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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)

Methods of billing

SAP has provided different methods we can use to bill customers. Based on your business needs, you may want to consider billing a customer for every delivery when you ship the products out to the customer, or when the shipping volume is more but the volume of the goods of each delivery is partial or less than a truckload; at this point, you may want to club multiple deliveries together and bill the customer in one go.

This depends on the type of business you are in and for this reason, SAP has provided options such as individual billing and collective billing.

One another option that SAP has provided is an invoice split. You can have different business rules to split the invoice into multiple invoices for a single delivery. For example, if the payment terms are different on different line items on the sales order, you may want to split the invoice, even though all the items have been shipped out in one delivery.

Let's go through each of these options...