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Implementing Order to Cash Process in SAP

By : Chandrakant Agarwal
Book Image

Implementing Order to Cash Process in SAP

By: Chandrakant Agarwal

Overview of this book

Using different SAP systems in an integrated way to gain maximum benefits while running your business is made possible by this book, which covers how to effectively implement SAP Order to Cash Process with SAP Customer Relationship Management (CRM), SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization (APO), SAP Transportation Management System (TMS), SAP Logistics Execution System (LES), and SAP Enterprise Central Component (ECC). You’ll understand the integration of different systems and how to optimize the complete Order to Cash Process with mySAP Business Suite. With the help of this book, you'll learn to implement mySAP Business Suite and understand the shortcomings in your existing SAP ECC environment. As you advance through the chapters, you'll get to grips with master data attributes in different SAP environments and then shift focus to the Order to Cash cycle, including order management in SAP CRM, order fulfillment in SAP APO, transportation planning in SAP TMS, logistics execution in SAP LES, and billing in SAP ECC. By the end of this SAP book, you'll have gained a thorough understanding of how different SAP systems work together with the Order to Cash process.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we have gone through transportation planning, its functionality, and the constraints associated with setting up the planning and selection profiles. We now have an understanding of freight unit documents and their configurations and use, along with an understanding of the functions of the optimizer and all the constraints it considers while planning transportation in the most effective way. This chapter covered manual and automatic planning concepts, including freight order creation.

We have also gone through freight order document configuration and its usage. The key concepts regarding carrier selection and freight order tendering processes/plans were also covered. The chapter included different ways to determine carriers and the methods to tender the freight order to these carriers. Before we deep dive into the execution of transportation, it is imperative to understand transportation planning and slot shipments effectively by running the optimizer and...