Advertisement business in SAP

[Former Member]

Hi,

We are about to activate SD for business process with advertisement industry. We do not use IS Media since FI went live already. The business is to cove:

1. Advertisement in telephone book

2. Call center

Since I am very new into this kind of industry, I would like to seek best approach to handle case of advertisement. The process scenario is :

1. Customer pays for the service in advance, let say 01.09.2011

2. Print or publish the advertisement later for next year month : 02.2012.

Client has legacy system to record this sales, I have thought to do upload thing by creating sales order and billing or billing without reference.

Yet I have confusion:

1. how can I know that advertisement has been printed out in 02.2012 ? what function can I use in SD ?

2. Can I post journal for the sales made as "Payment in Advance" ?

thank you

Chika

[Former Member]

Hi,

1. how can I know that advertisement has been printed out in 02.2012 ? what function can I use in SD ?

Create sales order and put delivery date as 02.2012 for reference

2. Can I post journal for the sales made as "Payment in Advance" ?

No need

Manage with order related billing

Kapil

[Former Member]

Hi Kalpit,

Thanks for responding. So I can use the requested deivery date to capture planned printing of advertisement.

For the "revenue in advance", why is it no needed ? In their business, they need to recognise revenue prior to printing of advertisement in later date .

thanks

Chika