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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)

Chapter 12: Customer Billing

Customer billing is the last and the most important step in the Order to Cash cycle. We have gone through the complete Order to Cash cycle right from creating the sales order, fulfilling the sales order, and planning transportation, to picking and posting goods issues in the warehouse in the last few chapters. In this chapter, we will continue with the Order to Cash cycle by describing the billing process. We will cover the different billing document types and their functions. We will also understand how the billing documents are processed once the freight settlement process is completed. As you may recall, the freight settlement process was covered in Chapter 11, Logistics Execution in SAP LES.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • Billing process
  • Billing document type processing
  • Methods of billing
  • Billing document type configuration

By the end of this chapter, you will have learned how to set up the billing...