Materials Management with SAP S/4HANA
Business Processes and Configuration
3rd Edition
Published on 31. July 2024
Book
Hardback
1018 pages
978-1-4932-2538-5 (ISBN)
Description
Manage your materials with SAP S/4HANA! Whether your focus is on materials planning, procurement, or inventory, this guide will teach you to configure and manage MM in SAP S/4HANA. Start by creating your organizational structure and defining business partners and material master data. Then follow step-by-step instructions for your essential processes, from purchasing and MRP runs to goods issue and receipt. Discover how to get more out of SAP S/4HANA by using batch management, demand-driven MRP, SAP Fiori reports, and other built-in tools.
Highlights include:
1) Material master data
2) Business partners
3) Purchasing
4) Batch management
5) Material requirements planning (MRP)
6) Demand-driven MRP
7) Inventory management
8) Goods issue and receipt (GI/GR)
9) Material Ledger
10) Invoice verification
11) Document management
12) Reporting
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Business Processes and Configuration
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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.
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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.
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Content
... 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 ... 52
2.3 ... Company Codes ... 56
2.4 ... Plants ... 58
2.5 ... Storage Locations ... 62
2.6 ... Purchasing Organizations ... 65
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 ... 84
3.4 ... Defining Field Selections ... 87
3.5 ... Configuring an Industry Sector ... 89
3.6 ... Defining Material Groups ... 89
3.7 ... Configuring a New Unit of Measure ... 90
3.8 ... Validating the Correctness of Configurable Objects ... 92
3.9 ... Summary ... 97
4 ... Material Master Data ... 99
4.1 ... Industry Sector ... 100
4.2 ... Material Type ... 101
4.3 ... Basic Data ... 106
4.4 ... Classification Data ... 119
4.5 ... Purchasing Data ... 120
4.6 ... Sales Organizational Data ... 129
4.7 ... Sales General Data ... 134
4.8 ... Material Requirements Planning Data ... 138
4.9 ... Advanced Planning Data ... 153
4.10 ... Extended Service Parts Planning ... 159
4.11 ... Forecasting Data ... 162
4.12 ... Work Scheduling Data ... 166
4.13 ... Production Resources/Tools Data ... 170
4.14 ... Plant Data/Storage Location ... 173
4.15 ... Extended Warehouse Management Data ... 178
4.16 ... Quality Management Data ... 183
4.17 ... Accounting Data ... 187
4.18 ... Costing Data ... 192
4.19 ... Key Differences between the Material Master in SAP ERP and SAP S/4HANA ... 197
4.20 ... Summary ... 199
5 ... Business Partners ... 201
5.1 ... Business Partner Overview ... 202
5.2 ... Vendor Account Groups ... 204
5.3 ... Configuring a Business Partner ... 209
5.4 ... Customer-Vendor Integration ... 215
5.5 ... Additional Business Partner Configurations ... 218
5.6 ... Maintaining a Business Partner ... 221
5.7 ... Summary ... 252
Part II ... Procurement ... 253
6 ... Purchasing Overview ... 255
6.1 ... Procure to Pay ... 257
6.2 ... Purchase Requisitions ... 258
6.3 ... Quotations ... 258
6.4 ... Outline Agreements ... 260
6.5 ... Purchase Orders ... 261
6.6 ... Order Acknowledgment ... 261
6.7 ... Goods Receipt ... 262
6.8 ... Invoice Verification ... 262
6.9 ... Source Lists and Source Determination ... 262
6.10 ... Conditions in Purchasing ... 267
6.11 ... Purchasing Information Records ... 269
