Media - Newspaper & Magazines Publishers > Sales of Products, Content & Services > Inserts, Market Coverage, Address Lists, Ext. Delivery > Ad Inserts

Ad Inserts

Business Scenario

 

Key Performance Indicators

  • Customer Satisfaction Index
  • Administration Costs Reductions
  • Revenue
  • Distribution Costs

    • Partner Opportunities

  • Partner Opportunities in Media - Newspaper & Magazines Publishers

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  • Scenario and Process Component List
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    Publishers often extend their service portfolio by offering shipping services for products belonging to third parties.

     

    Using the distribution scenario for ad inserts, publishers deliver the ad inserts they have been provided within their distribution area. The sales order processing with the customer takes part in the SAP advertising management and through the integration with the distribution functionality, the issue mixes are created and the logistical functions are executed here.

    Business Goals & Objectives


    Improving Corporate Strategy

    Ability to Innovate and Change

    Improving Customer Service

    Collaborate with business partners
    Improve process efficiency

    Improving Regulatory Compliance

    Improve auditability of information and actions
    Improved transparency and auditability of activities

    Improving Service Delivery

    Improve service quality

    Improving Strategic Management of Organization

    Quickly adpat to changing business environment

    Increasing Revenue

    Develop service offerings

    Managing Fixed Assets & Resources

    Improve capacity utilization

     

    Business Processes
    Generating Issue MixesSAP Component or Feature Available
    You can use this business process to determine the issue mixes for each issue and plant and assigns them to the existing deliveries.

    The issue mix reproduces different combinations of inserts (ad inserts) available with an issue.

    Once the issue mixes have been determined, no further changes can be made to the orders in question. However, this block can be removed by deleting the issue mixes by executing the function Generate issue mixes as a deletion run.

    This process is supported by the following SAP and/or partner offerings

  • SAP Product Sales and Distribution for Media

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    Creating Shipping DataSAP Component or Feature Available

    This business process includes all the necessary activities for recording data for delta coverage or distribution of ad inserts (e.g. ad pre-prints, CDs or product samples) according to the ad insert orders in Advertising Management (IS-M/AM).

    This process is supported by the following SAP and/or partner offerings

  • SAP Product Sales and Distribution for Media

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    Preparing ShippingSAP Component or Feature Available
    You need this business process to be able to start the actual shipping process:

    Setting the order deadline is the prerequisite for executing the further shipping functions for a specific shipping date. Once you have set the order deadline, you should execute the netchange function for a shipping date. This function enables you to ensure that order changes saved shortly before the order deadline was set or while it was being set are included in the shipping procedure for the shipping date.

    This process is supported by the following SAP and/or partner offerings

  • SAP Product Sales and Distribution for Media

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    Performing BundlingSAP Component or Feature Available
    You can use this business process to assign the delivery quantities of titles and ad inserts recorded in the deliveries during circulation planning to the packaging units, bundles and postal packs. In addition, bundling determines the path used to transport the packaging units to the ship-to party or the point of departure for delivery.

    This process is supported by the following SAP and/or partner offerings

  • SAP Product Sales and Distribution for Media

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    Generating Shipping DocumentsSAP Component or Feature Available
    You can use this business process you can create the necessary shipping documents, such as delivery notes, truck route documents, bundle labels or address labels on the basis of the drop-offs recorded in the system as a result of bundling and container packing.

    Since shipping documents are created based on basis elements of the SAP R/3 System, you can change or enhance the standard shipping document types according to your company's requirements.

    This process is supported by the following SAP and/or partner offerings

  • SAP Product Sales and Distribution for Media

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    Performing Carrier SettlementSAP Component or Feature Available
    You can use this business process to determine remuneration, flat rates and surcharges for home delivery services performed by service companies or by individual employees. Home delivery settlement includes both home delivery of Media Sales and Distribution products (newspapers, magazines) and of Advertising Management products (ad inserts such as ad pre-prints, CDs or product samples). Home delivery settlement is based on the data on the deliveries in the system.

    This process is supported by the following SAP and/or partner offerings

  • SAP Product Sales and Distribution for Media

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    Entering Shipping Problem MessagesSAP Component or Feature Available
    You can use this business process to record logistics problems that occur during delivery to customers – during transport from the plant to the customer – and that are reported by a person responsible for delivery, for example the driver or the carrier.

    This process is closely linked to output determination and to complaint processing in Media Sales and Distribution. Data entered in the system as a result of problem messages forms the basis for further functions and activities in problem processing.

    The information stored in the system can be used to trigger processing of the problem before the customers are affected.

    This process is supported by the following SAP and/or partner offerings

  • SAP Product Sales and Distribution for Media

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    Analyzing Subscription Delivery and Distribution ServicesSAP Component or Feature Available

    You can use this business process to analyze the deliveries of subscriptions and distribution services. For the evaluation of deliveries the following key figures are available:



    • delivery type
    • geography
    • delivery quantities

    This process is supported by the following SAP and/or partner offerings

  • SAP Product Sales and Distribution for Media

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