Chapter 10

Business Scenarios

Introduction

In SAP, business scenarios are a series of transactions for a particular business cycle. For example, a business scenario in SAP MM could be a procurement cycle in which a customer chooses a vendor for a material, makes and sends a purchase order (PO) for the material to the vendor, receives material against the PO, and finally makes payment to the vendor. Similarly, a business scenario could be as follows: A customer procures material from a vendor on behalf of his/her own customer, and thus the material needs to be shipped to the customer of the customer but not to the customer.

Business scenarios depict real-world examples as to how to use SAP system to perform everyday business tasks. So a business ...

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