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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 3: Master Data in SAP APO

Master data in SAP APO forms the basis of the fulfillment process. The data in SAP APO is critical to performing the ATP/product allocation check. Having incorrect master data leads to incorrect ATP checks or errors on sales orders. Therefore, it is very important to understand the data aspect and the settings required in the SAP APO system in order to run the cash cycle successfully. Having said that, you should have a good understanding of how these data elements work in SAP APO. In this chapter, we will focus on master data setup and configuration in SAP APO.

Note that master data related to product allocation data and scheduling master data will be covered in Chapter 8, Order Fulfillment in SAP APO.

The topics to be covered in this chapter are as follows:

  • Introduction to master data in SAP APO
  • Location master data concepts in SAP APO
  • Product master data in SAP APO
  • Resource master data in SAP APO
  • Transferring master...