Manage Rental Contracts with Help from Sales and Distribution Functionality

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Manage Rental Contracts with Help from Sales and Distribution Functionality

Published: 07/December/2009

Reading time: 13 mins

Learn the necessary sales and distribution (SD) configuration to create and manage rental contracts in your SAP ERP solution. Key Concept A periodic billing plan type is meant to be used with contracts and customer agreements that require predefined periodic invoicing. For example, an agreement might call for the customer to be billed on the...

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