Media - Premium Content Publishers > Product & Content Sales > One-Time Sales

One-Time Sales

Business Scenario

 


Key Performance Indicators

  • Delivery Performance to Scheduled Commit Date
  • Number of Orders not delivered complete
  • Return Rate
  • Credit memo value rate
  • Customer Invoicing, Accounting Costs
  • Distribution Costs
  • Order Fulfillment Costs
  • Order Management Costs
  • Perfect Order Fulfillment
  • Partner Opportunities

  • Partner Opportunities in Media - Premium Content Publishers
  • Content Download & Online Access Technical Systems for Publishers
  • See also

  • Daekyo
  • De Agostini Editore
  • Deutscher Sparkassen Verlag
  • Editorial Aranzadi
  • Gyldendal Norsk Forlag
  • Haufe Media Group
  • Higher Education Press
  • INCM
  • Lonely Planet
  • Macmillan India Ltd.
  • Malmberg
  • RAO Publishing Group
  • RCS

  • Comprises all aspects of the one-time-sale of products like books, CD/DVD and also download products.

    Business Goals & Objectives


    Improving Corporate Strategy

    Ability to Innovate and Change

    Improving Customer Service

    Improve process efficiency
    Reduce error rate
    Reduce late orders

    Improving Regulatory Compliance

    Comply with future regulatory reporting requirements
    Improve auditability of information and actions
    Improved transparency and auditability of activities

    Improving Strategic Management of Organization

    Quickly adpat to changing business environment

    Increase Speed & Efficiency

    Automate - eliminate errors due to manual processes
    Improve data accuracy and availability

    Reducing Operating Costs & Increasing Efficiency

    Minimize manual processes
    Reduce order processing costs

     



    Business Processes

    Sales Order ProcessingSAP Component or Feature Available

    This business process makes it possible for you to deliver a specific product configuration and quantity, or to provide a service at a specific time. During sales order processing, a sales organization accepts the sales order and is responsible for fulfilling the contract.

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

  • SAP Product Sales and Distribution for Media
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    Outbound ProcessingSAP Component or Feature Available
    Outbound with WM: Outbound processing comprises the preparation of goods to be delivered from a warehouse to a receiving location. Outbound processing within the scope of warehouse management typically comprises activities like the notification of goods to be supplied from a warehouse to a customer for which the outbound delivery serves as the reference document, picking, packing, physical goods issue in warehouse, loading, goods issue and goods issue posting to IM, advising advanced shipping notifications to business partners and, obtaining a proof-of-delivery from the receiving business partner. Outbound without WM: Outbound processing without WM comprises the preparation of goods to be delivered from a warehouse to a receiving location. The warehouse is managed on a storage location level using Lean WM. Outbound processing within the scope of lean warehouse management typically comprises activities like the notification of goods to be supplied from a warehouse to a customer for which the outbound delivery serves as the reference document, picking and physical goods issue in warehouse, loading, goods issue and goods issue posting to IM, advising advanced shipping notifications to business partners and, obtaining a proof-of-delivery from the receiving business partner.

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

  • SAP Product Sales and Distribution for Media
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    BillingSAP Component or Feature Available

    You use this business process in order to create customer invoices in SAP CRM. Here, one or more than one billing due list item is copied into a billing document. You can either create the billing document with reference to the delivery, or to the sales order. It is also possible to create billing documents with reference to contracts. You make the necessary setting in Customizing. The following describes delivery-related billing.

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

  • SAP Product Sales and Distribution for Media
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    Complaints ProcessingSAP Component or Feature Available

    Tracks established procedures for passing complaint information into the enterprise for resolution so that dissatisfied customers become satisfied customers and companies can plan and manage return material costs.

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

  • SAP Product Sales and Distribution for Media
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    Credit Memo ProcessingSAP Component or Feature Available

    You can create a credit memo request if customers are charged too much, or a defective product is returned, or a complaint is made about a service performed.

    After a detailed check, you can either release or reject the credit memo request. If the credit memo is released, the customer receives a credit memo for the full amount to be credited.

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

  • SAP Product Sales and Distribution for Media
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