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.

Invoice is a document that states the invoice recipient's obligations to the vendor or service provider.

An invoice is normally created after the goods receipt or service performance has been confirmed. It includes general invoice information, such as total amount, total tax, freight costs, vendor and invoice recipient, and detailed information (header information, item information, approval preview).

The invoice can be processed in SRM or in ERP.

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.

You can use this business process in order to update subscription sales quantities delivered to households and create the corresponding circulation audit reports.

When a subscription order is created, it is assigned automatically to an audit report category, which classifies issues that have been distributed and those that have not. This classification is used to update the data in the audit report.

You can create audit reports in SAP for Media according to the following regulations:

• IVW (Germany)
• ABC (USA)
• WEMF (Switzerland)