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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)

Getting to know UI technologies

UI technologies play a vital role in connecting the business user to the system. The UI defines how well the system provides easy-to-use navigation to business users. Likewise, SAP provides a web UI in both SAP CRM and SAP TMS that helps with ease of usage for business users. Additional UI capabilities with SAP Fiori have taken the UI to the next level for business users as they can launch reports with SAP Fiori. Let's go through the web UI technologies within SAP CRM and SAP TMS and then cover the key UI concepts with SAP Fiori.

Understanding the SAP CRM WebClient UI

The SAP CRM tool allows us to easily access a transaction while spending a minimal amount of time navigating various screens or transactions. The traditional way of accessing different transactions within SAP systems is by using a Graphical User Interface (GUI), which requires any business user to key in different transaction codes to access those transactions. It is a bit cumbersome...