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Solution Details
SAP Business All-in-One rapid-deployment
solution

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Contents
Overview of SAP Rapid Deployment Solutions
Overview of the Solution
Solution in Detail – Scope Items for:
o Research and Development
o Manufacturing
o Sales
o Materials Management
o Service
o Financial Accounting
o Controlling
o Cross Functions
o Analytics
Service Delivery
Technical Details

Overview of SAP Rapid
Deployment solutions

SAP Rapid Deployment solutions
Fast
•Quickly address specific needs
• Gain fast time to value with seamless
rapid-deployment tools, embedded best
practices
• Speed end-user adoption with guides and
educational materials
Simple
• Clearly priced services and project time
frames – help ensure a predictable outcome
• Modular yet integrated solutions – help
ensure long-term landscape integrity
• Support across all environments (on-
premise, mobile, and cloud) – leveraging
the cloud to accelerate projects and
deployment
A complete solution
Deployed in weeks

What’s in each solution?
Software
Quickly address the most urgent business
processes
Content
SAP-supported best practices, templates,
and tools make solution adoption easier
Enablement
Guides and educational material speed
end-user adoption
Service
Fixed scope and price provide maximum
predictability and lower risk
SAP Rapid
Deployment
solutions

Business challenges There is a solution
 Achieve centralized control of finance and
operations in weeks using the SAP Business All-
in-One rapid-deployment solution, which includes
preconfigured software, fixed scope and price
implementation services, content, and user
enablement.
Achieve centralized control of finance and operations in weeks
Do you struggle with:
 Difficulty meeting the changing and growing
expectations of your customers and the market
 Current software is constraining growth,
operational efficiency, and customer satisfaction
 Monitoring organizational performance and
identifying inefficiencies and opportunities for
growth
 Workarounds to existing processes result in a
fragmented, inconsistent view of the state of
business
 Unknowns and risks surrounding software
acquisition and implementation
 Long implementation times leading to cost
overruns and reducing the return on investment

 8 - 12 week implementation
 Use the same software as the largest companies in your
industry, preconfigured for fast adoption
 Achieve maximum predictability through implementation
services that are fixed scope and price
 Use tools that accelerate configuration, control, cost, and
scope, and lay the solution’s foundation
 Support faster end-user adoption through enablement
materials
 Extend your solution by configuring industry-specific
business processes
 Add integrated rapid-deployment solutions to address
changing business needs
SAP Business All-in-One rapid-deployment solution

SAP Business All-in-One rapid-deployment solution
Effectively manage your most important end-to-end business processes in one comprehensive and integrated
solution with SAP Business All-in-One rapid-deployment solution –
Available in 37 localized country versions
Developed in accordance with the legal requirements and country-specific needs
APJ
 Australia
 China
 Indonesia
 Japan
 Korea
 Malaysia
 Philippines
 Thailand
EMEA
 Arabic countries
 Belgium
 Croatia
 France
 Germany
 Greece
 Israel
 Italy
 The
Netherlands
 Norway
 Poland
 Portugal
 Russia
 Spain
 South Africa
 Sweden
 Switzerland
 Turkey
 UK
 Ukraine
Americas
 Argentina
 Brazil
 Colombia
 Canada
 Equador
 Mexico
 Panama
 US
 Venezuela

Business benefits Measurable success
 IT spend as % of revenue
 Time to report period results
 Invoice accuracy %
 Cash flow improvement %
 On-time delivery to customer request (%)
 Days of inventory and inventory turns
 Manufacturing cycle time
 Days sales outstanding (DSO)
 Material cost reduction %
 Return on capital employed (ROCE)
Benefits for you
This rapid-deployment solution will help you to:
 Adapt to changing business needs by broadening
existing footprint or extending current application
 Support multiple countries, languages, and
currencies
 Increase implementation project success rate
 Use automated tools for accurate budgeting and
scoping
 Provide a defined project scope and
preconfigured functionality to support business
processes
 Lower total cost of ownership with
comprehensive, pretested SAP software
 Align business and IT goals
 Future-proof IT investments by extending with
integrated and modular rapid-deployment
solutions
 Maximize flexibility for future business needs

What‘s in SAP Business All-in-One rapid-deployment solution?
Scope itemsScope items
Research and Development
 Internal Product Development
 Reference and Simulation Costing
A Compelling Business Solution
Delivered Quickly And Affordably
Manufacturing
 Logistics Planning
 Make-to-Stock Production: Discrete Industry
 Make-to-Stock Production: Process Industry
 Make-to-Order Production with Variant
Configuration
 Make-to-Order Production without Variant
Configuration
 Repetitive Manufacturing
 Production Subcontracting (External Processing)
 Rework Processing (Stock-Manufactured
Material)
 Quarterly Plan: Sales Quantity Forecast with CO-
PA
 Rework Processing (Work-in-Process)

Sales
 Sales Processing using Third-Party
(with Shipping Notification)
 Credit Management
 Sales Order Processing – Sale from Stock
 Free of Charge Delivery (n/a Hungary)
 Returns and Complaints (n/a Hungary, Poland)
 Sales Quotation
 Sales Order Processing for Prospect
 Sales Processing using Third-Party (n/a Greece)
(without Shipping Notification)
 Sales of Non-stock Item with Order
Specific Procurement
 Debit Memo Processing (n/a Poland)
 Lean Warehouse Management
Sales cont.
 Sales Order Processing with Customer
Down Payment
 Period-End Closing Operations in Sales
 Credit Memo Processing (n/a Hungary, Poland)
 Serial Number Management
 Customer Consignment Processing (n/a Greece)
 Returnable Processing
 Rebate Processing: Free Goods (n/a Korea,
Russia, Malaysia, Greece)
 Batch Recall
 Sales Order Processing with Collective Billing
(n/a Malaysia, Hungary)
 Cross-Company Sales Order Processing (n/a
Hungary, Romania, Slovakia)
 Nota Fiscal Electronica (Brazil)
 Correction Invoice and Return (Poland, Hungary)
 Free of Charge Delivery of Trading Goods
(Greece)

Materials Management
 Quotation for Procurement
 Consumable Purchasing
 Procurement without Quality Management
 Stock Handling: Scrap and Blocked Stock
 Procurement Contract
 Stock Transfer with Delivery
 Stock Transfer without Delivery
 Return to Vendor
 Physical Inventory / Inventory Count and
Adjustment
 Batch Management
 Quality Management for Procurement with Vendor
Evaluation
 Subcontracting
 Procurement and Consumption of Consigned
Inventory
 Procurement of Third-party Resources
Materials Management cont.
 External Procurement of Services
 Internal Procurement: Cross-Company Stock
Transfer (n/a Hungary, Romania, Slovakia,
Greece)
Service
 Depot Repair
 Internal Maintenance
 Internal Project
 Period End Closing Service Orders
 Project with Fixed Price and T&M Billing
 Sales of Planned Services
 Sales Order with Fixed Price and T&M Billing
 Service Contract with Periodic Billing
 Service with Fixed Price Billing
 Service with Time and Material based Billing
 Spot Consulting with Fixed Price Billing

Accounting
 General Ledger Accounting
 Accounts Receivable
 Accounts Payable
 Period-End Closing in Financial Accounting
 Cash Management (n/a Croatia)
 Asset Accounting
 Asset Acquisition through Direct Capitalization
 Asset Acquisition for Constructed Assets
(Investment Orders) (n/a Hungary, Greece)
 Cost of Sales Accounting (n/a Hungary, Greece)
 Activate Document Splitting
 Segment Reporting (n/a Greece)
 Petty Cash Management (Thailand)
 Cash Journal (Russia and Ukraine)
 General Ledger Accounting – (China)
 Accounts Receivable – (China)
 Accounts Payable – (China)
Controlling
 Period-End Closing in Financial Accounting –
(China)
 General Cost Center Planning
 Internal Order for Research and Development
Planning
 Internal Order for Marketing Expenses and Other
Overhead Planning
 Overhead Cost Accounting Actual
 Internal Order for Research and Development
Actual
 Internal Order for Marketing Expenses and Other
Overhead Actual
 Revenue Planning
 SOP through Long Term Planning Transfer to LIS
/ PIS / Capacity
 Purchased Material Price Planning
 Manufacturing Cost Center Planning
 Standard Cost Calculation