6.12 ... Serial Numbers ... 270
6.13 ... Quota Arrangements ... 273
6.14 ... Summary ... 277
7 ... Purchasing Information Record ... 279
7.1 ... Purchasing General Data ... 279
7.2 ... Purchasing Organization Data ... 285
7.3 ... Summary ... 290
8 ... Purchase Requisitions ... 291
8.1 ... Configuring a New Purchase Requisition Document Type ... 291
8.2 ... Processing a Purchase Requisition ... 301
8.3 ... Indirectly Created Requisitions ... 303
8.4 ... Release Procedures ... 307
8.5 ... Flexible Workflow ... 325
8.6 ... Summary ... 332
9 ... Requests for Quotation ... 333
9.1 ... Creating a Request for Quotation ... 333
9.2 ... Changing a Request for Quotation ... 341
9.3 ... Releasing a Request for Quotation ... 342
9.4 ... Issuing a Request for Quotation to a Supplier ... 343
9.5 ... Maintaining Quotations ... 345
9.6 ... Comparing Quotations ... 346
9.7 ... Rejecting Quotations ... 349
9.8 ... Summary ... 350
10 ... Purchase Orders ... 353
10.1 ... Creating and Maintaining a Purchase Order ... 354
10.2 ... Blocking and Canceling a Purchase Order ... 361
10.3 ... Creating a Purchase Order with Reference to Purchasing Documents ... 363
10.4 ... Account Assignment in a Purchase Order ... 365
10.5 ... Progress Tracking ... 369
10.6 ... Outline Purchase Agreements ... 373
10.7 ... Supplier Confirmations ... 380
10.8 ... Messages and Outputs ... 387
10.9 ... Pricing Procedures ... 395
10.10 ... Supplier Evaluations ... 409
10.11 ... Serial Numbers in Purchasing ... 429
10.12 ... Summary ... 436
11 ... External Services Management ... 437
11.1 ... Service Master Record ... 438
11.2 ... Standard Service Catalog ... 441
11.3 ... Conditions in External Services Management ... 441
11.4 ... Procurement of Services ... 442
11.5 ... Entry of Services ... 444
11.6 ... Blanket Purchase Orders ... 448
11.7 ... Configuration Basics of External Services Management ... 451
11.8 ... Summary ... 452
12 ... Special Procurement Types ... 453
12.1 ... Overview ... 454
12.2 ... Direct Procurement ... 456
12.3 ... Stock Transfers ... 460
12.4 ... Withdrawals from an Alternative Plant ... 463
12.5 ... Subcontracting ... 464
12.6 ... Consignment ... 474
12.7 ... Pipeline Material ... 479
12.8 ... Third-Party Procurement ... 480
12.9 ... Intercompany Purchases ... 481
12.10 ... Simplified Sourcing ... 484
12.11 ... Summary ... 486
Part III ... Planning ... 487
13 ... Planning Overview ... 489
13.1 ... Material Requirements Planning ... 491
13.2 ... Consumption-Based Planning ... 494
13.3 ... Summary ... 494
14 ... Material Requirements Planning ... 495
14.1 ... Material Requirements Planning Elements ... 496
14.2 ... Material Requirements Planning Procedures ... 512
14.3 ... Planning Areas ... 528
14.4 ... Classic MRP ... 533
14.5 ... Configuration Settings ... 535
14.6 ... Planning Calendar ... 537
14.7 ... Summary ... 539
15 ... Forecasting ... 541
15.1 ... Forecast Models ... 542
15.2 ... Forecasting Master Data ... 544
15.3 ... Forecast Profile ... 548
15.4 ... Business Processes in Forecasting ... 548
15.5 ... Configuration Settings for Forecasting ... 553
15.6 ... Summary ... 556
Part IV ... Inventory ... 557
16 ... Inventory Management Overview ... 559
16.1 ... Stock Types ... 560
16.2 ... Goods Movements ... 563
16.3 ... Physical Inventory ... 571
16.4 ... Returns ... 572
16.5 ... Material Documents ... 574
16.6 ... Reservations ... 575
16.7 ... Stock Transfer and Transfer Posting ... 581
16.8 ... Configuration Basics in Inventory Management ... 588
16.9 ... Summary ... 592
