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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)

SAP CRM order integration with global ATP

Orders created in SAP CRM undergo an ATP check that is based on the configuration in SAP CRM. The configuration within SAP CRM determines which system is the leading system to run the ATP check. This could be the SAP APO or SAP ERP system. Figure 8.3 shows a diagrammatic representation of an availability check being carried out via the SAP ERP and SAP APO systems:

Figure 8.3 – Availability check overview

Let's examine each of these scenarios in detail in the following subsections.

Availability check using APO

A manufacturer or supplier using the SAP APO system would mostly leverage the ATP check functionality on a sales order using Global Available to Promise (GATP). SAP CRM is connected to SAP SCM and BAPI calls are triggered to carry out ATP, shipment scheduling, and transportation scheduling on the sales order line items created from the SAP CRM system.

Using SAP APO compared to SAP ERP for triggering...