Get MM on SAP S/4HANA! Set up the master data your system needs to run its material management processes. Learn how to define material types, MRP procedures, business partners, and more. Configure your essential processes, from purchasing and MRP runs to inventory management and goods issue and receipt. Discover how to get more out of SAP S/4HANA by using batch management, special procurement types, the Early Warning System, and other built-in tools.
Highlights include:
1) Materials master data
2) Vendor master data
3) Business partners
4) Purchasing information data
5) Batch management
6) Material requirements planning (MRP)
7) Inventory management
8) Goods issue/goods receipt (GI/GR)
9) Material Ledger
10) Invoice verification
11) Document management
12) Reporting
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978-1-4932-1995-7 (9781493219957)
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Jawad Akhtar is an SAP logistics and supply chain management expert with a focus on business sales and delivery. He earned his chemical engineering degree from Missouri University of Science and Technology in the United States. He has 20 years of professional experience, 14 of which have been spent working with SAP systems. He has experience working on several large-scale, end-to-end SAP project implementation lifecycles, including rollouts. He works with SAP clients to help them identify root causes of business issues and address those with the appropriate SAP products and change management strategies. He now focuses on next-generation SAP products such as SAP S/4HANA, SAP IBP, SAP Ariba, and SAP Hybris.
Akhtar is also a technical advisor to SAPexperts, an ASUG speaker, and a contributor to SearchSAP, where his "Ask the Expert" column shares real-life lessons and best practices gleaned from SAP implementations, ways to avoid common project pitfalls, and features of various SAP products that solve key business issues.
A native of London, England, Martin Murray joined the computer industry upon his graduation from Middlesex University in 1986. In 1991, he began working with SAP R/2 in the Materials Management area for a London-based multi-national beverage company. In 1994, he moved to the United States to work as an SAP R/3 consultant. Since then, he's been implementing the Materials Management (MM) and Warehouse Management (WM) functionality in projects throughout the world. He works for IBM Global Business Services.
Martin is the author of six best-selling books from SAP PRESS: Materials Management with SAP ERP, Warehouse Management with SAP ERP, Discover Logistics with SAP ERP, Maximize Your Warehouse Operations with SAP ERP, Understanding the SAP Logistics Information System, and SAP Transaction Codes: Your Quick Reference to T-Codes in SAP ERP.
... Acknowledgments ... 31
... Preface ... 33
... Who Is This Book For? ... 33
... How This Book Is Organized ... 33
... Conclusion ... 38
Part I ... Materials Management Foundations ... 39
1 ... Materials Management Overview ... 41
1.1 ... What Is Materials Management? ... 41
1.2 ... Materials Management Integration ... 45
1.3 ... Summary ... 47
2 ... Organizational Structure ... 49
2.1 ... Mapping Business Functions of a Company in the SAP System ... 49
2.2 ... Client Structure in the SAP System ... 53
2.3 ... Company Codes ... 56
2.4 ... Plants ... 59
2.5 ... Storage Locations ... 64
2.6 ... Purchasing Organizations ... 66
2.7 ... Purchasing Groups ... 72
2.8 ... SAP Calendar ... 72
2.9 ... Summary ... 75
3 ... Configuring the Material Master ... 77
3.1 ... Material Master ... 77
3.2 ... Configuring a New Material Type ... 79
3.3 ... Defining a Number Range for a Material Type ... 85
3.4 ... Defining Field Selections ... 88
3.5 ... Configuring an Industry Sector ... 90
3.6 ... Defining Material Groups ... 90
3.7 ... Configuring a New Unit of Measure ... 91
3.8 ... Validating the Correctness of Configurable Objects ... 93
3.9 ... Summary ... 99
4 ... Material Master Data ... 101
4.1 ... Industry Sector ... 103
4.2 ... Material Type ... 103
4.3 ... Basic Data ... 108
4.4 ... Classification Data ... 122
4.5 ... Purchasing Data ... 124
