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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)

Resources

Resources are critical when it comes to planning and executing the transportation requirements in SAP TMS, as it helps us ship goods from one location to another in the most optimal way. The resource master helps determine the operating hours and the capacity that the resource can handle during transportation planning. The operating hours of the location, its handling resources, and the vehicle's capacity are all considered in the resource master, and this information is very critical to planning and scheduling for transportation.

The following resources are used in transportation planning:

  • Vehicle resources: You create a vehicle resource for the required means of transport in the vehicle resource master. You assign the resource class to the vehicle resource; that is, to say that the vehicle is a truck, railcar, trailer, airplane, and so on. Within General Data, you define if you want to restrict the number of resources to a certain number or make them unlimited...