Integrating Third-Party Logistics with SAP S/4HANA

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Publisher SAP PRESS

Year / Edition 2024 / 1

Pages 455

Authors Gautam Bhattacharya, Mehfuze Ali Molla

Integrating Third-Party Logistics with SAP S/4HANA

Working with external partners for logistics operations? Set up seamless communication between your systems using this all-in-one handbook! Start with an overview of third-party logistics and learn how to design the best landscape for your business model. Then follow click-by-click instructions for connecting SAP S/4HANA with your 3PL vendors. Configure settings for goods movement, inventory management, shipping, delivery, and batch management. Learn how to set up relevant master data, map warehousing in your system, exchange data through middleware, and more!

Connect your SAP S/4HANA system to your 3PL vendors
Configure key settings around packaging and traceability, shipping and delivery, and inventory and reconciliation
Send data via EDI and IDocs, direct connectivity and middleware, and application programming interfaces

You'll learn about:

System Design:
Begin by designing the optimal 3PL implementation for your business needs and KPIs. Learn how to assess your 3PL requirements for order fulfillment, storage and warehousing, distribution and transportation, and value-added services.
Settings and Controls:
Get familiar with the master data and organizational elements that power logistics-relevant transactions in SAP S/4HANA. Walk through the system settings you need to configure for packaging, traceability, shipping, delivery, inventory management, and reconciliations.
Managing Data:
Send and receive data seamlessly between all of your vendors. Use electronic data interchange (EDI) to exchange key documents with your business partners. Customize your business rules with APIs designed to integrate with SAP S/4HANA applications.

Key Highlights:

Master data
Packaging and traceability
Shipping and delivery
Inventory management
Warehousing
Transportation
Application link enabling (ALE)
IDocs
Business Rules Framework plus (BRFplus)
Data monitoring
Direct connectivity and middleware

