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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)

TMS master data elements and its concept

Similar to SAP CRM and SAP APO, SAP TMS requires master data to process the transportation planning and propose delivery/shipments for the SAP ECC system, which allows you to ship an order for a particular customer. In this chapter, we will learn about the master data that's required in SAP TMS to plan for goods to be transported. This includes organization data and general master data, products and business partners, the transportation network, and resources.

The following diagram shows the ECC master data and its equivalent data in SAP TMS. The data replication between the two systems is done using the Core Interface, similar to SAP APO:

Figure 4.1 – ECC master data and its equivalent data in SAP TMS

As we can see, the plant, customer, vendor, and shipping point from SAP ECC are mapped to the location master in SAP TMS. The location master has a location type that corresponds to the type of master data...