Cross Functions
 Travel Management (n/a Poland)
 Time Recording
 Period-End Closing “General” Plant
 Inventory Valuation for Year-End Closing (n/a
Japan)
 Period-End Closing Projects
 Period-End Closing Activities
 Inflation Management (Venezuela, Mexico)
Analytics
 SAP ERP Reports for Logistics
 SAP ERP Reports for Accounting

Scope items
Research and DevelopmentResearch and Development

Internal Product Development
Purpose
SAP Product Lifecycle Management provides the project management functions to collect all costs and
documents for product development.
Key process flows covered
 Assign documents (KPR) to the material
masters of the finished product
 Create projects based on templates
 Create change numbers for design projects
 Display the bills of material of new products
 Redisplay the bills of material (effects of
change numbers)
 Bills of material status management
 Assign revision levels to the material
masters of new products
 Estimate material costs for new products
before and after bills of material changes
(effects of changes on prices is shown)
 Calculate materials
 Record development (engineering) activities
 Execute closing and settlement of projects
Business benefits
 Structures projects
 Simplifies preliminary costing for complex
projects
 Ensures data consistency through revision levels
Screenshot shows optional SAP NetWeaver Business Client 3.0

Reference and Simulation Costing
Purpose
Provides the data required for management decisions as to the manufacture of products, the provision of
services, or whether the product should be produced internally or externally.
 Create and assign costs to base planning objects
 Analyze results
 Change base planning objects
 Execute reports from Information System
Business benefits
 Provides a transparent view of a base planning
object

Scope items
ManufacturingManufacturing

Manufacturing
Logistics Planning
Purpose
Includes the transfer of aggregated planning data based on sales quantity planning to Long Term Planning.
After simulation runs the demand may then transferred to active demand management.
 Execute Sales and Operations Planning
 Execute Long-Term Planning
Business benefits
 Provides seamless integration in complete
planning cycle from CO-PA via Sales and
Operations Planning and Long-Term Planning
to Demand Planning

Manufacturing
Make-to-Stock Production: Discrete Industry
Purpose
Supports the manufacturing processes of goods stored in inventory prior to receipt of an order. Orders are
usually filled from existing stock, and inventory is replenished based on production orders.
 Create planned independent requirements
 Plan material requirements at plant level
 Execute in-house production (subassembly)
 Execute in-house final assembly (finished goods)
 Level capacities
 Confirm assembly activities
Business benefits
 Triggers production by a production plan
 Includes serial number and batch management
 Provides integration options with: quality
management, consigned inventory, and external
processing

Manufacturing
Make-to-Stock Production: Process Industry
Purpose
Batch–oriented process manufacturing commonly used in the following industries: chemical,
pharmaceutical, food and beverage industries and the batch–oriented electronics industry.
 Execute Material Requirements Planning
(MRP)
 Execute Make-to-Stock (MTS) production for
semi-finished and finished products
Business benefits
 Enables recipe-oriented production
 Handles materials in batches according to a
recipe specified for the appropriate production
quantity
 Offers cost object controlling

Manufacturing
Make-to-Order Production with Variant Configuration
Purpose
Manufacturing environment where the final product is usually a combination of standard items and items
custom-designed for this customer.
 Process sales orders for configurable materials
 Execute manufacturing
 Execute deliveries
 Execute billing
 Execute plant closing
 Execute company closing
Business benefits
 Represents variants of a product over one
configurable material
 Enables Sales and Operations Planning for
predefined material variants

Manufacturing
Make-to-Order Production without Variant Configuration
Purpose
Manufacturing environment where you produce a product for a order: includes quotation, manufacture,
shipping, invoice, and payment. Options: serial number creation, subcontracting, QM, and more.
 Create quotation headers
 Create follow on quotations with reference to
first quotation
 Change quotations based on customer
requests
 Create sales orders with reference to accepted
follow on quotations
 Check customer credit limits
 Send order confirmations to customers and
start production processes
 Execute milestone billing – post down
payments after order confirmations
 Manage technical changes based on customer
requests
 Recalculate sales orders and bills of material
 Execute deliveries and billing of finished goods
Business benefits
 Provides quotation history
 Offers billing plans including down payments
 Enables change management in production

Manufacturing
Repetitive Manufacturing
Purpose
Repetitive manufacturing is distinguished by the production of discrete units, usually at very high speeds
and quantities in which materials tend to move in a continuous flow during production.
 Plan material requirements at plant level
 Execute in-house production
 Confirm assembly activities
Business benefits
 Simplifies handling of the production process
 Provides full cost control

Manufacturing
Production Subcontracting (External Processing)
Purpose
Outlines the steps required for processing of individual production steps during manufacturing outside of
your company by a vendor (subcontractor).
 Create purchase orders for external processing
 Post goods receipts for “subcontracting”
purchase orders
 Post invoices
 Execute periodic payments
Business benefits
 Specifies that a certain operation of the
production order is executed by an external
subcontractor on a regular basis via outline
agreements
 Offers assignment of the assembly procedure
of the finished product to a subcontractor in
case of capacity bottlenecks

Manufacturing
Rework Processing (Stock-Manufactured Material)
Purpose
Focuses on the rework manufacturing steps including: production execution, creating a new production
order, reusing the rework material, collecting and allocating the associated costs and variances.
 Create rework production orders
 Post goods issues for defective materials
 Confirm rework production activities
 Post goods receipts for rework production
orders
Business benefits
 Provides transparency on costs for rework
activities
 Offers usage of all standard shop-floor control
functionalities

Manufacturing
Quarterly Plan: Sales Quantity Forecast with CO-PA
Purpose
The sales forecast is reviewed and updated on a quarterly basis.
 Execute sales quantity planning on basis of
actual data
 Execute transfer to Sales and Operations
Planning
Business benefits
 Provides integration to Sales and Production
 Offers data planning in spreadsheet

Manufacturing
Rework Processing (Work-in-Process)
Purpose
Addresses the work performed to correct defects in a product after it has been manufactured. The cost of
rework is interpreted as a variance.
 Confirm production activities
 Confirm scrap defective material
 Confirm parent order at rework operation
 Continue shop-floor activities
Business benefits
 Automatically triggers rework process based on
scraps at defined operation
 Lets you confirm additional activity and material
consumption after rework
 Is fully integrated into the production process Screenshot shows optional SAP NetWeaver Business Client 3.0

Sales
Sales Processing using Third-Party (with Shipping Notification)
 Create third-party sales orders
 Convert purchase requisitions to purchase orders
 Approve purchase orders
 Post statistical goods receipts
 Verify invoices
 Execute billing
Business benefits
 Reduces stock and cost
 Increases efficiency
 Direct handover of customer’s requirements to
external supplier
 Invoice from trader to customer based on
quantities from supplier invoice
 Fulfils customer’s requirements despite material
shortage
Purpose
The order is passed to a third party vendor who ships the goods to the customer and bills you.

Sales
Credit Management
Purpose
Credit limit check with increase, stop access for customer and partners; block individual purchases can be
performed. Customers' credit profile can also be displayed.
 Enter sales orders
 Check credit limits
 Block sales orders
 Release sales orders
 Process delivery
Business benefits
 Reduces risk of bad debt
 Focus on reliable and profitable
customers
 Faster credit-worthiness check
 Accelerates the process of checking a
customer credit limit
 Identifies the overall credit risk of your
company
Screenshots show optional SAP NetWeaver Business Client 3.0

Sales
Sales Order Processing – Sale from Stock
Purpose
Includes all steps of a business cycle from sales order creation, delivery, picking, goods issue and billing
procedure.
 Create sales orders
 Confirm sales orders
 Pick and ship items
 Post goods issue
 Execute billing
Business benefits
 Performs availability check and
automatically determines a shipping point
when an order is entered
 Creates billing document and postings for
Financials and Controlling

Sales
Free of Charge Delivery
Purpose
Creates a non-billing relevant sales order, delivery the goods are subsequently picked, confirmed, and
delivered to the customer.
 Create sales orders with free of charge items
Business benefits
 System integration of free of charge delivery
with sales order processing

Sales
Returns and Complaints
Purpose
Creates a complaint and credit memo followed by shipping the goods back with a quality check and goods
are moved to unrestricted or blocked stock.
 Process return delivery
 Execute billing
 Post payments
Business benefits
 System integration of customer returns with
complaints processing