4.6 ... Sales Organizational Data ... 133
4.7 ... Sales General Data ... 138
4.8 ... Material Requirements Planning Data ... 142
4.9 ... Advanced Planning Data ... 159
4.10 ... Extended Service Parts Planning ... 165
4.11 ... Forecasting Data ... 169
4.12 ... Work Scheduling Data ... 174
4.13 ... Production Resources/Tools Data ... 179
4.14 ... Plant Data/Storage Location ... 182
4.15 ... Warehouse Management Data ... 187
4.16 ... Quality Management Data ... 193
4.17 ... Accounting Data ... 197
4.18 ... Costing Data ... 202
4.19 ... Summary ... 206
5 ... Business Partners ... 207
5.1 ... Configuring Vendor Account Groups ... 209
5.2 ... Configuring a Business Partner ... 214
5.3 ... Customer-Vendor Integration ... 220
5.4 ... Additional Business Partner Configurations ... 223
5.5 ... Maintaining a Business Partner ... 227
5.6 ... Summary ... 257
Part II ... Procurement ... 259
6 ... Purchasing Overview ... 261
6.1 ... Purchase Requisitions ... 261
6.2 ... Requests for Quotation ... 262
6.3 ... Quotations ... 263
6.4 ... Outline Agreements ... 264
6.5 ... Purchase Orders ... 265
6.6 ... Source Lists and Source Determination ... 266
6.7 ... Conditions in Purchasing ... 271
6.8 ... Purchasing Information Records ... 273
6.9 ... Serial Numbers ... 275
6.10 ... Quota Arrangements ... 278
6.11 ... Summary ... 280
7 ... Purchasing Information Record ... 281
7.1 ... Purchasing General Data ... 282
7.2 ... Purchasing Organization Data ... 287
7.3 ... Summary ... 293
8 ... Purchase Requisitions ... 295
8.1 ... Configuring a New Purchase Requisition Document Type ... 295
8.2 ... Processing a Purchase Requisition ... 306
8.3 ... Indirectly Created Requisitions ... 309
8.4 ... Release Procedures ... 311
8.5 ... Flexible Workflow ... 330
8.6 ... Summary ... 338
9 ... Requests for Quotation ... 339
9.1 ... Creating a Request for Quotation ... 339
9.2 ... Changing a Request for Quotation ... 347
9.3 ... Releasing a Request for Quotation ... 348
9.4 ... Issuing a Request for Quotation to a Vendor ... 350
9.5 ... Maintaining Quotations ... 351
9.6 ... Comparing Quotations ... 353
9.7 ... Rejecting Quotations ... 356
9.8 ... Summary ... 358
10 ... Purchase Orders ... 359
10.1 ... Creating and Maintaining a Purchase Order ... 360
10.2 ... Blocking and Canceling a Purchase Order ... 366
10.3 ... Creating a Purchase Order with Reference to Purchasing Documents ... 368
10.4 ... Account Assignment in a Purchase Order ... 371
10.5 ... Progress Tracking ... 375
10.6 ... Outline Purchase Agreements ... 380
10.7 ... Supplier Confirmations ... 388
10.8 ... Messages and Outputs ... 395
10.9 ... Pricing Procedures ... 403
10.10 ... Supplier Evaluations ... 417
10.11 ... Serial Numbers in Purchasing ... 426
10.12 ... Summary ... 434
11 ... External Services Management ... 435
11.1 ... Service Master Record ... 436
11.2 ... Standard Service Catalog ... 440
11.3 ... Conditions in External Services Management ... 440
11.4 ... Procurement of Services ... 441
11.5 ... Entry of Services ... 443
11.6 ... Blanket Purchase Orders ... 446
11.7 ... Configuration Basics of External Services Management ... 449
11.8 ... Summary ... 450
12 ... Special Procurement Types ... 453
12.1 ... Overview ... 454
12.2 ... Direct Procurement ... 457
12.3 ... Stock Transfers (Interplant Transfers) ... 461
12.4 ... Withdrawals from an Alternative Plant ... 463
12.5 ... Subcontracting ... 464
12.6 ... Consignment ... 470
12.7 ... Pipeline Material ... 473
12.8 ... Simplified Sourcing ... 474
12.9 ... Summary ... 476
Part III ... Planning ... 477
13 ... Planning Overview ... 479
13.1 ... Material Requirements Planning ... 481
13.2 ... Consumption-Based Planning ... 484
13.3 ... Summary ... 484
14 ... Material Requirements Planning ... 485
14.1 ... Material Requirements Planning Elements ... 486
14.2 ... Material Requirements Planning Procedures ... 505
14.3 ... Planning Areas ... 523
14.4 ... Classic MRP ... 527
14.5 ... Configuration Settings ... 530
14.6 ... Planning Calendar ... 533
14.7 ... Summary ... 535
15 ... Forecasting ... 537
15.1 ... Forecast Models ... 538
15.2 ... Forecasting Master Data ... 540