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Preface
- Objective of This Book
- Target Audience
- Structure of the Book
- Acknowledgments
1 Introduction to Third-Party Logistics
- 1.1 Supply Chain Integration
  - 1.1.1 What Is Third-Party Logistics Integration?
  - 1.1.2 Key Benefits and Features
  - 1.1.3 First-Party Logistics to Fifth-Party Logistics
- 1.2 Business Case for Third-Party Logistics Integration
  - 1.2.1 Value Drivers
  - 1.2.2 Pros and Cons of Third-Party Logistics
- 1.3 Integrated Business Processes
  - 1.3.1 Order-to-Cash
  - 1.3.2 Procure-to-Pay
  - 1.3.3 Inventory Management
- 1.4 Summary
2 Design and Implementation Criteria
- 2.1 Determine Business Needs
  - 2.1.1 Order Fulfillment
  - 2.1.2 Storage and Warehousing
  - 2.1.3 Distribution and Transportation
  - 2.1.4 Value-Added Services
- 2.2 Assess Current State and Future Challenges
  - 2.2.1 Create a Cross-Functional Team for Regular Interactions
  - 2.2.2 Finalize Scope of Services and Future Road Map
  - 2.2.3 Assessment of the Current IT Landscape
  - 2.2.4 Evaluation of Third-Party Logistics Capabilities
  - 2.2.5 Integration Approach
  - 2.2.6 Design System Landscape for Integration
- 2.3 Summary
3 Organizational Entities and Master Data
- 3.1 Organizational Entities
  - 3.1.1 Purchasing Organization and Groups
  - 3.1.2 Sales Organization and Sales Area
  - 3.1.3 Plants, Storage Locations, and Shipping Points
- 3.2 Business Partners
  - 3.2.1 Characteristics and Classification of Business Partners
  - 3.2.2 Business Partner Identification
  - 3.2.3 Customer-Vendor Integration
- 3.3 Master Data
  - 3.3.1 Material Master
  - 3.3.2 Procurement-Specific Master Data
  - 3.3.3 Sales-Specific Master Data
  - 3.3.4 Other Supply Chain-Relevant Master Data
- 3.4 Summary
4 Packaging and Traceability
- 4.1 Batch Management
  - 4.1.1 Benefits and Integration Points
  - 4.1.2 Define Batch Level and Batch Status Management
  - 4.1.3 Specify Batch Management Default by Plant
  - 4.1.4 Batch Number and Assignments
  - 4.1.5 Creation of New Batches
  - 4.1.6 Batch Valuation
  - 4.1.7 Batch Determination and Batch Check
  - 4.1.8 Batch Where-Used List
  - 4.1.9 Shelf-Life Expiration Date
  - 4.1.10 Batch Management in a Third-Party Logistics Scenario
- 4.2 Handling Unit Management
  - 4.2.1 Overview
  - 4.2.2 Define Number Ranges for Handling Units
  - 4.2.3 Settings for Packaging Materials
  - 4.2.4 Handling Units with Extended Warehouse Management
- 4.3 Summary
5 Shipping and Delivery
- 5.1 Shipping and Logistics Processes
- 5.2 Logistics Execution
  - 5.2.1 Mapping Logistics Execution Processes
  - 5.2.2 SAP ERP versus SAP S/4HANA
  - 5.2.3 Logistics Execution Organization Structure
  - 5.2.4 Shipping-Specific Configurations
  - 5.2.5 Route Determination in Sales Order and Delivery
  - 5.2.6 Inbound and Outbound Deliveries
  - 5.2.7 Picking
  - 5.2.8 Incompletion Control for Deliveries
- 5.3 Availability Check and Transfer of Requirements
  - 5.3.1 Basic Criteria for Availability Check
  - 5.3.2 Configuration Steps for Availability Check
- 5.4 Output Control in Shipping
  - 5.4.1 Disabling Business Rule Framework Plus-Based Output Management
  - 5.4.2 Customizing Output Determination in Shipping
  - 5.4.3 Message Control
  - 5.4.4 Automatic Inbound Delivery Creation during Two-Step Stock Transfers
- 5.5 Summary
6 Inventory Management and Reconciliations
- 6.1 Goods Movement
  - 6.1.1 Field Selection for Goods Movement
  - 6.1.2 Settings for Goods Movement (Transaction MIGO)
  - 6.1.3 Goods Issue and Transfer Postings
  - 6.1.4 Goods Receipt
  - 6.1.5 Automatic Movements
- 6.2 Movement Types
- 6.3 Output Determination
  - 6.3.1 Output Control in SAP S/4HANA
  - 6.3.2 Maintain Condition Tables
  - 6.3.3 Maintain Access Sequences
  - 6.3.4 Maintain Output Types
  - 6.3.5 Maintain Output Determination Procedure
- 6.4 Inventory Reconciliation
- 6.5 Summary
7 Warehousing
- 7.1 Deployment Scenarios for Third-Party Logistics
  - 7.1.1 Warehouse Management Systems
  - 7.1.2 Extended Warehouse Management with SAP S/4HANA
- 7.2 System Landscapes
  - 7.2.1 Embedded Extended Warehouse Management in SAP S/4HANA
