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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)

Analytics powered by HANA

SAP Business Suite is powered by SAP HANA, which allows us to use in-memory computing. This means that a large amount of data can be stored in the main memory of the database system, which reduces how long it takes to fetch the data and run the logic on SAP Business Suite. This improves the business processes in one aspect and reduces the round trip to the database system. In-memory computing can be used to message and analyze massive amounts of data and gives you the result without any delay. This helps organizations make key decisions quickly, thereby increasing the organization's overall efficiency.

In simple terms, SAP HANA is a modern platform that leverages the power of in-memory computing. SAP HANA provides real-time analytics capabilities because of massive data being accommodated in memory. It also gives the information back to the source system. With the transaction data and analytical data stored, operational analytics can be executed in...