The "Sales Processing using Third-Party without Shipping Notification (BDK)" process involves the company selling goods that are shipped directly from a vendor to the end customer. The process begins with a sales order, which automatically generates a purchase requisition. This is converted into a purchase order that must be approved and released (D) to the vendor. The vendor then ships the goods. Since there is no shipping notification, the process relies on the receipt of the vendor's invoice. Entering the vendor invoice (B) in the system confirms the transaction and makes the sales order due for billing. Finally, the company creates a billing document (A) to charge the customer.

C. Create outbound delivery: This is incorrect because in a third-party process, the company does not handle the physical shipment of goods; the external vendor ships directly to the customer.

E. Create inbound delivery: This is incorrect as the goods are never received by the company. They are sent from the vendor's location directly to the customer's location.

1. SAP Best Practices Explorer

Scope Item BDK (Sales Processing using Third-Party without Shipping Notification): The official process flow diagram for BDK in SAP S/4HANA Cloud shows the following key steps: Create Sales Order -> Convert Purchase Requisitions to Purchase Orders -> Approve Purchase Orders -> Post Invoice Receipt -> Create Billing Document. This directly supports answers A

B

and D and excludes C and E.

Reference: SAP Best Practices Explorer

SAP S/4HANA Cloud

Scope Item BDK

Process Flow Diagram.

2. SAP Help Portal - Third-Party Processing: The documentation for third-party order processing in SAP S/4HANA explains that the system automatically creates a purchase requisition from the sales order. It also states that billing is triggered by the invoice receipt from the vendor

not by a goods receipt or delivery

which is characteristic of the process without shipping notification.

Reference: SAP Help Portal

SAP S/4HANA

Sales -> Sales Master Data Management -> Special Business Processes in Sales -> Third-Party Processing. Section on "Process Flow".

3. SAP Help Portal - Item Categories: The configuration of the item category (e.g.

TAS) used in third-party processing determines the process flow. For BDK

the billing relevance is set to 'F' (Order-related billing doc. - status according to invoice qty)

which confirms that the vendor invoice receipt (B) is the prerequisite for creating the customer billing document (A).

Reference: SAP Help Portal

SAP S/4HANA

Sales -> Basic Functions and Master Data in SD Processing -> Item Categories -> Controlling Item Categories.