Sales
Sales Quotation
Purpose
In response to the customer's request for quotation (RFQ), a quotation is created in the SAP system. The
customer can then either accept or reject the quotation.
 Create sales quotations and send to customers
 Create third-party sales orders and generate
purchase requisitions automatically
 Create sales orders with a billing plan
 Create delivery
 Post goods issues
 Create invoices
 Execute billing
Business benefits
 Performs availability check and automatically determines
a shipping point when an order is entered
 Reduces stock and costs
 Fulfills customer requirements despite of material shortage
 Direct handover of customer requirements to external supplier
 Assures business partners that a certain product configuration and quantity will be delivered at a specific
time and price
 Provides a variety of special sales order and sales quotation processing functions for sales employees

Sales
Sales Order Processing for Prospect
Purpose
A customer with a temporary customer ID is used to investigate an order without looking up the customer's
account. The order can be saved but remains incomplete until a valid customer is entered
 Create sales orders without having the
customer’s account number
 Create customer master records
 Assign customer account numbers
 Execute billing
Business benefits
 Sales orders can be processed without
the customer’s account number
 Automatically determines materials for
sales order entry

Sales
Sales Processing using Third-Party (without Shipping Notification)
Purpose
The order is passed to third party vendor who ships the goods and bills the customer. The incoming invoice
from vendor triggers the customer billing documents.
 Create third-party sales orders
 Convert purchase requisitions to
purchase orders
 Verify invoices
 Execute billing
Business benefits
 Reduces stock and cost
 Direct handover of customer’s
requirements to external supplier
 Invoice from trader to customer based
on quantities from supplier invoice
 Fulfils customer’s requirements despite
material shortage

Sales
Sales of Nonstock Item with Order Specific Procurement
Purpose
For items not in stock, a purchase requisition and order is generated and sent to your supplier who ships
the order via a trading partner. You can then track and enter shipping and billing.
 Convert purchase requisitions to
purchase orders
 Post goods receipt
 Verify invoices
 Execute billing
Business benefits
 Direct handover of customer’s
requirements to external supplier
 Material is sent from external supplier to
trader with the trader staying in charge
for the complete delivery process
 Fulfils customer’s requirements despite
of material shortage

Sales
Debit Memo Processing
Purpose
An Invoice Increase Request (Debit memo) is created with the debited amount, placed on a billing block,
then released to become billing-relevant, and appears on the billing due list.
 Create debit memo requests
 Remove billing blocks (review debit memo
requests)
 Execute billing
Business benefits
 System integration of debit memo processing

Sales
Lean Warehouse Processing
Purpose
Provides a warehousing structure in which you can use transfer orders as pick orders even in warehouses
with a simple structure.
 Print picking documents automatically when
a delivery for a Warehouse Management
relevant storage location is created
Business benefits
 Automatically prints a picking document
when a delivery is created for a storage
location which is assigned to a warehouse
 Transport orders from warehouse
management not needed

Sales
Sales Order Processing with Customer Down Payment
Purpose
Down payments are payments made, without interest, before completion of the product, and represent
short or medium term outside capital procurement. This improves the company’s liquidity.
 Create sales order entries
 Remove billing blocks
 Execute billing
 Post down payments
 Execute billing
 Clear down payment
Business benefits
 System integration of sales order processing
with customer down payments Screenshot shows optional SAP NetWeaver Business Client 3.0

Sales
Period-End Closing Operations in Sales
Purpose
Covers the periodic processing of sales orders for period end closing, such as price revaluation, results
analysis and settlement.
 Review blocked sales orders
 Review incomplete sales orders
 Review sales documents blocked for delivery
 Review sales documents due for delivery
 Review log of collective delivery creation
 Review incomplete SD documents (deliveries)
 Review outbound deliveries for goods issue
 Review sales documents blocked for billing
 Review billing due list
 Review log of collective invoice creation
 Review list blocked (for accounting) billing documents
 Create Intrastat and Extrastat
 Calculate work in process (Service Provider)
 Settle sales orders to profitability analysis (Service
Provider)
Business benefits
 Provides a SD periodic activities overview

Sales –
Credit Memo Processing
Purpose
Credits a customer account if the customer was overcharged due to a pricing, sales tax error, or omitted
discount. The credit memo request is blocked for further processing so as to be checked.
 Create credit memo requests
 Remove billing blocks (review credit
memo requests)
 Execute billing
Business benefits
 System integration of credit memo
processing

Sales
Serial Number Management
Purpose
Using serial numbers, you can track each individual material during goods movement. This scenario
shows the serial number handling on finished goods level.
 Definition of serial number profile and serializing
procedures
 Equipment categories for serialization
 Settings for physical inventory
Business benefits
 Integration of serial number management in all
logistics processes
 Integrated use of one serial number profile in
logistics and services

Sales
Customer Consignment Processing
Purpose
Manage, transfer and track inventory sold on a consignment basis. Company retains ownership of the
inventory at your customer’s site until sold by your customer to the final consumer.
 Fill-up consignments
 Issues consignments
 Pick-up consignments
 Return consignments
 Process pickings and shipments
 Execute billing
Business benefits
 Offers separate consignment stock
management for each customer
 Offers to separate the consignment stock
management from the rest of your stock Screenshot shows optional SAP NetWeaver Business Client 3.0

Sales
Rebate Processing: Free Goods
Purpose
Free goods are provided as rebate when the respective order amount is reached.
 Create direct mailings to customer
 Prepare follow-up processes for the return of
batches
 Receive returned batches into return stocks
 Decide on further usage of returned stocks
 Create credit memos for customers
Business benefits
 Provides integrated follow-up process to the
former delivered batch
 Offers to separate the management of return
stock from the rest of your stock

Sales
Returnables Processing
Purpose
Comprises the ability to capture returnable packaging such as pallets back into inventory.
 Pick and ship items and add returnable
packaging
 Add returnable packaging to deliveries
 Create returnable packaging return orders
 Debit unreturned packaging
 Post goods issues for unreturned packaging
Business benefits
 Comprises the management of returnables
using the ERP returnable packaging logistics
functions
 Offers tracking of returnables Screenshot shows optional SAP NetWeaver Business Client 3.0

Sales
Batch Recall
Purpose
A defect batch is identified and must be recalled from customers and prospects who have received the
batch.
 Print order confirmations
 Process deliveries
 Execute picking
 Execute billing
Business benefits
 Automatically performs an availability check
and automatically determines a shipping point
when an order is entered
 Automatically determines inclusive free goods
 Creates billing document and posts to
Financials and Controlling

Sales
Sales Order Processing with Collective Billing
Purpose
Describes the entire process of a standard distribution process in the mass execution. The process begins
with the creation of several standard customer orders.
 Execute collective runs for deliveries
 Execute pickings
 Execute collective runs for billing
Business benefits
 Provides cost optimization in collecting customer
orders due to deliver to the same customer in
one delivery via a collective run
 Provides cost optimization in collecting deliveries
to the same customer for one invoice via a
collective run Screenshot shows optional SAP NetWeaver Business Client 3.0

Sales
Cross-Company Sales Order Processing
Purpose
A customer places an order for goods which you can’t fill but can be sourced & shipped from another plant
belonging to a company in your group. You invoice the customer & inter-company billing is used..
 A sales order is entered
 A delivery is created
 The goods issue is posted
 The billing is created
 Intercompany document is created
Business benefits
 Sales organization and supplying plant can be in
different company codes

Sales
Nota Fiscal Electronica (Brazil)
Purpose
This scenario describes the processes of the Nota Fiscal Electronica to the processes of Nota Fiscal
Electronic Cancel, Contingency, Nota Fiscal Skipping and numeric GAPs.
 Electronic Nota Fiscal Cancel
 Switched or Posted under Contingency
 NF-e Switched to Contingency – NF-e Writer
 NF-e Switched to Contingency (Only Cancel) –
MM
 NF-e Switched to Contingency – SD
 NF-e Posted Under Contingency
 Nota Fiscal Electronic Skipping
 Nota Fiscal Electronic Gap’s Skipping
Business benefits
 Contingency procedures for output Nota Fiscal
Eletronica
 Procedures for Cancel and Skipping of Nota
Fiscal Electronic / Gaps Numbering

Sales
Correction Invoice and Return (Poland, Hungary)
Purpose
The invoice correction process is used for applying a credit or debit to a customer account once a
determination has been made that a customer has been over- or undercharged as a result of a pricing or
sales tax rate error. This credit or debit is in the form of invoice correction.
If the customer returns the goods then the return process is integrated with credit processing.
 Create Invoice Correction Request with Reference
to Invoice
 Create return request (optionally)
 Create Return Delivery (optionally)
 Post Goods Receipt (optionally)
 Remove Billing Block
 Create Invoice Correction
Business benefits
 System integrated sales order processing with
invoice correction, which reference from Billing

