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Area Menus for SD Configuration

Tired of searching the SPRO configuration tree looking for that one transaction to complete
your SD customizing? Wouldnt it be great to have just one transaction that contains all your
relevant configuration steps and nothing else?
SAP ERP offers a very flexible way to combine related transactions together in what is
called
an area menu. Area Menus are maintained via transaction SE43, available via Tools
ABAP
Workbench Development Other Tools. SAP itself comes loaded with some very useful
area
menus and in this QuickTip we will present some of these to you.
Lets start with an area menu thats dedicated to SD Billing customizing: this is area menu
OLVF (Fig. 1):
Figure 1: Display Area Menu OLVF (transaction SE43)
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Figure 2: Area Menu OLVF (customizing SD billing)

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Figure 3: Area Menu OLVS (Customizing SD master data)

Other useful SD configuration area menus include OWV0 for Pricing Customizing and OLVD
for Shipping Customizing.
You can very easily combine whichever transactions you need in your own area menu which
you can create with transaction SE43. This can be very useful you want to give your users a
convenient way to access their certain transactions without having to search around the long
application trees of the standard system.
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Summary
SD customizing transactions are collected into easily accessible area menus which allow you
easy access to the most commonly used transactions. You can also very easily create your
own
area menus, either for your personal use or to allow your system users to access their most
commonly used transaction codes in a simple manner.
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