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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)

Chapter 13: Analytics

This is the last chapter of this book. Now that we have gone through the complete Order to Cash cycle, including master data, it is vital to understand some of the reporting capabilities and measure the accuracy of the Order to Cash cycle. Understanding sales analytics provides insight into sales forecasting and helps us plan for production based on historical data. Two things are key when it comes to analytics: how analytics improves the existing processes and how it helps us plan future sales efficiently. In this chapter, we will focus on reporting related to sales and transportation and understand some of the key reporting capabilities that are available.

Here is the list of topics that will be covered in this chapter:

  • Analytics overview
  • CRM analytics
  • TMS analytics
  • Analytics powered by HANA

By the end of this chapter, you will have learned about the concepts of analytics and reporting in SAP CRM and SAP TM. You will have also understood...