17 ... Goods Issue ... 593
17.1 ... Goods Issue to a Production Order ... 593
17.2 ... Goods Issue to Scrap ... 601
17.3 ... Goods Issue for Sampling ... 602
17.4 ... Goods Issue Posting Documents ... 603
17.5 ... Goods Issue Reversals ... 605
17.6 ... Summary ... 606
18 ... Goods Receipt ... 607
18.1 ... Goods Receipt for a Purchase Order ... 607
18.2 ... Goods Receipt for a Production Order ... 614
18.3 ... Initial Entry of Inventory ... 615
18.4 ... Good Receipt of Co-Products or By-Products ... 618
18.5 ... Other Goods Receipt ... 629
18.6 ... Cancellation of Material Document ... 634
18.7 ... Summary ... 634
19 ... Physical Inventory ... 635
19.1 ... Physical Inventory Methods ... 636
19.2 ... Physical Inventory Preparation ... 637
19.3 ... Counting and Recounts ... 641
19.4 ... Physical Inventory Posting ... 644
19.5 ... Cycle Counting Method of Physical Inventory ... 647
19.6 ... Summary ... 650
20 ... Invoice Verification ... 651
20.1 ... Standard Three-Way Match ... 652
20.2 ... Duplicate Invoice Check ... 658
20.3 ... Invoice Verification in Background Processing ... 659
20.4 ... Evaluated Receipt Settlement ... 659
20.5 ... Credit Memos and Reversals ... 665
20.6 ... Subsequent Debit/Credit ... 665
20.7 ... Taxes in Invoice Verification ... 667
20.8 ... Discounts in Invoice Verification ... 667
20.9 ... Goods Receipt/Invoice Receipt Account Maintenance ... 668
20.10 ... Invoice Reduction ... 670
20.11 ... Invoicing Plans ... 672
20.12 ... Blocking Invoices ... 678
20.13 ... Releasing Blocked Invoices ... 681
20.14 ... Down Payments ... 682
20.15 ... Retention Money ... 685
20.16 ... Summary ... 688
21 ... Inventory Valuation and Account Assignment ... 689
21.1 ... Valuation Methods: Moving Average Price and Standard Price ... 690
21.2 ... Split Valuation ... 692
21.3 ... Account Determination ... 702
21.4 ... Last In, First Out Valuation ... 716
21.5 ... First In, First Out Valuation ... 723
21.6 ... Lowest Value Determination ... 725
21.7 ... Material Price Changes ... 728
21.8 ... Summary ... 731
22 ... Material Ledger ... 733
22.1 ... Material Ledger Overview ... 733
22.2 ... Business Processes ... 737
22.3 ... Configuration Basics ... 743
22.4 ... Activating the Material Ledger ... 752
22.5 ... Reporting in the Material Ledger ... 754
22.6 ... Summary ... 758
23 ... Classification ... 759
23.1 ... Classification Overview ... 760
23.2 ... Characteristics ... 761
23.3 ... Create a Class and Assign Characteristics ... 767
23.4 ... Assigning a Class to a Material Master ... 770
23.5 ... Finding Objects Using Classification ... 772
23.6 ... Summary ... 773
Part V ... Advanced Materials Management ... 775
24 ... Document Management System ... 777
24.1 ... Configuration Steps ... 778
24.2 ... Document Info Record Management ... 796
24.3 ... Changing a Document Info Record ... 809
24.4 ... Display a Document Info Record ... 810
24.5 ... Searching Document Info Records ... 811
24.6 ... Manage Documents App ... 822
24.7 ... Summary ... 826
25 ... Batch Management ... 827
25.1 ... Batch Management Overview ... 827
25.2 ... Batch Level and Batch Status Management ... 829
25.3 ... Master Data in Batch Management ... 833
25.4 ... Business Processes of Batch Management ... 837
25.5 ... Batch Determination ... 843
25.6 ... Recurring Inspection and Expiration Dates ... 856
25.7 ... Batch Derivation ... 862
25.8 ... Batch Traceability of Work in Process Batches ... 873
25.9 ... Batch Information Cockpit ... 882
25.10 ... Electronic Batch Record ... 885
25.11 ... Summary ... 887
