Credit Management in OLTP

Account receivables can have a big impact to the cash flow of an organization. Bad credit can hurt your company’s bottom line. Manging customer credits help the company to manage the risk and avoid the issues.

In this post, I will touch credit check and credit limit, centralized and decentralized credit management, and credit limit currency.  This is a a result of studying various credit management features in the OLTP system. The objective is to understand how the these various system works and understand how the credit management process looks like, and how BI can help in these processses.

Cost Center Hierarchy and Performance Management

Cost Center Hierarchy is an important dimension is the Performance Management system. The cost center concept is described in many Managerial Accounting books. I think that going back to where it was originated help us to understand how it should be designed and used in a Business Analytics Data Warehouse.

A cost center is described as an essential element used in the responsibility accounting reporting system. Here are the major concepts about the responsibility accounting and cost center described in the managerial accounting field.

Sales Performance Report in SAP

I studied a sales performance reports found in SAP Sales Information System.

This report analyzes the monthly sales performance of a number of sales reporting structure.