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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)

Chapter 9: Transportation Requirements in SAP TMS

This chapter covers the complete functionality around how transportation requirements are realized in SAP Transportation Management System (TMS). When a sales order is created, the order replicates in SAP TMS, which creates a transportation requirement in SAP TMS. The transportation process starts with the transportation services being requested, followed by transportation planning, which results in the transportation requirement being consumed. This chapter will cover the different transportation requirement options, including order-based transportation requirements and delivery-based transportation requirements. This chapter will also cover how to record these transportation requirements and the configuration that's required to achieve this.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • Transportation management
  • Transportation requirements and sales order processing

By the end of this chapter, you...