Sales
Free of Charge Delivery of Trading Goods (Greece)
Purpose
Extension of scenario 110 for Trading Goods handling in Greece.
 A sales order is created
 A delivery is created
 The goods issue is posted
 A billing document is created
 An accounting document is posted
Business benefits
 System Integrated Free of Charge sales order
processing

Scope items
Materials ManagementMaterials Management

Quotation for Procurement
Purpose
Simulates pricing scenarios, allowing you to compare a number of different quotations. Rejection letters can
be sent automatically.
 Create request for quotations
 List quotations
 Maintain quotations
 Compare, select and reject vendors
 Maintain source list
Business benefits
 Captures material-specific information
including vendor pricing and lead-time from
the sales quotation within master data records
 System-supported sales quotation process
 Ensures automated and efficient processing Screenshot shows optional SAP NetWeaver Business Client 3.0

Consumable Purchasing
Purpose
Describes purchase order approval, goods receipt of consumables, approval of service entry sheets and
invoice receipts. On goods receipt, the material or service counts as having been consumed.
 Create purchase orders for consumable goods
 Approve purchase orders for consumables
 Post goods receipt of consumables
 Create purchase orders services
 Create service entry sheets
 Approve service entry sheets
 Create invoice receipts by line item
 Execute period-end closing for plants
Business benefits
 Ensures quick one-time-purchases with
material consumption directly posted, and
no posting into storage
 Uses service entry sheets as inspection
report of performed services

Procurement without Quality Management
Purpose
Provides processes to initiate and manage the purchasing of stock including Request for Quotation,
Purchase Requisitions, Purchase orders, and Goods Receipt of Product.
 Display and assign purchase requisitions
 Convert assigned purchase requisitions
to purchase orders or create purchase
orders manually
 Change purchase orders
 Print purchase orders
 Receive goods from vendors
 Post outgoing payments
Business benefits
 Uses integrative data sets like purchasing info
records
 Allows processing of role-specific work lists

Stock Handling: Scrap and Blocked Stock
Purpose
Returns process, rework from production, other logistic processes, and devaluation of material to another
material number and rework of the devaluated material.
 Scrap customer returns: goods issue to CO-PA
 Scrap general stock: goods issue to cost centers
 Block materials - stock transfer unrestricted to
blocked
 Unblock materials - stock transfer blocked to
unrestricted
 Unblock materials - stock transfer blocked to
quality inspection stock
Business benefits
 Supports process-related transfer postings
 Supports legally required transfer postings

Procurement Contract
Purpose
Covers the creation and maintenance of long term contracts with vendors, and includes the creation of
Purchase Orders against the contract (call-off orders) and the ongoing monitoring of the contract.
 Create basic agreements (quantity contracts)
 Create purchase requisitions
 Assign purchase requisitions and create
purchase orders
 Monitor contracts
 Post goods receipts
Business benefits
 Reduces procurement costs
 Secures supplies
 Makes supplier agreements more transparent

Stock Transfer with Delivery
Purpose
Creation of a request to transfer stock to another site and a Delivery Note (paperwork) against which the
stock is picked and issued. Goods Receipt is carried out against the Delivery Note.
 Create stock transport purchase requisitions
(with MRP)
 Change stock transport purchase orders
(with MRP)
 Create stock transport orders (without MRP)
 Create deliveries for stock transport orders
 Display delivery due list
 Print picking confirmation
 Receive transferred material
Business benefits
 Transparent view of outstanding stock transfers
and stock-in-transit
 Enables efficient processing of internal stock
transfers

Stock Transfer without Delivery
Purpose
Creation of a request to transfer stock to another site against which the Goods Issue and subsequent Good
Receipt is carried out. Does not include creation of a Delivery Note (paperwork).
 Execute one-step stock transfer
 Create stock transport orders
 Post goods issue for stock transport orders
 Check stock transfer status
 Receive transferred materials
Business benefits
 Allows simple handling of processes that
are not relevant for delivery resulting in less
documents generated
 Offers monitoring of stock-in-transit

Return to Vendor
Purpose
Allows you to request authorization from your vendor to return purchased items, create a return in your
system, remove the items from inventory and then ship and issue a credit memo to your vendor.
 Create return purchase orders
 Display delivery due list for purchase orders
 Print picking confirmations
 Review pending credits manually
Business benefits
 Goods can be returned with a return reason
captured in the document
 All information for follow-up FI functions like
invoice reduction, rejection, cancellation,
etc. is provided Screenshot shows optional SAP NetWeaver Business Client 3.0

Physical Inventory / Inventory Count and Adjustment
Purpose
Includes the steps required to initiate, count and enter inventory/ stock changes including the steps required
to revalue stock if necessary.
 Create physical inventory documents
 Print physical inventory documents
 Execute physical counts and recounts
 Enter physical counts
 List and post physical count differences
Business benefits
 Transparent view on stocks currently available
 Enables efficient processing of inventory
adjustments

Batch Management
Purpose
Batch Management is a key functional area that manages batches throughout the entire enterprise, from
vendor receipt through distribution, with full traceability.
 Maintain batch master records
 Run batch information cockpit
Business benefits
 Allows change of batch master data
 Lets you find out where a batch was
used, e.g. to perform a batch recall or
government report
 Enables you to find out where a batch is
used, e.g. in which stocks or inspection
lots or material documents
 Ensures single point of batch
maintenance

Quality Management for Procurement with Vendor Evaluation
Purpose
Enables you to conduct and record the results of quality assurance activities (e.g., inspection of received
goods) during the procurement process.
 Create purchase orders for consumable goods
 Create purchase orders for services
 Convert assigned purchase requisitions to
purchase orders
 Approve purchase orders for consumables
 Analyze stocks currently available
 Transfer stock with or without delivery
 List and post physical count differences
 Inspect quality
 Record results / decide on usage
 Analyze defects and returns
 Evaluate vendors
Business benefits
 Uses integrative data sets like purchasing info records, source lists, and
contracts
 Enables quick one-time-purchases
 Ensures automated and efficient processing
 Transparent view on stocks currently available
 Inspection lot creation at goods receipt

Subcontracting
Purpose
Subcontract the manufacturing of materials used in your production. Creation of a purchase requisition,
ordering, the receipt of items to inventory and the processing of the subcontractor's invoice.
 Execute on goods delivery
 Create purchase orders based on scheduled
purchase requisitions created by last MRP
run
 Create purchase orders manually (optional)
 Approve purchase orders (if required)
 Process outbound deliveries
 Post goods issues for deliveries and ship to
subcontractors
Business benefits
 Bills of material explosion triggers follow-on
functions like delivery to subcontractor etc.
 Automatically posts the value flow
 Automatically posts stocks into corresponding
stock types

Procurement and Consumption of Consigned Inventory
Purpose
When procuring consignment stock, legal ownership remains with the vendor until the inventory leaves your
warehouse. The vendor periodically bills you, and re-orders are created by daily MRP runs.
 Post goods receipts to vendor consignment
stock
 Execute transfer postings of vendor
consigned stocks to own stock
 Verify invoices
 Execute General Ledger: Period-end for
plants
Business benefits
 Automatically posts goods into vendor
consignment stocks
 Less manual Financials postings required:
Upon goods issue from consignment
storage, the relevant invoice data is
transferred to Financials
 Generates and releases the vendor invoices
with periodic invoicing

Procurement of Third-party Resources
Purpose
Covers external procurement in which a purchase order is issued to a vendor with the instruction to supply
the ordered materials to, or perform the ordered services for, a third party.
 Creating a purchase order
 Confirming the goods receipt
 Entering the invoice for external maintenance
Business benefits
 Purchase Order is managed for third party
service.
Creating a purchase order

External Procurement of Services
Purpose
Covers external procurement in which a purchase order is issued to a vendor with the instruction to perform
the ordered services for, a third party.
 Maintaining a service entry sheet
 Approve the service entry sheet
 Invoice verification
Business benefits
 Giving a transparent view of outstanding
orders, shipments and inventory. The
efficient processing is automated.
Maintaining a service entry sheet

