Meter to cash business process

hi sap experts,
please can any one send the business process for METER to CASH?
my id: [email protected]
Thanks in advance...
Nagesh

I don't have the Business Process document with me but i can tell you things about that...for meter to cash...you must have some third party tool...say a billing engine which should note down your unit of measurement of material or service consumed...say Kg...or Mbps...based on the feed provided by that system you will do the billing in SAP.
Reward Points if it helps,
Regards,
N

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http://www.intel.com/technology/itj/2004/volume08issue04/art11_collaboration/p01_abstract.htm
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What you are suggesting in terms of Media expert, etc.. is more associated with Roles which are aligned with Solution Scenarios within SAP. Business Processes may span many roles, and are critical to the application being developed.
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/people/lakshmikanth.adiraju/blog/2006/09/19/soa-bpm-business-applications-netweaver-happy-customer
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quotation
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Billing - release to accounting
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Material determination,
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From: - The free goods quantity specifies the amount for which free goods are granted in the sales documents. [10]
Unit of measure: - pc, kg, and cm.
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Calculation rule: - specify pro rata basis
Free Goods: - specify [1] inclusive rebate with item generation
Exclusive: - Giving a free item of different material is called exclusive.
Maintaining condition records for exclusive: -
Logistics
Sales and Distribution
Master data
Conditions
Free Goods
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Calculation Rule: - pro rata 1
Additional material free good: - Specifies the other material, which we are giving as free.
M-11, 10, 10, 1, pro rata, 2, m-10 save.
Note: - In exclusive we can also enter the same material as free item.
Note: - inclusive takes 10 as 9+1 & Exclusive takes 10 as 10 + 1.
The free goods concept is based on condition technique.
SPRO
Sales and Distribution
Basic Functions
Free Goods
Condition technique for free goods
Maintain condition tables [V/N2]
Maintain Access Sequences
Maintain Condition Types
Maintain Pricing Procedures
Activate Free Goods determination [V/N6]
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BOM (Bills of Material)
The item category group of a BOM item must be either ERLA /LUMF.
Defining BOM: -
Logistics
Sales and Distribution
Master Data
Products
Bills of Material
Bill of Material
Material BOM
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Enter the Material
Enter the Plant
BOM usage [5] Sales and Distribution
Enter the component & 0.
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1) When the item Category group is ERLA, the item category of the BOM item is TAQ. In the definition of TAQ we need to take the value A Explodes single level BOM in the field structure scope.
2) If the item Category group is LUMF, the item category of the BOM item is TAP. In the definition of which the same above setting has to be done.
I) If the item category group is ERLA, it will bill the main item but not the components. For this the following setting has to be done.
The item category of the BOM item is TAQ, which is made relevant for pricing and item category of the components is TAE, which is relevant for pricing.
II) Item category group is LUMF bills components but not the main item. For this the following setting has to be done.
The item category of the main item is TAP, which is not relevant for pricing and item category of the components is TAN, which is relevant for pricing.
S & D, Sales, Assign item category group
Sales Doc Type Item Group USA Higher Level Item Item Category
OR ERLA -
TAQ
OR ERLA -
TAQ TAE
OR LUMF -
TAP
OR LUMF -
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Material Listing and Exclusion
Material listing: - whatever the materials that are placed in listing for a customer he can access those materials only.
Maintaining Records for listing: -
Logistics
Sales and Distribution
Products
Listing / Exclusion
VB01 Create
Enter the Listing type A001and select the key combination.
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Material Exclusion: -
Maintaining Records for Exclusion: -
Logistics
Sales and Distribution
Products
Listing / Exclusion
VB01 Create
Enter the exclusion type B001
Place the required materials in exclusion.
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SPRO
