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Implementing Order to Cash Process in SAP

By : Chandrakant Agarwal
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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)

Chapter 8: Order Fulfillment with SAP APO

This chapter covers how order fulfillment is executed in SAP Advanced Planner and Optimizer (APO). When a customer places an order with a customer-requested date, the system should be able to fulfill the customer's demand. This means the product should be available for the date they have requested. To fulfill the order, the system runs an Available to Promise (ATP) check. This chapter describes the complete functionality around how ATP works to fulfill customer requirements with SAP APO. This chapter also covers understanding the different options of an ATP check when triggering it from a sales order created in SAP CRM. In order to work through order fulfillment, it is important to understand the different options that are available to run an ATP check on a sales order. To confirm the order on the correct date, the planners need to work on getting or reshuffling orders based on the requested date on the sales order.

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