Internal Procurement: Cross-Company Stock Transfer
Purpose
Includes request to transfer stock to another site, Delivery Note against stock; picking & issuing stock,
processing the goods receipt, and entering a cross-company invoice for the transferred stock.
 Stock transport Requisition (with MRP)
 Changing stock transport purchase order
(with MRP)
 Stock transport order (without MRP)
 Delivery for stock transport order
 Delivery due list
 Picking confirmation
 Goods Issue
 Receiving transferred material
 Delivery billing
 Purchase invoice
Business benefits
 Support of all required documents for stock
transfers with delivery
 Support of all required master data aspects
like batch management and serial numbers
 Monitoring the "Stock in Transit"
 Delivery costs can be entered in the stock
transport order
 Supports inter-company billing and invoicing

 Changing the service notification
 Displaying the repair order
 Creating a return delivery with reference to sales
order
 Stock overview
 Changing a repair order - starting repairs
 Displaying the service order
 Changing the service order
 Confirming the materials used
 Posting goods issues
 Displaying serviceable materials
 Time recording
 Checking planned/actual costs
 Closing the service order technically
 Displaying equipment using equipment list
 Displaying status of repair order
 Creating a billing request
 Creating the billing document
Services
Depot Repair
Business benefits
 Manage customer contract, customer service and
order
 Provide repairs processing, inventory management
and cross-application time sheet.
 Provide equipment handling and resource-related
billing.
Purpose
Processing of service case from the initial customer reports, through warranty checking, order creation,
repair, return of goods, and billing.
Display Service Notification

 A customer contract is created
 A maintenance plan is created
 A service order is generated automatically
 The necessary material parts are ordered
 The costs are entered to the service order
 A billing document is created
Services
Sales of Planned Services
Business benefits
 Manage customer contract Service order.
 Provide maintenance scheduling, purchasing and
resource-related billing.
Purpose
Services are provided to a customer under a long-term contract and service level agreement s, costs
incurred including material are billed.
Creation of a Framework Purchase Order

 Creating service notification
 Creating a quotation (service request)
 Check the task list
 Creating a sales order
 Check the service order
 Confirming additional time to the service order
(optional)
 Goods movement
 Creating billing for the sales order
 Closing the service order – technical complete
Services
Service with Fixed Price Billing
Business benefits
 Manage customer service, sales and service order
and cross-application Time Sheet.
 Manage inventory and fixed price billing.
Purpose
Services are offered based on the service portfolio of the service provider, and billed based on a negotiated
fixed price.
Create/Process Service Products

 Creating a customer contract
 Creating a service notification
 Changing the service notification
 Creating a service order
 Time recording
 Travel management
 Confirming the materials used
 Confirming the goods receipt
 Entering the invoice for purchase order
 Displaying planned/actual costs
 Closing the service order – technical complete
 Creating the billing of contract
Services
Service Contract with Periodic Billing
Business benefits
 Manage customer contract and customer service.
 Manage service order, purchasing and periodic
billing..
Purpose
Services are rendered and periodically invoiced on a contractual agreement with the customer.
Create Service Notification with period billing

 A project is created from a standard template
 A settlement rule is generated
 Costs (time, expense, purchases) are captured
 The project is completed
Services
Service with Time and Material based Billing
Business benefits
 Provide project management, cross-application
Time Sheet and project settlement.
Purpose
Defines the planning, managing and tracking of project activities and costs of large and small-scale
projects, such as building a factory or organizing a trade fair.
Change Service Notification

 A project is created from a standard template
 A settlement rule is generated
 Costs (time, expense, purchases) are captured
 The project is completed
Services
Internal Project
Business benefits
Time Sheet and project settlement.
Purpose
Defines the planning, managing and tracking of project activities and costs of large and small-scale
projects, such as building a factory or organizing a trade fair.
Creating a project from a standard template

 Creating a quotation
 Creating a customer order
 Maintaining realization % on order item line
 Reviewing and Changing the Project
 Staffing the Project
 Generating the settlement rule
 Planning cost elements or activity inputs
 Entering a Forecast
 Time recording
 Creating the fixed price billing document
 Creating a resource-related billing request
 Creating the invoice for the billing memo request
 Period-end closing projects
Services
Project with Fixed Price and T&M Billing
Business benefits
Time Sheet.
 Provide fixed price billing and resource-related
billing.
Purpose
Addresses engineering or industrial design company project management business processes. Project
agreement requires a down payment and billing based on performance of defined milestones.
Create a quotation

 Creating a quotation
 Creating a customer sales order
 Maintaining realization % on contract line
 Staffing the Order
 Entering a Forecast
 Time recording
 Creating the fixed price billing document
 Creating a resource-related billing request
 Creating the invoice for the billing memo request
Services
Sales Order with Fixed Price and T&M Billing
Business benefits
 Provide contract management and cross-
Application Time Sheet.
 Provide fixed price billing and resource-related
billing .
Purpose
Addresses a project cycle from quotation to completion, where one part of the billing is agreed on a fixed
price basis. The other part is billed based on the actual work performed.
Create minimum sales order condition

 Create a technical object, type "machines"
 Create internal repair order
 Create purchase order
 Confirm goods receipt
 Enter invoice for external procurement
 Record actual time worked (CATS)
 Display planned/actual costs
 Settle order to cost center
 Close internal order
Services
Internal Maintenance
Business benefits
 Manage the technical object .
 Execute procurement of external services and
materials.
 Provides cross-Application Time Sheet.
Purpose
In the maintenance cycle, a warranty check is performed; spare parts & services are ordered & the repair is
completed. Costs & materials are confirmed to the order & are settled to cost centers.
Create equipment

 Record purchase-order related accounts payable
transactions
 Review and release blocked invoices
 Ensure that inventory movements are complete
 Open new MM period
 Settlement of service orders
 Closing the completed service orders
Services
Period End Closing Service Orders
Business benefits
 Period end closing for service orders ensures that
service order costs and revenues are properly
assigned for structured financial reporting.
Purpose
Period end closing for service orders ensures that service order costs and revenues are properly assigned
for structured financial reporting.
Close completed service orders

 Creation of sales order
 Use Cross-Application Time Sheet
 Billing the sales order
 On a periodic basis, a results analysis is carried out
 The accrued data is settled to CO-PA and FI
Services
Spot Consulting with Fixed Price Billing
Business benefits
 Manage sales order.
 Provide fixed price billing
Purpose
Provides ad-hoc service related work in a simple project cycle including providing a quotation for services,
sales order creation, project completion and resource billing of the actual work performed.
Create a sales order

Scope items
Financial AccountingFinancial Accounting

 Post GL account documents
 Reverse GL account documents
 Display Document Journal
 Display GL account balances (list)
 Post recurring entries
 Post accruals
 Run foreign exchange/currency revaluation
 Account Maintenance: manual clearing
 Account Maintenance: automatic clearing
 Execute Tax Accounting
 Create account statements
 Use legal reporting
Financial Accounting
General Ledger (GL)
Business benefits
 Recording of all business transactions ensures complete and accurate accounting data
 Simplifies and accelerates faster financial closes
 Ensures balanced books by any dimension and reconciliation through roll-up of special-ledger postings to GL
 Supports legal and parallel reporting requirements
 Provides real-time insight into financial figures and key performance indicators
Purpose
Supports the accounting requirements of an organization by providing a complete record of all business
transactions and financial reporting for multiple accounting standards.