26 ... Early Warning System ... 889
26.1 ... Overview ... 889
26.2 ... Setting Up the Early Warning System ... 891
26.3 ... Scheduling an Early Warning System ... 899
26.4 ... Early Warning System in Action ... 900
26.5 ... Exception Analysis ... 901
26.6 ... Summary ... 902
27 ... Demand-Driven Replenishment ... 903
27.1 ... Demand-Driven MRP Overview ... 904
27.2 ... Demand-Driven MRP Components ... 906
27.3 ... Demand-Driven MRP Setup ... 911
27.4 ... Running Demand-Driven Replenishment ... 921
27.5 ... Summary ... 951
28 ... Reporting and Analytics ... 953
28.1 ... The Basics of Reporting ... 953
28.2 ... Purchasing Reports ... 954
28.3 ... SAP Fiori Apps for Procurement ... 961
28.4 ... SAP Fiori Apps for Planning ... 975
28.5 ... SAP Fiori Apps for Inventory Management ... 979
28.6 ... Summary ... 988
A ... Movement Types ... 991
B ... The Authors ... 993
... Index ... 995
... 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 ... 52
2.3 ... Company Codes ... 56
2.4 ... Plants ... 58
2.5 ... Storage Locations ... 62
2.6 ... Purchasing Organizations ... 65
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 ... 84
3.4 ... Defining Field Selections ... 87
3.5 ... Configuring an Industry Sector ... 89
3.6 ... Defining Material Groups ... 89
3.7 ... Configuring a New Unit of Measure ... 90
3.8 ... Validating the Correctness of Configurable Objects ... 92
3.9 ... Summary ... 97
4 ... Material Master Data ... 99
4.1 ... Industry Sector ... 100
4.2 ... Material Type ... 101
4.3 ... Basic Data ... 106
4.4 ... Classification Data ... 119
4.5 ... Purchasing Data ... 120
4.6 ... Sales Organizational Data ... 129
4.7 ... Sales General Data ... 134
4.8 ... Material Requirements Planning Data ... 138
4.9 ... Advanced Planning Data ... 153
4.10 ... Extended Service Parts Planning ... 159
4.11 ... Forecasting Data ... 162
4.12 ... Work Scheduling Data ... 166
4.13 ... Production Resources/Tools Data ... 170
4.14 ... Plant Data/Storage Location ... 173
4.15 ... Extended Warehouse Management Data ... 178
4.16 ... Quality Management Data ... 183
4.17 ... Accounting Data ... 187
4.18 ... Costing Data ... 192
4.19 ... Key Differences between the Material Master in SAP ERP and SAP S/4HANA ... 197
4.20 ... Summary ... 199
5 ... Business Partners ... 201
5.1 ... Business Partner Overview ... 202
5.2 ... Vendor Account Groups ... 204
5.3 ... Configuring a Business Partner ... 209
5.4 ... Customer-Vendor Integration ... 215
5.5 ... Additional Business Partner Configurations ... 218
5.6 ... Maintaining a Business Partner ... 221
5.7 ... Summary ... 252
Part II ... Procurement ... 253
6 ... Purchasing Overview ... 255
6.1 ... Procure to Pay ... 257
6.2 ... Purchase Requisitions ... 258
6.3 ... Quotations ... 258
6.4 ... Outline Agreements ... 260
6.5 ... Purchase Orders ... 261
6.6 ... Order Acknowledgment ... 261
6.7 ... Goods Receipt ... 262
6.8 ... Invoice Verification ... 262
6.9 ... Source Lists and Source Determination ... 262
6.10 ... Conditions in Purchasing ... 267
6.11 ... Purchasing Information Records ... 269
6.12 ... Serial Numbers ... 270
6.13 ... Quota Arrangements ... 273
6.14 ... Summary ... 277
7 ... Purchasing Information Record ... 279
7.1 ... Purchasing General Data ... 279
7.2 ... Purchasing Organization Data ... 285
7.3 ... Summary ... 290
8 ... Purchase Requisitions ... 291
8.1 ... Configuring a New Purchase Requisition Document Type ... 291
8.2 ... Processing a Purchase Requisition ... 301
8.3 ... Indirectly Created Requisitions ... 303
8.4 ... Release Procedures ... 307
