Implementing SAP ERP Sales & Distribution

Overview

Your Hands-On Guide to SAP ERP Sales & Distribution  

Written by senior SAP consultant Glynn Williams, Implementing SAP ERP Sales & Distribution is packed with tested, time-saving tips and advice. Learn how to use SAP ERP Central Component 5.0 and 6.0 to create sales documents and contracts, control material and customer master data, schedule deliveries, and automate billing. You'll also find out how to deliver robust financial and transactional reports, track customer and credit information, and interoperate with other SAP modules.

• Configure and manage the SAP ERP SD module
• Track sales, shipping, and payment status using master records
• Create multi-level sales documents and item proposals
• Develop contracts and rebate agreements
• Deliver materials and services requirements to the supply chain
• Plan deliveries, routes, and packaging using Logistics Execution
• Perform resource-related, collective, and self billing
• Generate pricing reports, incompletion logs, and hierarchies
• Handle credit limits, payment guarantees, and customer blocks
• Integrate user exits, third-party add-ons, and data sharing
• Configure pricing procedures and complex pricing condition types

Table of contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Introduction and Master Data
Chapter 2. Master Data Configuration
Chapter 3. Sales Documents
Chapter 4. Contracts and Special Processes
Chapter 5. Available to Promise and Transfer of Requirements
Chapter 6. Logistics Execution Process
Chapter 7. Billing
Chapter 8. Pricing and Taxes
Chapter 9. Diverse Sales and Distribution Functions
Chapter 10. Credit Management, Receivable Risk Management, Blocks, and Calendars
Chapter 11. Advanced Consultant Tools
Appendix A: Transaction Codes Related to Sales and Distribution
Index

Biographical note

Glynn C. Williams has consulted and implemented SAP SD in more than 34 countries, having been on location in more than 17 countries within the last decade. He is the author of the bestselling prior edition of this book, Implementing SAP R/3 Sales & Distribution. Glynn's clients are among some of the world's largest companies, including Hewlett-Packard, Honeywell, and Schneider Electric.