15.3 ... Forecast Profile ... 544
15.4 ... Business Processes in Forecasting ... 545
15.5 ... Configuration Settings for Forecasting ... 550
15.6 ... Summary ... 552
Part IV ... Inventory ... 555
16 ... Inventory Management Overview ... 557
16.1 ... Goods Movements ... 557
16.2 ... Physical Inventory ... 565
16.3 ... Returns ... 565
16.4 ... Material Documents ... 568
16.5 ... Reservations ... 569
16.6 ... Stock Transfers ... 576
16.7 ... Configuration Basics in Inventory Management ... 582
16.8 ... Summary ... 585
17 ... Goods Issue ... 587
17.1 ... Goods Issue to a Production Order ... 587
17.2 ... Goods Issue to Scrap ... 595
17.3 ... Goods Issue for Sampling ... 597
17.4 ... Goods Issue Posting Documents ... 598
17.5 ... Goods Issue Reversals ... 600
17.6 ... Summary ... 600
18 ... Goods Receipt ... 601
18.1 ... Goods Receipt for a Purchase Order ... 601
18.2 ... Goods Receipt for a Production Order ... 609
18.3 ... Initial Entry of Inventory ... 610
18.4 ... Good Receipt of Co-Products or By-Products ... 613
18.5 ... Other Goods Receipt ... 625
18.6 ... Summary ... 627
19 ... Physical Inventory ... 629
19.1 ... Physical Inventory Methods ... 630
19.2 ... Physical Inventory Preparation ... 631
19.3 ... Counting and Recounts ... 636
19.4 ... Physical Inventory Posting ... 639
19.5 ... Cycle Counting Method of Physical Inventory ... 643
19.6 ... Summary ... 647
20 ... Invoice Verification ... 649
20.1 ... Standard Three-Way Match ... 650
20.2 ... Duplicate Invoice Check ... 655
20.3 ... Evaluated Receipt Settlement ... 656
20.4 ... Credit Memos and Reversals ... 661
20.5 ... Taxes in Invoice Verification ... 662
20.6 ... Goods Receipt/Invoice Receipt Account Maintenance ... 663
20.7 ... Invoice Reduction ... 664
20.8 ... Tolerance Limits ... 666
20.9 ... Blocking Invoices ... 670
20.10 ... Releasing Blocked Invoices ... 673
20.11 ... Down Payments ... 674
20.12 ... Retention Money ... 677
20.13 ... Summary ... 680
21 ... Inventory Valuation and Account Assignment ... 683
21.1 ... Split Valuation ... 684
21.2 ... Account Determination ... 695
21.3 ... Last In, First Out Valuation ... 709
21.4 ... First In, First Out Valuation ... 716
21.5 ... Lowest Value Determination ... 718
21.6 ... Material Price Changes ... 722
21.7 ... Summary ... 725
22 ... Material Ledger ... 727
22.1 ... Material Ledger Overview ... 727
22.2 ... Business Processes ... 732
22.3 ... Configuration Basics ... 738
22.4 ... Activating the Material Ledger ... 748
22.5 ... Reporting in the Material Ledger ... 750
22.6 ... Summary ... 755
23 ... Classification System ... 757
23.1 ... Classification Overview ... 758
23.2 ... Characteristics ... 760
23.3 ... Classes ... 764
23.4 ... Object Dependencies ... 767
23.5 ... Finding Objects Using Classification ... 768
23.6 ... Summary ... 771
Part V ... Advanced Materials Management ... 773
24 ... Document Management System ... 775
24.1 ... Configuration Steps ... 775
24.2 ... Document Info Record ... 783
24.3 ... Additional Functionality ... 789
24.4 ... Summary ... 793
25 ... Batch Management ... 795
25.1 ... Batch Management Overview ... 795
25.2 ... Batch Level and Batch Status Management ... 797
25.3 ... Master Data in Batch Management ... 802
25.4 ... Business Processes of Batch Management ... 805
25.5 ... Batch Determination ... 813
25.6 ... Recurring Inspection and Expiration Dates ... 825
25.7 ... Batch Derivation ... 831
25.8 ... Batch Traceability of Work in Progress Batches ... 842
25.9 ... Reporting ... 852
25.10 ... Summary ... 856
26 ... Early Warning System ... 857
26.1 ... Overview ... 858
26.2 ... Setting Up the Early Warning System ... 859
26.3 ... Scheduling an Early Warning System ... 868
26.4 ... Early Warning System in Action ... 869
26.5 ... Exception Analysis ... 871
26.6 ... Summary ... 872
27 ... Reporting and Analytics ... 873
27.1 ... The Basics of Reporting ... 873
27.2 ... Purchasing Reports ... 874
27.3 ... SAP Fiori Apps for Procurement ... 883
27.4 ... SAP Fiori Apps for Planning ... 897
27.5 ... SAP Fiori Apps for Inventory Management ... 900
27.6 ... Summary ... 909
A ... Movement Types ... 911
B ... The Authors ... 913
... Index ... 915
