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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)

Summary

With this chapter, you have understood the order fulfillment functionality when working with CRM sales orders. After going through this chapter, you should be well versed in the topics around SAP CRM order integration with GATP and general settings required to set up an ATP check in SAP APO and understand GATP basic methods and advanced methods, as well as how to set up transportation and scheduling with GATP and BOP. Having GATP integrated with a sales order provides basic and advanced ATP check capability to fulfill business needs. This chapter has enabled you to understand the advanced features of SAP APO when it comes to ATP check methods such as ATP plus allocation, RBA checks, MISL, CTP, and MATP. The concept of BOP helps you to understand re-shuffling orders per customer delivery priority.

Once a sales order is created in SAP CRM and fulfilled by running an ATP check with SAP APO, the order is pushed to transportation planning to understand any other constraints on...