SAP DeepDive - 3rd Party Order using SAP Best Practice

Explore the SAP S/4 HANA and ECC roadmap, including ECC decommissioning, version retirements, and 2025 WM compatibility changes. Compare technical upgrades with all-in-one migrations using templates for rollout.

Learn to maximize this SAP best practice course through the explain, show, and practice method, applying concepts in SAP with business cases and hands-on practice via SAP access or trial.

Plan a learning path, gain SAP access, and learn step by step. Start with the order-to-cash cycle: sales order, delivery, invoice, and then expand with ATP, route determination, and returns.

Start with theory on sales, delivery, picking and packing and transportation, then build hands-on SAP practice creating sales orders, deliveries, PGI, and invoices, including ATP, warehouse, and GPS basics.

Explain the three-party order flow where a customer sales order triggers a vendor purchase, delivery to the customer, and invoicing for the delivered quantity (including partial deliveries).

Explore key points for implementing an SAP 3rd party order flow, from sales order to customer billing, including billing options and Incoterms alignment.

Control output documentation in a SAP third-party process by ensuring invoices and delivery notes reflect the seller's data and vendor-aligned invoice numbers.

Discover the vat triangle determination in third-party shipments and how to charge vat when vendor and ship-to are in the same country, via pricing procedure and info record checks.

Configure SAP for third-party orders by mastering item category tass, SPRO sales and distribution, and how requisitions become third-party purchase orders with ship-to and billing implications.

Configure SAP master data for third party materials by setting the item category to third party and aligning vendor info records with sales and purchasing data, including lead times.

Demonstrates end-to-end third-party order processing in SAP: from sales order and requisition to purchase order, vendor invoice, and customer billing, with delivery dates updating the sales order.

Demonstrates posting a vendor invoice against a purchase order, adjusting quantities, and closing the purchase order using the delivery complete flag or a batch versus manual approach.

Explore how third-party returns and credits work in SAP, including vendor discrepancies, customer returns, internal plant setup, and returns to either the plant or vendor with corresponding credit memos.

Review and implement a comprehensive third-party order checklist in SAP, covering material master setup, info records, source lists, lead times, purchase requisitions, purchase orders, delivery dates, and vendor communications.

As this SAP deep dive ends, the instructor invites feedback and discussion on tailoring SAP best practice to each company, balancing detail with relevance. Questions welcome; new videos may follow.