  - 7.2.2 Decentralized Extended Warehouse Management in SAP S/4HANA
- 7.3 Integration between SAP S/4HANA and SAP Extended Warehouse Management
  - 7.3.1 System Landscape Integration between SAP S/4HANA and SAP Extended Warehouse Management
  - 7.3.2 Organizational Structure Integration
  - 7.3.3 Business Process Integration
- 7.4 Master Data in Extended Warehouse Management
- 7.5 Summary
8 Transportation
- 8.1 Third-Party Logistics Providers and Transportation
- 8.2 Deployment Scenarios for Third-Party Logistics
  - 8.2.1 Business Partners and Their Roles
  - 8.2.2 Integration Options
- 8.3 Master Data and Organizational Structure
  - 8.3.1 Organizational Units in Embedded SAP Transportation Management
  - 8.3.2 Master Data in SAP Transportation Management
- 8.4 Basic Configuration Setups
  - 8.4.1 Logistics Integration in SAP Transportation Management
  - 8.4.2 Financial Processes in SAP Transportation Management
- 8.5 Summary
9 Application Link Enabling and IDocs
- 9.1 IDoc Interface and Application Link Enabling
  - 9.1.1 Logical Systems and Assignments
  - 9.1.2 Target Systems for Remote Function Calls
  - 9.1.3 Remote Function Call Destinations for Method Calls
  - 9.1.4 Distribution Model and Distributing Views
- 9.2 IDoc Basics for Functional Consultants
  - 9.2.1 Overview
  - 9.2.2 IDoc Types and Segments
  - 9.2.3 IDoc Extension
  - 9.2.4 IDoc Structure
  - 9.2.5 Message Type
  - 9.2.6 Partner Profiles
  - 9.2.7 Ports
  - 9.2.8 Inbound and Outbound Processing
- 9.3 Technical Integration Features
  - 9.3.1 Integration Strategy
  - 9.3.2 Electronic Data Interchange
- 9.4 Summary
10 Direct Connectivity and Middleware
- 10.1 Direct Connectivity Options
  - 10.1.1 Synchronous versus Asynchronous Communication
  - 10.1.2 Connectors
  - 10.1.3 Remote Function Call/Web Service
  - 10.1.4 Cloud Integration
- 10.2 Integration through SAP Middleware
  - 10.2.1 Overview of SAP Process Integration and SAP Process Orchestration
  - 10.2.2 Integration Approach and Methodology
  - 10.2.3 IDoc Interface/Application Link Enabling
  - 10.2.4 Batch Processing Jobs
- 10.3 Connection to a Business-to-Business/Electronic Data Interchange Solution via Application Programming Interfaces
  - 10.3.1 Logistics Service Provider-EDI Integration
  - 10.3.2 Application Programming Interface Management Using SAP Business Technology Platform
- 10.4 Summary
11 Business Rule Framework Plus
- 11.1 Overview
- 11.2 Business Rule Framework Plus User Interface
- 11.3 Business Rule Framework Plus Applications
- 11.4 Business Rule Framework Plus Data Objects
  - 11.4.1 Element
  - 11.4.2 Structure
  - 11.4.3 Table
- 11.5 Expressions
  - 11.5.1 Boolean Expression
  - 11.5.2 Constant Expression
  - 11.5.3 Formula Expression
  - 11.5.4 Decision Table
  - 11.5.5 Function Call Expression
  - 11.5.6 Procedure Call Expression
- 11.6 Actions
- 11.7 Function
  - 11.7.1 Mode of Operation
  - 11.7.2 Signature
  - 11.7.3 BRFplus Tools
  - 11.7.4 Assigned Ruleset
  - 11.7.5 Rules
- 11.8 Business Rule Framework Plus in Output Management
  - 11.8.1 SAP S/4HANA Output Control
  - 11.8.2 Limitations of SAP S/4HANA Output Management
- 11.9 Managing Custom Rules with Business Rule Framework Plus
- 11.10 Summary
12 Monitoring and Control
- 12.1 IDoc Monitoring and Dashboard
- 12.2 SAP Application Interface Framework
  - 12.2.1 SAP Application Interface Framework: Monitoring Categories
  - 12.2.2 Monitoring and Error Handling
  - 12.2.3 Customizing SAP Application Interface Framework
  - 12.2.4 SAP Application Interface Framework License in SAP S/4HANA
- 12.3 Inventory Reports
  - 12.3.1 Inventory Analysis Overview (SAP Fiori App ID F3366)
  - 12.3.2 Inventory KPI Analysis (SAP Fiori App ID F3749)
  - 12.3.3 Analyze Stock in Date Range (SAP Fiori App ID F6185)
  - 12.3.4 Dead Stock Analysis (SAP Fiori App ID F2899)
  - 12.3.5 Inventory Turnover Analysis (SAP Fiori App ID F1956)
  - 12.3.6 Goods Movement Analysis (SAP Fiori App ID W0055)
  - 12.3.7 Slow or Non-Moving Materials (SAP Fiori App ID F2137)
  - 12.3.8 Custom Inventory Reports
- 12.4 Summary
The Authors
Index

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