Product Description

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

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #176416 in Books
• Published on: 2008-03-21
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 513 pages

From the Back Cover
Expert Guidance on How to Successfully Implement This Brand-New SAP Module!

One of the world's leading SAP Sales & Distribution consultants delivers the first comprehensive and practical guide to implementing this new module in the R/3 system. Inside this book you'll get complete information on the ins and outs of the software, including basic functions, sales document flow, invoicing, and how the S&D module interfaces with other modules.

This remarkably clear and concise book will show you how to:

• Get an overview of SAP functions and find out where to access data throughout the system
• Configure and implement the Sales & Distribution model
• Learn the differences between sales document types and how they control deliveries and impact other modules
• Understand the basic functions that make up the sales process, including pricing, output, and credit management
• Create cross-functional reports using the standard SAP structures
• Prepare for going 'live' and learn system testing methods

Sales processes and delivery systems are crucial functions in today's businesses and no other Sales & Distribution guide can bring you the same focused, reliable advice that's found inside this first-rate user's guidebook.

About the Author

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.

Customer Reviews

Excellent content, misleading cover
I can reiterate what the other reviewers have said of this book: It has excellent content, and it tremendously useful to those who want to configure and/or learn more about the SAP R/3 sales and distribution module. I would have liked to see something on serial numbers and also quality management as it relates to SD, but these are nitpicks. From what I could tell, the core R/3 SD functionality is handled well and with great detail.

The cover of the book, on the other hand (over which the author probably has no control) contains a significantly misleading statement. It states that the book "Covers R/3 4.6". This is not true. The book is written primarily with reference to R/3 version 4.0B, with occasional mention of what might be coming in version 4.5. Anyone with some knowledge of R/3 who skims the book will immediately see the misleading nature of the cover. However, someone purchasing on the web, and seeing only the cover statement, will be in for a surprise when the book arrives.

In view of the excellent core content of the book, I would urge the author to update the book for version 4.6 (there are significant changes relative to version 4.0), and also include information on linking the core R/3 SD module with web functionality. Now that would be a 5 star book!

DETAILS! Screen Shots, Menu Paths, Configuration Tips
I own a lot of SAP books, 8 or more, and I've thumbed through a couple dozen more on store shelves. Most of them are lacking in detail, and are just re-arrangements of SAP help. I couldn't believe the detail this book has: screen shots (very rare in most books), menu paths (even rarer), and configuration tips the author says he learned "the hard way" over several implementations. Having been involved with two SAP instances myself, I believe he knows what he is talking about. This guy KNOWS his stuff. He specifically details where and how to customize SAP SD through the IMG and master data. I've NEVER seen an SAP book with this much relevant and useful information. If I could have given it 6 or 7 stars I would have. Worth twice the price.

Clear and concise approach to SD customizing.
This book gives a clear, concise and no-nonsense approach to customising the SD module in SAP R/3.

All the areas of SD are covered. What is most useful is that the customising is explained - rather than focusing exclusively on what SAP SD is and can do which other SD books have done, this book also shows you what must be done and customised and how to do it to use the functionality that is available. I think this is most useful.

Especially helpful are the tips and notes which give useful advice, warnings and time-saving OSS notes.

As an experienced SD consultant, I found this book a useful, comprehensive and concise record of SD customising. New users will find it an invaluable source of knowledge, understanding and experience.