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Listing / Exclusion
Sl. No. Listing Exclusion
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Step 2: - Maintain Access sequences for listing / exclusion
Step 3: - Maintain listing / exclusion types.
Step 4: - Procedures for maintaining listing / exclusion
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SPRO
Logistics
Sales and Distribution
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Products
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Basic Functions
Material Determination
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Defining the reason for substitution: -
SPRO
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Basic Functions
Material Determination
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Go to new entries and define
Substitution reason: - Specify the substitution reason [0001]
Description: - Advertising campaign
Entry: - If we check this field the system prints the name or number of the original material on the corresponding output.
Warning: - If we check this field the system displays a warning message before substituting the material.
Strategy: - Controls whether the product selection should occur automatically in the background or whether the alternative materials should be offered for a selection in dialog box.
Out come: - Controls whether the out come of product selection should replace the original entry or whether it should be recorded as a sub item of the original entry.
OUTLINE AGREEMENTS
1) Scheduling Agreements: - Its an outline agreement with the customer containing the delivery dates and the quantities. These are entered as schedule lines in the scheduling agreement.
We can create the schedule lines when we create the scheduling agreement or we can create them later.
We fulfill a scheduling agreement by creating the deliveries in the schedule as they become due.
Creating a Scheduling Agreement: -
Logistics
Sales and Distribution
Sales
Scheduling Agreement
VA31 Create
Scheduling Agreement type DS
2) Contracts: - These are the outline customer agreements that display when the materials or services are sold within a certain time period.
a) Quantity Contracts: - Its an agreement that your customer will order a certain quantity of a product from the company during a specified period.
The contract contains basic quantity and price information but does not specify delivery dates or quantities.
b) Value Contracts: - Its a contractual agreement with a customer that contains the materials or services that they may receive within a time period and Up to a target value.
A value contract can contain certain materials or a group of materials. [Assortment Module]
c) Service Contracts: - Its an agreement that contains the conditions for offering a certain service to the customer. We can manage rental and maintenance contracts in the standard R/3 system.
A service contract contains validity dates cancellation conditions price agreements and the information on the possible follow up action.
d) Master contracts: - Its a document in which we can group contracts together as lower level contracts. The master contract contains the general terms, which apply for all lower level contracts.
Creating Contracts: -
SPRO
Sales and Distribution
Sales
Contract
VA41 Create
Contract Types: -
Master ContractGK
QuantityNMS Contract
Value ContractZWK1
Value Contract GeneralWK1
WK2 Material relevant value contract
Service and MaintainSC contract
SPECIAL SALES ORDERS
Cash Sale: - Its an order type which we use, when the customer orders picks up the goods and pays for the goods immediately the delivery is processed as soon as the order has been entered and the billing is related to the order.
Creating Cash sale: -
VA01
Order type CS or BV and everything is same as sales order
Item Category BVN
Note: - In BVN the field Credit Active is not checked.
Note: - when we save the cash sale document the system will automatically create the delivery document. For this the following customizing setting has to be done.
In the definition of the document type CS we need to take the value X [Create delivery immediately if the quantity conformed for today] in the field Immediate Delivery.
Rush Order: - In the rush order transaction the goods are delivered on the same day as the order is placed.
When we save the rush order document the delivery is automatically created and billing is related to delivery.
Creating Rush Order: -
VA01
Document type RO
Item Category TAN
Note: - For the delivery to be automatically created the following setting has
to be done.
In the definition of document type RO take the value X in the field Immediate Delivery
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Thanx & Regards.
Naren..

