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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)

Transportation planning

In the previous chapter, we covered transportation management architecture and transportation requirements. This chapter covers the key aspects of transportation planning, which, in turn, maximizes logistics activity and brings profit to the organization. In transportation planning, two business documents are created – a freight unit and a freight order. Before these business documents are created, several constraints, including capacities, are considered with a view to optimizing the shipment processing process. Let's start with the freight unit document and understand how this document works and is processed in SAP TMS.

Freight unit

The planning process is broken down into different stages. Transportation requirements initiate the planning process, with a freight unit being the logical unit that groups together the items to be transported. The items in the freight unit stay together and are always transported together from the source to...