Accounts Receivable (AR)
Business benefits
 Easily handles large numbers of customer invoices
and credit notes
 The payment program can automatically carry out
direct debiting and down payments
 Improves cash flow and liquidity with an optimized
receivables management
 Provides real-time insight in outstanding
receivables
Purpose
Is an integral part of bookkeeping which helps manage transactions with customers and company business
partners, and is an integral part of sales processes.
 Post AR account documents
 Post customer invoices
 Post credit notes with invoice reference
 Execute down payments clearing manually
 Post incoming payments manually and using the
payment program
 Clear open items in customer accounts manually
and automatically
 Process account statements manually and
reprocess account statement
 Execute dunning
 Create One-Time-Accounts postings
 Set credit limits
 Display open item and credit control reporting

Accounts Payable (AP)
Business benefits
 Easily handles large numbers of invoices and credit
notes
 The payment program can automatically carry out
bank transfers and down payments
 Improves cash flow and liquidity with automatic
payments at optimal payment time
 Provides real-time insight in outstanding liabilities
Purpose
Accounts Payable sub-ledger is an integral part of bookkeeping which helps manage transactions with
vendors and company business partners, and is an integral part of purchasing processes.
 Post AP account documents
 Post down payment request
 Post vendor invoices
 Clear open items manually and automatically
 Post down payments using the payment program
 Post outgoing payments manually and using the
payment program
 Post payments and create payment medium using
the payment program

Period-End Closing in Financial Accounting
Purpose
Includes those processes required to close the books and prepare financial reports; accruals and reversals,
foreign currency revaluations; balance confirmations with customers and vendors.
 Execute day-end closing
 Execute month-end closing
 Execute year-end closing
Business benefits
 System supports in creating the balance
sheets and profit and loss statements
 System supports in documentation of posting
data
 Simplifies and accelerates financial closings
through automation

Cash Management (CM)
Purpose
Cash Management covers a number of functions, including determination of liquidity based on bank
account balances (cash position) and open receivables and payables (liquidity forecast) and more.
 Analyze CM status
 Execute cash concentration
Business benefits
 Transfers all cash-relevant information from
internal and external sources into CM quickly
and reliably (inbound data)
 Performs analysis and reporting of current
and future cash flows to support CM
decisions
(analysis and decision)
 Communicates with banks and other business
partners based on the results of the decision
process (outbound data)

Asset Accounting (AA)
Purpose
Asset Accounting manages and supervises fixed assets. It serves as a subsidiary ledger to the General
Ledger, providing detailed information on transactions involving fixed assets.
 Post asset acquisitions from purchase with
vendor
 Post asset acquisitions with automatic offsetting
entry
 Retire assets due to scrapping or with revenue
 Post asset sales without customer
 Post post-capitalizations
 Post write-ups
 Settle assets under construction
 Post down payment requests for assets under
construction
 Execute depreciation posting run
 Post acquisition and production costs values
 Simulate depreciations and plan primary costs
Business benefits
 Simplifies and accelerates financial closings
 Automatically calculates depreciation and interests
 Simulates depreciation forecast
 Covers entire asset lifecycle and provides full integration with other ledgers and components in SAP ERP

Asset Acquisition for Constructed Assets (Investment Orders)
Purpose
Assets under construction involve the accumulation of costs during the building or construction of fixed
assets and the capitalization of costs at the completion of construction.
 Create investment orders (with asset under
construction master records)
 Create budgets for investment orders
 Release investment orders
 Post AP invoices to investment orders
 Monitor investment order progress
 Settle assets under construction
 Complete investment orders
Business benefits
 Transparent view of an asset for acquisition

Asset Acquisition through Direct Capitalization
Purpose
This form of asset acquisition involves the purchase of a fixed asset from a vendor and the capitalization of
costs when the vendor invoice is processed. In order to track the budget an investment order is posted
statistically in addition.
 Capitalize assets directly in Asset Accounting
Business benefits
 System integration of Asset Acquisition with
Materials Management and Investment
Controlling

Cost of Sales Accounting
Purpose
Cost of sales accounting compares the sales revenues for an accounting period with the costs involvedin
the production of the sold products.
 Add functional area in Chart of Accounts
 Add functional area in posting keys
 Add cost center categories
 Post GL account documents with functional area
 Post customer invoices
 Post vendor invoices
 Execute line item reporting (cost object re-assignment)
 Generate balance sheets and profit and loss statements
 Generate Cost of Sales Accounting – profit and loss
statements
Business benefits
 Operating expenses are often allocated in different ways in Financial Accounting and Cost of Sales
Accounting
 Flexible way to control the functional area by a hierarchic model
 With this type of grouping, Cost of Sales Accounting clearly identifies where costs originate in a
company

Activate Document Splitting
Purpose
This function enables you to assign one or more segments (e.g. cost/profit centers) to financial postings for
current or future managerial reporting needs, and is a prerequisite for Segment Reporting.
 Activate Document Splitting based on segments
Business benefits
 Real-time postings (online)
 Account statements for the selected dimensions
can be generated at any time with segment
reporting
 Provides extensibility and flexibility for company-
specific and industry-specific enhancements
 Increases data quality as results of the document
split are visible in the document itself
 Significantly accelerates the closing process
when used along with parallel accounting and
many automated functions as subsequent
processes like foreign-currency valuation may be
executed immediately

Segment Reporting
Purpose
The purpose of segment reporting is to provide a breakdown of data in financial statements by individual
enterprise areas such as divisions, or geographical areas.
 Post GL account documents with different
segments
 Allocate segments that could not be allocated
formerly at period end
 Generate balance sheets and profit and loss
statements
 Generate Cost of Sales Accounting profit and
loss statements
 Generate AR and AP by segments
Business benefits
 Account statements for the selected
dimensions can be generated at any time
with segment reporting

Petty Cash Management (Thailand)
Purpose
Petty Cash is used for posting, overview and changing of following cash operations for petty cashier
vendor.
 Create Petty Cashier as a vendor
 Set up the petty cash fund
 Outgoing Payment
 Expense paid by petty cashier
 Reimbursement
Business benefits
 Petty Cash transactions input, saving and
posting
 To handle withholding deduction
 Printing of cash documents from standard
report

Cash Journal (Russia, Ukraine)
Purpose
Cash journal is used for management of cash income and outcome. Initial balance and turnover amounts
are calculated automatically..
 Transfer cash to bank
 Cash to be accounted for employee
 Payment to vendors
 Receiving cash from bank
 Receiving cash from customers
 …
Business benefits
 Quickly and reliably input, saving and
posting of cash transactions
 Calculation of cash balance

General Ledger Accounting (China)
Purpose
General Ledger Accounting supports the accounting requirements of an organization by providing a
complete record of all business transactions and financial reporting for multiple accounting standards.
 Posting general ledger account documents
 General ledger account documents
verification
 Displaying Chart of Accounts with Hierarchy
 Displaying the document journal
 Displaying G/L balances (list)
 Displaying General Ledger Report
 Displaying Journal Ledger Report
 Carrying out recurring entries
 Account maintenance: automatic and manual
clearing
Business benefits
 Recording all business transaction ensures
complete and accurate accounting data.
 Simplifies and accelerates faster financial
closes
 Provides real-time insight into financial
figures and key performance indicators

Accounts Receivable – (China)
Purpose
The Accounts Receivable sub-ledger is an integral part of bookkeeping which helps manage transactions
with customers and company business partners, and is an integral part of sales processes.
 Post down payment request
 Post down payment manually
 Post customer invoice
 Customer Invoice verification
 Post a credit note with invoice reference
 Credit note with invoice reference verification
 Posting payments using the payment
program or Electronic Payment Integration
(EPIC)
 Posting manual payment
 Automatic clearing of open items in customer
accounts
 Manual clearing of open items in customer
accounts
 Manual bank statement processing
 Reprocessing an account statement
 Dunning
 Account balance interest calculation
 One-time-accounts postings
Business benefits
 Accounts receivable is also an integral part
of sales management.
 All postings in accounts receivable are also
recorded directly in the general ledger.
 The payment program or Electronic
Payment Integration (EPIC)can carry out
automatically.
 Setting a credit limit
 Credit control reporting
 Displaying an accounting document
 Displaying and Changing Line Items
 Displaying Balances
 Display Customer Reporting
 Display A/R Aging Report(China)
 Display AR Drilldown Report

Accounts Payable – (China)
Purpose
Accounts Payable sub-ledger is an integral part of bookkeeping which helps manage transactions with
vendors and company business partners, and is an integral part of purchasing processes.
 Down payment request
 Post down payments using the payment
program or Electronic Payment Integration
(EPIC)
 Post vendor invoice
 Vendor Invoice Verification
 Down payment clearing
 Enter vendor credit memo
 Vendor Credit Memo Verification
 Review and release blocked invoices
 Select invoices to be paid
 Review and block invoices for payment as
needed
 Post payment using the payment program or
Electronic Payment Integration (EPIC)
 Manual payment
 Manual bank statement processing
 Display of posted documents
Business benefits
 Accounts payable are an integral part of the
purchasing system.
 All postings in accounts payable are also
recorded directly in the general ledger.
 The payment program or Electronic
Payment Integration (EPIC) can carry out
bank transfers and down payments
automatically.
 Display and Change Vendor Line Items
 Display Vendor Balances in Local Currency
 Display Vendor Report
 A/P Aging Report(China)
 Display AP Drilldown Report

