Product Sales and Distribution for Entertainment 

Purpose

You use this business scenario to manage the sale of media products in your media company. The scenario covers the entire process chain from business partner administration through order processing, billing and shipping, and analysis in the SAP Business Information Warehouse.

Integration with the Business Scenario License Acquisition and Outgoing Royalties Settlement for Entertainment

Revenues derived from product sales are also taken into account in the settlement of license fees and royalties payments to rights holders. The system provides an interface for transferring the revenue directly to the License Acquisition and Outgoing Royalties for Entertainment business scenario.

Integration with the Business Scenario Title Lifecycle Planning, Forecasting, and Analysis

Expenses and revenue have implications for the profitability of a title. To calculate this profitability, you can have the system valuate the financial effects of all the processes in product sales on each title. The settings and enhancements you need to make to use this function (in particular, in Financial Accounting FI-SPL and Profitability Accounting CO-PA) are described in the Solution Manager.

 

Prerequisites

Business Partner	SAP Application Component	Configuration
Licensor Customer	SAP R/3 4.7 with Plug-In 1.2003; SAP Media 4.71 BI Content 3.3 Add-On	Use the SAP Solution Manager.

 

Process Flow

The business processes run as follows:

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       1.      Sales Planning and Forecasting

       2.      Standard Sales Order Processing in ERP

       3.      Billing in ERP

       4.      Outbound Processing Without WM

       5.      Returns Processing in ERP

       6.      By Title Product Sales Analysis