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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 TMS master data; that is, organization structure, products, business partners, transportation networks, and resource master. The concept of master data transfer between SAP ECC and SAP TMS is the same as what we covered in Chapter 3, Master Data in SAP APO. This chapter provided you with a good understanding of the TMS master data that helps in successfully executing transportation planning. This chapter also helped you understand how to set up master data – primarily the transportation network and the resource master, which are important elements to understand.

Any issues with this data impacts the transportation planning and shipment processing phases. This chapter helped teach you how to minimize and reduce risks related to master data and made sure you understood the details around how they're set up.

In the next chapter, we will cover the warehouse master data in SAP ECC. We will cover the warehouse structure flow...