Time effort to implement Business Process Monitoring

hi,
if one company want to utilize Business Process Monitoring and implement it:
1). what are the Prerequisite
2). if the Prerequisite are met and we come to BPMon part how long it would take to implement one Scenario.
3). any document or links or hints for BPMon Best Practice?
Regards

Hi Volker,
This comment was part of document - Business Process Monitoring Set-up and User Guideline for Release ST 4.0 and ST-SER 700_2007_1.
3 Prerequisites for Business Process Monitoring
Business Process Monitoring is not just activated by pressing a button in the SAP Solution Manager and
therefore the configuration of Business Process Monitoring is currently not intended as a customer selfservice.
Instead, the procedure to set up Business Process Monitoring in the SAP Solution Manager is rather
realized by the delivery of the SAP Solution Management Optimization (SMO) Service for Business
Process Management due to the complex nature of the overall configuration of Business Process Monitoring.
However, it is possible (but not recommended) for customers to configure Business Process Monitoring by
themselves without any guidance of SAP.
Thanks.
Mani

Use of BPMN diagrams on different levels (Business Process Architect 11gR1)

I have an issue regarding the representation of different levels of diagrams in BPA... I have been using following types of diagrams from the highest level to the lowest:
- Structuring model,
- Value-added chain diagram,
- Business process diagram (BPMN),
- Business process diagram (BPMN),
- Function allocation diagram (this is generated automatically).
Those levels are linked with use of "Assignment" function on individual elements and that enables the user to drill-down to the last level (except between Structuring model and Value-added chain diagram - I can't find a way to link those two).
As you might have noticed from the list of diagrams above, I have used two BPMN diagrams to represent two successive levels. Is this OK? On the first of those two diagram types, I represented activities with "Function" elements (I also used Start, Intermediate, End events and Rule elements).
I linked every "Function" element to a more detailed BPMN diagram on the next level. That one includes "Human task", "Automated activity" elements (and also Start, Intermediate, End events, Rule elements and also others) and is eventually meant to be transformed into BPEL.
That is how I understood the "Oracle_BPA_Suite_QuickStart_Sample_Guide.pdf" and samples included in Architect 11gR1. Is that the right way to do it? Does anybody have a better suggestion on how to represent the whole chain of diagrams?
How can "Assignees" be represented in the BPMN diagram, where I used "Function" elements? Is it possible to link "Structuring model" elements to Value-added chain diagrams?
I hope this describes my dilemma well enough and doesn't frighten you all away... I thank you all for your feedback in advance.

It is possible to assign Structural Elements to any Model Type in BPA. If you are not able to make this assignment it is not active in your Method Filter. You can log in with the Entire Method filter to check this out. You can also modify the filter you are using to include this ability.
The hierarchy you are using is fine and is a commonly used one. Some people use the EPC model, which is specifc to BPA and not a standard, at the level below the value-chain but many use BPMN as you have. If your intent is to use the first BPMN as a pure business process model then you may consider creating a separate custom Model Type, based on the BPMN model, with a scaled down set of allowable objects. This is also done through customizing the filter. If you do this you can also rename the model types in the filter if you wish to have different names at each level.
Note of caution, modifying a method filter can have impacts and should generally be done by someone with a working knowledge of the meta model. If you chosse to change a filter supplied with the tool, copy it and rename it, then update the copy. Always retain the original filter provided with the tool. If you are doing something as simple as adding the ability to use the assignment between Structural Elements and Value-Added Chain models, that would be no big deal. If you get into reusing object and model types that has more impact on the functionality of the tool.

Business process in activity base costing

Hi All,
We have implemented ABC to compute cost for sales order.
We defined business process & templates to compute the cost.
There is one scenario where I need expert advice.
For one of the cost element order to cash have 2 rates one is for a order & another is for a line item in that order.For bith rate we defined separate business process & accordingly mainatined rate in CP26.
In template selected function CalculationRowResult to calculate cost by considering an order as a one number. but we have one case where we want to calculate cost for each line item of sales order. EG if one order has 3 line items & rate is $1 then cost is
3*1=3.
Could anyone please tell me which function to use to calculate number of line items from an order? or there is any other standard method to calculate cost?
Thanks
Anagha

Hi,
Greetings,
I think, you have to understand the requirement and adaptabilty of ABC as well Activity price.
Each sale order will have atleast one Order item and Header.
Generally,header covers for all items and item specifically cover Sale order Item.
As I know in sale Order costing means Sale Order item costing.when other cost objects are linked with sale Order Item,
Settlement happens to SO item.
I request you, for my understanding,pl.confirm your intention to apply cost at header level and item level !
Please provide more inputs on contemplated scenario for better understanding of your problem.
Thanks - GS Rao

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