating a sales order and is stored at the header level. The Company Code is uniquely determined from the Sales Organization assigned in the header, making it a header-level enterprise structure as well.

B. Plant: The delivering plant is determined for each line item, as different materials in the same order can be sourced from different plants. It is stored at the item level.

C. Shipping Point: The shipping point is determined at the item level based on the combination of the plant, shipping conditions, and loading group for that specific item.

1. SAP Help Portal

SAP S/4HANA Cloud

Sales Order Management and Processing

"Structure of a Sales Document": This document outlines the three main levels of a sales document. It states

"The document header contains general data that is valid for the entire document... For example

the sales area is part of the header data." It also clarifies that item data includes "the delivering plant and the shipping point."

(Source: SAP Help Portal

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Documentation

"Structure of a Sales Document")

2. SAP Help Portal

SAP S/4HANA

Enterprise Structure

"Assign sales organization to company code": This configuration guide explicitly states the relationship: "In this step

you assign a sales organization to a company code. This assignment ensures that all sales and distribution transactions of a sales organization are posted in the assigned company code." This confirms the Company Code is a direct

header-level derivative of the Sales Organization.

(Source: SAP Help Portal

SAP S/4HANA Implementation Guide

Enterprise Structure -> Assignment -> Sales and Distribution -> Assign sales organization to company code)

3. SAP Help Portal

SAP S/4HANA

Sales

"Organizational Structures in Sales": This documentation details the roles of different organizational units. It specifies that the Sales Area is essential for sales processing and that the Plant and Shipping Point are primarily involved in logistics and delivery processing

which occurs at the item level of a sales order.

(Source: SAP Help Portal

SAP S/4HANA Documentation

"Organizational Structures in Sales")