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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)

Billing document type processing

The billing document type controls the features of the billing document's functionality. Like any other SAP transactions, the billing document type contains the basic configuration you need, which includes the number range assignment, general billing control data that's relevant for billing, billing category, account assignment data, output, and partner and text configuration.

SAP provides different billing types to process billing documents. Let's go through each of these billing document types and understand the concept behind when these billing documents types are used in which business scenarios.

Customer billing

Customer billing type F2 is generated when the goods are sent to the customer. When you create this type of customer billing, the billing document is referenced in terms of when you want to bill the customer for the goods that have been shipped. If you want to bill the customer and receive money before the goods...