1. SAP S/4HANA Cloud
Public Edition 2402 Documentation
SAP Best Practices Explorer:
Scope Item BD9 (Sell from Stock): The process flow is initiated by creating a sales order with the standard sales document type 'OR'.
Scope Item BDG (Free-of-Charge Delivery): This process is initiated by creating a sales order with the specific sales document type 'FD'. This demonstrates that the sales document type is the initial and defining element that separates the two processes.
2. SAP Help Portal
SAP S/4HANA
Sales Document Types: "The sales document type categorizes the sales documents and is the most important control element for a sales transaction... For example
the sales document type determines... which billing types are proposed for billing." This confirms the sales document type's role as the primary controller for the entire transaction
including subsequent documents like billing.
3. SAP Learning Hub
Course S4600 (Business Processes in SAP S/4HANA Sales)
Unit 3: Sales Document: This course material explains that the sales document type is a key organizational element in sales processing that controls which fields are required
which partner functions are used
and how the system processes the transaction
including proposing subsequent delivery and billing documents. The choice between a standard sale and a free-of-charge delivery is made at this initial step.