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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 went through SAP APO master data, that is, location, product, and resource master data, and the transfer of this master data from SAP ECC to SAP APO. This chapter covered the basis of the order fulfillment process and functionality within SAP APO. With this chapter, you have gained a good understanding of how to set up master data and configure the system to replicate data from the SAP ECC system to the APO system.

Location and product data forms the basis of ATP and product allocation functionality. Any issue with this data impacts ATP checking during sales order processing in SAP CRM. This chapter has given you the information you need to reduce risk related to master data and make sure you understand the details around the setup.

The next chapter is about master data in SAP Transportation Management, where we will learn about executing transportation planning successfully.