Period-End Closing in Financial Accounting – (China)
Purpose
Includes those processes required to close the books and prepare financial reports; accruals and reversals,
foreign currency revaluations; balance confirmations with customers and vendors..
 Day-end closing
 Month-end closing
 Year-end closing
Business benefits
 Generate balance sheets and P&L
statements - Two columns
 Document the posting data

Scope items
ControllingControlling

Financial Controlling
General Cost Center Planning
Purpose
The managers of non-operational cost centers, such as sales, marketing, administrative, research and
development, plan the costs for various cost types or elements for their respective cost centers.
 Check cost center master data
 Check version validity for current budget period
 Copy previous year actuals or budgets
 Execute transfer of planned depreciations from
assets
 Set planner profile
 Download cost elements to MS Excel for income
and expenses budgets
 Update budget values for income and expenses
excluding operations
 Upload cost elements for income and expenses
excluding operations
 Plan accrual costs and statistical key figures, and
execute plan assessments
 Confirm non-operating cost center budgets
 Copy AOP version to actual version 0 and lock
both versions for planning
Business benefits
 Allows comparison of planned and actual
costs and monitoring of costs on cost centers

Internal Order for Research and Development Planning
Purpose
Involves entering costs, activities and business processes that is incurred during the life cycle of an order.
Can compare plan and actual costs and perform a differentiated variance analysis.
 Create Research and Development internal
orders
 Set planner profile
 Plan costs for Research and Development
internal orders
 Settle planned costs for Research and
Development internal orders
 Confirm correct settlement
 Execute internal order reporting
Business benefits
 Allows comparison of planned and actual
costs on internal orders and monitoring of
costs and order status

Internal Order for Marketing and Other Overhead Planning
Purpose
Internal orders are used to plan, collect, and settle costs for projects like marketing campaigns or other
internal projects.
 Create internal orders
 Plan cost elements for internal orders
 Settle internal orders with planned costs
Business benefits
 Enables tracking of planned and actual costs
of these projects for various purposes such
as cost control, return on investment
calculations, tax reporting and so on

Overhead Cost Accounting Actual
Purpose
internal projects.
 Process GL account documents for various
purposes
 Plan costs for various cost elements for cost
centers
 Assess shared expenses
 Record statistical key figures
 Analyze planned and actual figures
 Settle internal orders
 Execute necessary steps for preparation of
periodic and year-end activities
Business benefits
 Provides a transparent view for an account of a
cost center
 Helps to plan, control, and monitor cost
behavior
 Increases cost-consciousness
 Provides various analyses of variances, such as
volume, price, input, and quantity variance
 Supports decision-making to improve
profitability

Internal Order for Research and Development Actual
Purpose
Internal orders are used to monitor costs and provide cost control for an organization, and are the most
detailed operational level of cost controlling.
 Create Research and Development
internal orders
 Execute consumable purchasing
 Post goods issues to Research and
Development internal orders
 Settle Research and Development internal
orders
Business benefits
 Provides a transparent view of outstanding
orders, shipments, and inventory
 Enables automated and efficient processing

Internal Order for Marketing and Other Overhead Actual
Purpose
internal projects.
 Create internal orders
 Settle internal orders based on actual costs
Business benefits
 Enables tracking of planned and actual
costs of these projects for various purposes
such as cost control, return on investment
calculations, tax reporting, and so on

Revenue Planning
Purpose
Revenue and costs are planned on product and customer levels. This scenario is integrated in the complete
planning cycle.
 Execute revenue planning on basis of
historical data
 Execute cost calculation
 Execute transfer to sales and operations
planning
Business benefits
 Offers integration to Sales, Financials,
Controlling, and Production
 Provides usage of automated functionality for
planning
 Offers data planning in spreadsheet

SOP through Long-Term Planning Transfer to LIS / PIS / Capacity
Purpose
SOP is used to verify the sales (demand) plan , create a rough–cut production plan aimed to satisfy
demand, and to meet inventory targets.
 Create sales plans and transfer to Sales
and Operations Planning
 Execute rough matching of budgeted sales
quantities and production resources in
sales and operations planning
 Create planning scenarios in “Long-Term
Planning” to simulate production planning
for the budgeted sales quantities
 Calculate work center capacities and
material requirements based on simulated
production and operative production data
(bills of material, routings, etc.)
 Use material requirements for AOP –
Purchase Material Price Planning
 Use work centers capacity in AOP –
General Cost Center Planning
Business benefits
 Avoids bottlenecks, over- and under-absorption
in production
 Takes Material Requirements Planning (MRP) as
a basis for purchasing contracts

Purchased Material Price Planning
Purpose
Standard costs for purchased materials need to be periodically reviewed and updated, if necessary, to
match the current market conditions and negotiated prices.
 Execute transfer of long-term planning
scenario to purchase information system
 Download purchased materials for budget
purchase prices update
 Review data and negotiate with vendors
 Change materials planned prices (material
master)
Business benefits
 Updates standard costs for purchased
materials which can be used to update the
standard prices for semi-finished and finished
products Screenshot shows optional SAP NetWeaver Business Client 3.0

Manufacturing Cost Center Planning
Purpose
The managers of manufacturing cost centers plan the costs for their respective cost centers. The actual
data of the current and previous year is used as the basis for developing these plans.
 Download cost center budgets into
spreadsheets, revision by cost center managers,
and upload of revised data
 Transfer of planned activity requirements from
production (Sales and Operations Planning).
 Complete planned data manually
 Calculate planned activity prices (input for AOP
standard cost calculation
Business benefits
 Offers comparison of planned and actual costs
and monitoring of costs on cost centers
 Provides allocation of production and overhead
costs to products (via activity types)

Standard Cost Calculation
Purpose
A cost estimate used to calculate the standard price for semi- and finished goods for valuation purposes.
 Create costing runs
 Execute costing runs
 Review errors
 Analyze proposed standard prices
 Repeat annual operating plan scenarios
 Edit and execute costing runs
 AOP – transfer revenue cost of sales
 Create frozen costing runs
 Execute costing runs
 Mark as future planned prices
 Release standard cost estimates and revalue
stocks at start of new fiscal year
Business benefits
 Offers easy revaluation of existing inventory
based on the new standard prices
 Updates prices as future planned costs in the
respective material master record

Scope items
Cross FunctionsCross Functions

Cross Functions
Travel Management
Purpose
Supports employee expense reimbursement lifecycle, cost assignment, built-in integration into Financial
Accounting, Project Management and Management Cost Accounting.
 Create trip and enter receipts
 Approve and settle trip
 Transfer costs to accounting
Business benefits
 Record travel expenses
Create trip and enter receipts

Cross Functions
Time Recording
Purpose
Records working times and tasks. Enables controlling business processes concerning employees’ tasks,
such as paying the employees, monitoring the progress of a project, and creating invoices.
 Record actual working times
 Approve working times
 Transfer time sheets to target components
Business benefits
 Provides cross-application timesheet for Time
Recording

Cross Functions
Period-End Closing “General” Plant
Purpose
Period end closing in a plant ensures that all costs incurred during the manufacturing process are assigned
to the production activities.
 Run assessment cycles for quality costs
 Ensure goods movements and production
transactions are complete
 Open new Materials Management periods
 Execute period-end closing for production
orders (overheads, work-in-process
calculations, variances calculations,
settlements of production orders)
 Close completed production orders
 Data collection for summarization hierarchy
(reporting)
 Run actual assessments of all cost center costs
to profitability analysis (CO-PA)
 Run profitability reports
Business benefits
 Provides a transparent view of production costs for materials manufactured in-house

Cross Functions
Inventory Valuation for Year-End Closing
Purpose
Balance sheet valuation in Inventory Accounting enables you to valuate your inventories at the end of
reporting periods in accordance with international accounting principles (IAS, U.S. GAAP).
 Valuate stocks for raw materials, packaging
materials and trading goods on base of
lowest possible value
 Valuate inventories for semi-finished and
finished materials on base of local
requirements for valuation approaches
 Adjust stock values
Business benefits
 Offers consideration of the valuation request
on the basis of local requirements for
valuation approaches

Cross Functions
Period-End Closing Projects
Purpose
Period end closing for projects ensures that project costs and revenues are properly assigned for structured
financial reporting.
 Open new Materials Management periods
 Calculation of work-in-process
 Execute actual settlement of projects to
Profitability Analysis (CO-PA)
 Close completed projects (business view)
Business benefits
 Provides fast period-end closing processes

