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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 LE, freight settlement, the carrier invoicing process, and the configuration required to set up these processes. We learned about key topics such as the shipment integration between SAP TMS and the SAP ERP system, picking with and without warehouse management, packing with HUs, post goods issues, master data around transportation charge management, freight settlement, and carrier invoices. These are very crucial processes that play an important role in executing the order to cash cycle. If these processes are not run effectively, it will cause delays to the shipment, resulting, in turn, in the loss of customers and business.

We are at the tail end of the order to cash process; our next and last step in the whole order to cash process is customer billing. Customer billing is a critical process where payments are received from the customer. Let's review the billing process and the configuration required to support processes in the...