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VARIOUS SCENARIOS TO ILLUSTRATE CROSS-ORGANIZATIONAL BUSINESS PROCESSES
INTERCOMPANY –PROCESSING IN SAP
INTERCOMPANY –PROCESSING IN SAP
AGENDAPROCESS OVERVIEW
INTERCOMPANY-PROCESSING
CROSS COMPANY-PROCESSING
OBJECTIVES
INITIAL SITUATION
PROS AND CONS
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INITIAL SITUATION
In order to assert themselves in the
market, companies have to act
globally and position themselves
accordingly.
This creates a complex and confusing
business world that poses problems
for the company, especially when it
comes to cross-border interactions
between the individual organizations.
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REALIZATION
Intercompany and cross company
processing as possible approach
to meet this goal with different
levels of automation
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OBJECTIVES
Transparent and efficient finance
and logistics processes for the
organizational processing
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OBJECTIVES
Direct delivery
to customerDelivery to order plant
Cross CompanyCross-company code sales
(BP 110)
Sales from stock and cross-
company code stock transfer(BP 120)
IntercompanyCustomer order with route
processing
(EDI order transmission)(BP 130)
Customer order with purchase
(EDI order transmission)(BP 140)
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EXAMPLE
Production plant
Germany
Sales company
France
Customer
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CUSTOMER ORDER WITH PURCHASE (BP130)
CustomerSales Company
France
Customer
purchasesCustomer order
Invoice
(internal)Incoming
invoice
Invoice
(external)
Purchase Order Customer order
Delivery +
goods issueGoods receiptDelivery
Customer
receives goods
EDI
Sales Purchasing
EDI
Production Plant
Germany
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CUSTOMER ORDER WITH ROUTE PROCESSING (BP130)
CustomerSales Company
France
Customer
purchasesCustomer Order
Invoice
(internal)Incoming
invoice
Invoice
(external)
Third Party
Purchase OrderCustomer Order
Delivery +
Goods IssueGoods Receipt
Customer
receives goods
EDI
Sales Purchasing
EDI
Production Plant
Germany
9SALES FROM STOCK AND CROSS-COMPANY CODE STOCK TRANSFER
(BP 120)Customer
Sales Company
France
Customer
purchasesCustomer order
Invoice
(internal)Incoming
invoice
Invoice
(external)
Purchase Order
Delivery +
Goods IssueGoods ReceiptDelivery
Customer
receives goods
EDI
Sales Purchasing
Production Plant
Germany
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CROSS-COMPANY CODE SALES (BP110)
CustomerSales Company
France
Customer
purchasesCustomer Order
Invoice
(internal)Incoming
Invoice
Invoice
(external)
Delivery +
Goods Issue
Customer
receives goods
EDI
Sales Purchasing
Production Plant
Germany
CONCLUSION
Intercompany-Processing
Complete illustration of all business process steps with individual documents in both organizational units
(“as with external third parties”)
Cross Company-Processing
Illustration of the business process steps with common use of individual cross-organizational documents
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PROS AND CONS
Pros Cons
Cross Company
▪ Lean sales processing
▪ Comprehensive availability check →
immediate information
▪ Directly dispositive effective
▪ Transparency regarding status
▪ Minimizing of the transport time
▪ No synchronization of purchasing / sales
master data
▪ Uniform material number concept
mandatory
▪ Shared responsibility for the same
customer order
▪ Limited statistics update in sales and
controlling
▪ No differentiated price and tax
considerations possible
Intercompany
▪ No uniform material number concept
needed
▪ Clear separation of organizational
responsibilities
▪ Consideration of the company-individual
process specifics
▪ Complete statistics update
▪ Degree of automation free scalable
▪ Extensive process steps / documents
▪ Synchronization of purchasing / sales
master data
▪ No informative value with regard to
availability at order entry
▪ „delayed“ dispositive effective
▪ No transparency at first sight
▪ Interface monitoring (EDI)
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EXTENSION OPTIONS
Possible scenarios for extension:
+ Automation of data transfer via EDI
+ Extension with delivery notification / delivery
+ Event controlled mail permissions (internal/external)
+ Synchronization of purchasing and sales master data through use of central price information
+ Cross-organizational order monitoring
+ Overlapping interface monitoring (EDI)
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