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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)

General settings to activate an ATP check in SAP APO

When working through integrating an ATP check from SAP CRM to SAP APO, there are settings required to be set in SAP APO apart from the ATP profile in CRM and the requirements profile in APO. In this section of the chapter, we will cover some of the basic configuration that is mandatory for an ATP check to work from SAP CRM to SAP APO.

Maintaining global settings for an availability check

The first step is to maintain the global settings for an availability check in SAP APO.

Figure 8.11 shows the configuration for both global settings:

Figure 8.11 – ATP global settings

Figure 8.11 – ATP global settings

Here, you maintain the settings to import customizing data using the CIF integration model in the connected ECC system. You have the option of Allowed/Not allowed. Figure 8.12 shows ATP buckets where you define the ATP bucket parameters:

Figure 8.12 – ATP buckets

Here, you specify the ATP...