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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)

Transportation network

The transportation network defines the optimal way to reach one location from another. Transportation can be location-specific and can be point-to-point; that is, transporting goods from location A to location B with one means of transport. Another scenario could be an intermodal, where multiple means of transport are used to ship the goods from one location to another. For example, you could be exporting goods from one country to another that's overseas, so transportation could be via roads as well as the ocean.

In this section, we will look at the locations, transportation zones, and transportation lanes that are required and important to the master data in TMS. This information helps to determine the transit time of the sales order. Additionally, network data is essential for automatic planning as it helps us choose the most appropriate carrier for the given transportation demands.

Locations

The location master concept in TMS is similar to the...