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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)

Transportation and scheduling with GATP

Transportation and scheduling with SAP GATP provides the consistent and automatic scheduling of the sales order, based on the delivery date requested by the customer. Transportation and scheduling in GATP calculates the following dates when the sales order line item runs the ATP check:

  • Unloading date
  • Delivery date
  • Goods issue date
  • Loading date
  • Transportation planning
  • Material availability date

SAP APO has provided the following options to determine these dates, which are mentioned next:

  • Scheduling using the condition technique
  • Scheduling using SNP master data (transportation lane)
  • Configurable process scheduling
  • Scheduling with dynamic route determination

The system uses the transportation and scheduling functionality to provide scheduling dates based on configuration done for the different options mentioned previously. If you configure and the prerequisite for configurable process...