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Download Full Guide: OTC Flow Document Sales Order T-Code: VA01 Setting Value Company Code 4700 Sales Document Type ZOR Sales Area 4700/10/10 Header level: Sold-to-party: 1000991 Ship-to-party: 1000991 PO Number: ‘Test’ Payment term: 0001 Item level: Material code: 1000309 Order Quantity: 1 Plant: 4702 Press Enter Item billing: INCOTerms: CFR (Cost and Freight) Save Delivery T-Code: VL01N Setting Value Delivery Document Type ZLF Shipping Point 4702 Enter the Sales Document number from the previous step. Make sure the Delivery Date is set — it should pull through from the Schedule Lines in the Sales Order. ...

I spent a fair amount of time working on SAP implementations back in the day, and one of the modules that came up again and again was Order to Cash. People throw the term around in meetings like it means something obvious, but if you ask five people what OTC actually covers, you will get five different answers. So here is my take on it — not a textbook definition, but what it looks like from the inside. ...

I spent a fair amount of time on SAP implementations, and testing was always one of those areas that people talked about in the project plan but never really thought through until something broke. So here is a review of some testing practices I encountered — what worked, what did not, and what I wish someone had told me earlier. Methodology Matters (Even If You Think It Does Not) Every SAP project has a methodology. Sometimes it is a proper one — Deloitte’s Thread Manager, IBM’s Ascendant, SAP’s own Roadmap through Solution Manager. Sometimes it is “we did something similar last time, let’s do that again.” Sometimes it is nothing at all, and the project is winging it. ...

I spent some time at Arsin Corporation, a company based in Hyderabad, India that specialises in enterprise software testing. Here’s a summary of what they do, mostly for my own reference. What they do Arsin provides automated testing services for large companies, with a particular focus on SAP. They’ve been around since 1995 and their clients are mostly Fortune 500 companies in pharmaceuticals, finance, healthcare, and technology. The idea is that when you’re running enterprise software, you can’t afford for it to break. Arsin builds the testing infrastructure that catches problems before they reach production. ...

Notes on the SAP SD (Sales and Distribution) module from an implementation project. Mostly for my own reference. What SD does SD covers the sales process from order to cash. It handles customer master data, pricing, orders, deliveries, shipping, and billing. It’s integrated with other SAP modules — MM for materials, FI for finance, PP for production — so changes in SD ripple through the rest of the system. Organisational structure ...

This was my final year project for the B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering (2008–09), done with K. Nishant. Test Automation in ERP Applications: Optimisation and Enhancement Most large organisations run their business on packaged ERP systems like SAP, Oracle, or PeopleSoft. These get heavily customised to fit each company’s processes, and testing those customisations is expensive and time-consuming. The goal of this project was to build a test automation framework that could run hundreds of test scenarios from a single script. ...