Toolkit for SAP consultants

The sales-and-operations-planning process is used by many companies to coordinate efforts of different functional units, including Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Operations, for medium-term supply-chain planning. SOP is mainly about sales-driven forecasting and consolidating and uses neutral figures in contrast to MRP/CRP. The forecast of demand, being at the very beginning of the supply chain, has a huge impact on the company's costs. That is why the high accuracy of the demand forecast is the key to the absence of losses throughout the supply chain and one of the most important tasks for the optimal operation of the company as a whole. This process entails two main stages:  Demand Planning to determine the supply requirement, and  Supply planning to meet these supply requirements. Sales and Operations Planning is one of the levels of Supply Chain Planning: Profit plan Sales & Operations Planning  Master production schedule  Material planning  Factory plan ( Line scheduling

Business partners may fall behind on payments. The system can send them a payment reminder or a dunning notice to remind them of their outstanding debts. The SAP System allows to dun business partners automatically. The system duns the open items from business partner accounts in which the overdue items create a debit balance. Process flow Creating Dunning Proposals Editing Dunning Proposals Set dunning blocks Reset dunning blocks Change dunning levels Printing Dunning Notices  The highest dunning level determined is stored in the master record of the account when you print the letters. This dunning level determines the dunning text and (if one is required) a special dunning form. Dunning levels are raised or reduced either by the dunning program or manually. The Dunning level is used in Credit management (SD-BF-CM component). Information https://help.sap.com/saphelp_dbm800/helpdata/en/c0/ebd353ca9f4408e10000000a174cb4/frameset.htm

Records Management is a standard solution for the electronic management of records by converting paper records to electronic records. Case Management Case Management is a component for processing incidents, for example, a customer complaint or a late delivery. The system displays an overview of all the information relating to a case on one screen, and enables electronic forwarding of the case to other users. Transaction SCASE Example: Credit Limit Request. Information SAP Record management, help documentation 

This component contains functions for processing receivables-related dispute cases.  It supplements the logistics process chain Purchase Order – Delivery – Invoice – Payment in the stage between invoice and payment if there are discrepancies with the customer. In business relationships, business partners frequently reduce the amounts of payments . These reductions have usually not been agreed with the payment recipient and therefore, the payment recipient has to investigate and resolve them. Information: SAP help documentation, Dispute management 

SAP Credit Management is a component of FSCM(*). SAP Credit Management will replace completely ECC CM. Credit management aims at reducing the risks of financial losses and allow to the optimization of functions of the credit control department.  Just for information: SAP Credit Management (FIN-FSCM-CR) is a separate application for centralized management.   The business systems connected report the commitment of a business partner to SAP Credit Management (FIN-FSCM-CR) via XML. In SAP S/4HANA No additional license is required for using the “Basic” Credit Management solution. However, to use additional functionality like scorecards, a utomatic determination of limits, workflow, integration of external credit information  SAP-clients must acquire License. Content:  Credit management processes Document decision Credit check with the parent-child relationship  Mass data changes Credit limit request Sales order credit check Recreate the credit exposures  Business partner credit master data 

The supply-chain operations reference (SCOR) model is a process reference model developed and endorsed by the Supply Chain Council as the cross-industry, standard diagnostic tool for the supply chain management. The SCOR model describes the business activities associated with satisfying a customer's demand, which includes a plan, source, make, deliver, return and enable Processes Plan Plan supply chain Plan source Plan make Plan Deliver Plan return Source Source stocked product Source Make-to-order product Source Engineer-to-Order product Make Make-to-stock product Make-to-order product Engineer-to-order Deliver Deliver stocked product Deliver Make-to-order product Deliver Engineer-to-Order product Deliver retail product Return Enable Business rules Performance Data and information Human resources Constraints Network Regulatory compliance Risk Procurement Technology Performance Reliability The Reliability attribute addresses the ability to perform tasks as required. Reliability foc