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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)

Warehouse structure

A warehouse is a physical location where goods are inventoried. Optimizing warehouse space and keeping the product at the appropriate location within the warehouse helps you track and ship products in a timely fashion. SAP warehouse management provides an automated way of processing goods movement in a complex warehouse setup. Warehouse management is integrated with inventory management, quality management, production supply, delivery processing, and transportation. If you are not using warehouse management, then the lowest level of your inventory will be at the storage location level.

The warehouse structure assignment process can be seen in the following diagram:

Figure 5.1 – Warehouse master data structure

Figure 5.1 – Warehouse master data structure

The warehouse that's created by the system is assigned to the storage location; the storage type is assigned to the warehouse; the storage section is assigned to the storage type; and the storage bins are assigned...