A sales order document in SAP S/4HANA has a three-tiered hierarchical structure. The highest level is the Header, which contains data valid for the entire document, such as customer details, document date, and terms of payment. Each sales order contains one or more Items, where each item represents a specific material or service being sold, including its quantity and pricing conditions. Finally, each item has at least one Schedule Line, which contains details about delivery quantities and dates, confirming when the material will be delivered. This structure allows for comprehensive and flexible management of sales transactions.

A. These are organizational units that define a sales area. A sales area is assigned at the header level but does not represent the document's internal structure.

B. These are master data (customer, material) and transactional data (inventory) elements used within the sales order, not the structural levels of the document itself.

C. This describes the sequence of core documents in the Order-to-Cash process (sales -> delivery -> billing), not the internal structure of a single sales order document.

1. SAP S/4HANA Cloud Documentation: In the "Sales" module documentation

the section "Structure of Sales Documents" explicitly states: "Sales documents are structured as follows: Header

Item

Schedule line. The data in a sales document is stored in a three-tiered hierarchy." (SAP Help Portal

SAP S/4HANA Cloud

Sales -> Sales Order Management and Processing -> Sales Documents).

2. SAP S/4HANA (On-Premise) Documentation: The "Sales Documents" overview in the Sales and Distribution (SD) component confirms this structure: "Every sales document is made up of a header

items

and schedule lines. These parts contain different types of data that are relevant for sales processing." (SAP Help Portal

SAP S/4HANA 2023

Sales -> Sales and Distribution (SD) -> Sales (SD-SLS) -> Sales Documents).

3. Glynn

J.

& Stagge

C. (2023). Sales and Distribution with SAP S/4HANA: Business User Guide. SAP Press. Chapter 3

"Sales Document Processing

" Section 3.1

"Sales Document Structure

" details that sales documents consist of a header

one or more items

and schedule lines for each item. This fundamental structure is consistent across various sales document types.