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W E I T B L I C K . L E I D E N S C H A F T . W E N D I G K E I T .

V O R S P R U N G .

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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