Cross Functions
Period-End Closing Activities
Purpose
Provides processes for period–end closing on a daily, monthly and yearly basis.
 Execute period-end closing on a daily basis
 Execute period-end closing on a monthly basis
 Execute period-end closing on a yearly basis
Business benefits
 Provides fast period-end closing process

Cross Functions
Inflation Management (Venezuela, Mexico)
Purpose
Inflationary Accounting for Fixed Assets. This building block provides all the settings required to adjust for
inflation of fixed assets in the Finance module, and for detailed reporting for each fixed asset.
 Basic and general settings to use Inflation
Management
 Inflation adjustment of Fixed Assets
 Fixed Assets Inflation adjustments reports
Business benefits
 You can make inflation adjustments in the
general ledger accounts as part of the
financial closing activities. To do so, it is
necessary to identify and define in
customizing those general ledger accounts
that must be updated with this process
 The inflation adjustments and recognition is
affecting asset accounting, general ledger
and the financial statements. This
adjustment can be done as a monthly
closing activity
 Ability to get reports with details of inflation
adjustment to analyze how it affects the
general ledger

Scope items
AnalyticsAnalytics

Cross Functions
SAP ERP Reports for Logistics
Purpose
These top SAP ERP reports successfully monitor and control the company’s logistics and production
processes.
 Execute general reporting
 Execute Sales and Distribution reporting
 Execute Materials Management and
Procurement reporting
 Execute Service reporting
 Execute Production reporting
Business benefits
 Provides direct access to information
helping to get broader visibility across all
areas of the business
 Lets you uncover business opportunities
and anticipate risks
 Provides you with an understanding of how
different business drivers impact sales,
materials management, procurement,
service, production, and operational
performance

SAP ERP Reports for Accounting
Purpose
These top SAP ERP reports meet the legal and management reporting needs.
 Execute GL Accounting reporting
 Execute fixed Asset Accounting reporting
 Execute Cost Element Accounting reporting
 Execute Cost Center Accounting reporting
 Execute internal order reporting
 Execute product costing reporting
 Execute Profitability Analysis reporting
 Execute Information System: (actual) costs,
revenues, expenditures, receipts
Business benefits
 Provides direct access to information
helping to get broader visibility across all
areas of the business
 Lets you uncover business opportunities and
anticipate risks
 Provides you with an understanding of how
different business drivers impact financial
and operational performance

 Implementation
 Testing
 Key User training
 Master data load
 User acceptance testing
 Switch to QA and production
 Successful rollout and adoption
 Configuration documentation
Implement in as little as 8-12 weeks
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Expectations
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 Project management
 Kick-off workshop participation
 Scoping workshop
 Preparing technical
infrastructure
 Mutually-approved options
selected
 Working SAP system
 End-user training
 Hand over of solution
 Onsite and remote support
 Superior support to ensure
smooth functioning
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Results

Services for Rapid Deployment Solutions
Your path to Go-Live: fast, efficiently and at predictable cost
 Fixed-price Implementation Services
 Pre-defined Project Methodology
 Ready-to-use Accelerators
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 Project management
 Kick-off workshop participation
 Select options workshop
 Preparing technical infrastructure
Accelerators / Deliverables
 Work breakdown structure
 Solution details
 Solution summary
 Scoping questionnaire and options
 Software requirements
 Solution activation and confirmation
 Implementation of options
 Knowledge transfer to key users
 Master data load
 Testing of solution
 Switch to QA and production
 Quick guide
 Business process documentation
 Best-Practices content
(pre-configuration)
 Scoping questionnaire and options
 Configuration guides
 Performance testing
 End user training
 Hand over of solution
 Go-Live
 Post go-live support and activities
 Training Materials –
Business process documentation,
etc.

Configuration Guide
Scoping Questionnaire
Project Schedule
Check Lists
Implementation methodology
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Project plan and timelines
 Prepare Project
 Kick off workshop
 Select Options
 Confirm Installation
 End-user Training
and Organization
Change Management
 Hand over of
solution
 Go-live and Support
 Activate Solution
 Confirm Activation
 Implement Options
 Train Key Users
 Set up Customer
Data
 Switch to QA
 User Acceptance
Testing
 Switch to Production
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SAP Partner
involvement
Customer involvement

What’s included – Service scope
The service provides a fast implementation of SAP Business All-in-One
rapid-deployment solution for manufacturing, trading and service core
processes which is provided by SAP partners. The service offering is not
available for implementation by SAP Consulting.
The approach is comprised of a customer qualification, a scoping phase
and the implementation.
•The customer qualification provides decision support whether the fast
implementation approach is applicable for the customer or not.
•During the scoping phase the customer relevant scenario is being
selected out of the defined implementation scope.
•After that the implementation with a defined and agreed scope will be run
on a fixed price approach.
One application language will be tested within the solution, one currency
will be tested within the solution, the solution includes one company code
and one chart of accounts, 2 plants, centralized purchasing.
The implementation service includes the installation of only one SAP
system in the recommended system landscape; only the SAP ECC 6.0
development system will be installed, choice of SAP GUI or NWBC
frontend, naming of the SAP Best Practices organizational structure
objects, inclusion of customer logo in the SAP Best Practices standard
SAP Forms
A special step-by-step guide describes each activity
during the deployment

The following items are NOT delivered with the SAP Business All-in-One rapid-deployment solution
are considered OUT OF SCOPE for this project, and will need to be managed as a change
request:
• Any other SAP solution
• Any additional application language
• Any other currency and tests of any other currency
• Any other company code and any other chart of accounts
• Any other SAP system installation
• Any organizational structure element, business process, configuration, document, form, report, master data object not
part of the standard SAP Business All-in-One rapid-deployment solution
• Customer specific authorizations
• Migration of historical data – historical data
• Custom developments or enhancements are out of scope unless they are contracted separately under additional scope
items in the statement of work
• Interfaces to other systems are out of scope unless they are contracted separately under additional scope items in the
statement of work
• Non standard SAP ERP reports
• This solution is designed to work with a standard SAP ERP application; any changes that are required because of
industry specific functionality
• End-user training
• Formal SAP Education curriculum
• Design or execution of organizational change management
• The detailed specification of Forms, Reports, Conversions, Interfaces and Enhancements (FRICE)
• Open items in Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable must be cleared manually

What does the SAP Partner deliver? What do you have to do?
 Provide the IT infrastructure (server)
 Install the SAP ECC application, version 6.0, on
the quality insurance and production
environments
 Provide fixed contact people in the business and
IT departments
 Conduct end-user training & change management
 Performance and integration testing
 Data migration and cleansing
 Transport to production
Key deliverables
 Initial Installation of the SAP Business All-in-One
rapid-deployment solution system
 Workshop to confirm the pre-defined requirements
 Project documents: Work Breakdown Structure
including a project schedule and Scoping
Questionnaire
 Activation and Unit Test of chosen packages for
the SAP Business All-in-One rapid-deployment
solution in the development system
 Knowledge transfer to key users on configured
SAP Business All-in-One rapid-deployment
solution system
 Support for going live
 SAP Business All-in-One rapid-deployment
solution Documentation
 Master data loading via standard input files
 "Train-the trainer" approach to end user training

Project team: SAP Partner
SAP Partner Project Manager
 Serves as a central contact person for SAP Partner,
from project initiation to going live and support
 Responsible for the coordination of SAP Partner tasks
and project management assistance with the
customer’s project manager.
SAP Partner Consultants
 Responsible for implementation of the agreed upon
scope for the rapid-deployment solution

Project team: customer
Leading Project Manager
 Serves as a central contact person from the customer,
from project initiation to going live and support
 On your side: responsible for functional and commercial
project management, coordination of customer tasks,
overall project controlling and updates to the project
steering committee
Basis staff
 Especially responsible for the installation and
administration
of the SAP system landscapes
Functional department staff / key users
 Responsible for workshops, questions from SAP Partner,
end-user training, and possibly as a power user for
simple configurations
Specialized Staff (Optional)
 Responsible for further specialized areas such as
customization and configuration

Software requirements
 SAP ERP 6.0, enhancement package 4 OR
 SAP ERP 6.0, enhancement package 5 OR
 SAP ERP 6.0, enhancement package 6
 For more details, please refer to the Quick Guide in the country-specific Step-By-Step
Guides

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