8.5 ... Flexible Workflow ... 325
8.6 ... Summary ... 332
9 ... Requests for Quotation ... 333
9.1 ... Creating a Request for Quotation ... 333
9.2 ... Changing a Request for Quotation ... 341
9.3 ... Releasing a Request for Quotation ... 342
9.4 ... Issuing a Request for Quotation to a Supplier ... 343
9.5 ... Maintaining Quotations ... 345
9.6 ... Comparing Quotations ... 346
9.7 ... Rejecting Quotations ... 349
9.8 ... Summary ... 350
10 ... Purchase Orders ... 353
10.1 ... Creating and Maintaining a Purchase Order ... 354
10.2 ... Blocking and Canceling a Purchase Order ... 361
10.3 ... Creating a Purchase Order with Reference to Purchasing Documents ... 363
10.4 ... Account Assignment in a Purchase Order ... 365
10.5 ... Progress Tracking ... 369
10.6 ... Outline Purchase Agreements ... 373
10.7 ... Supplier Confirmations ... 380
10.8 ... Messages and Outputs ... 387
10.9 ... Pricing Procedures ... 395
10.10 ... Supplier Evaluations ... 409
10.11 ... Serial Numbers in Purchasing ... 429
10.12 ... Summary ... 436
11 ... External Services Management ... 437
11.1 ... Service Master Record ... 438
11.2 ... Standard Service Catalog ... 441
11.3 ... Conditions in External Services Management ... 441
11.4 ... Procurement of Services ... 442
11.5 ... Entry of Services ... 444
11.6 ... Blanket Purchase Orders ... 448
11.7 ... Configuration Basics of External Services Management ... 451
11.8 ... Summary ... 452
12 ... Special Procurement Types ... 453
12.1 ... Overview ... 454
12.2 ... Direct Procurement ... 456
12.3 ... Stock Transfers ... 460
12.4 ... Withdrawals from an Alternative Plant ... 463
12.5 ... Subcontracting ... 464
12.6 ... Consignment ... 474
12.7 ... Pipeline Material ... 479
12.8 ... Third-Party Procurement ... 480
12.9 ... Intercompany Purchases ... 481
12.10 ... Simplified Sourcing ... 484
12.11 ... Summary ... 486
Part III ... Planning ... 487
13 ... Planning Overview ... 489
13.1 ... Material Requirements Planning ... 491
13.2 ... Consumption-Based Planning ... 494
13.3 ... Summary ... 494
14 ... Material Requirements Planning ... 495
14.1 ... Material Requirements Planning Elements ... 496
14.2 ... Material Requirements Planning Procedures ... 512
14.3 ... Planning Areas ... 528
14.4 ... Classic MRP ... 533
14.5 ... Configuration Settings ... 535
14.6 ... Planning Calendar ... 537
14.7 ... Summary ... 539
15 ... Forecasting ... 541
15.1 ... Forecast Models ... 542
15.2 ... Forecasting Master Data ... 544
15.3 ... Forecast Profile ... 548
15.4 ... Business Processes in Forecasting ... 548
15.5 ... Configuration Settings for Forecasting ... 553
15.6 ... Summary ... 556
Part IV ... Inventory ... 557
16 ... Inventory Management Overview ... 559
16.1 ... Stock Types ... 560
16.2 ... Goods Movements ... 563
16.3 ... Physical Inventory ... 571
16.4 ... Returns ... 572
16.5 ... Material Documents ... 574
16.6 ... Reservations ... 575
16.7 ... Stock Transfer and Transfer Posting ... 581
16.8 ... Configuration Basics in Inventory Management ... 588
16.9 ... Summary ... 592
17 ... Goods Issue ... 593
17.1 ... Goods Issue to a Production Order ... 593
17.2 ... Goods Issue to Scrap ... 601
17.3 ... Goods Issue for Sampling ... 602
17.4 ... Goods Issue Posting Documents ... 603
17.5 ... Goods Issue Reversals ... 605
17.6 ... Summary ... 606
18 ... Goods Receipt ... 607
18.1 ... Goods Receipt for a Purchase Order ... 607
18.2 ... Goods Receipt for a Production Order ... 614
18.3 ... Initial Entry of Inventory ... 615
18.4 ... Good Receipt of Co-Products or By-Products ... 618
18.5 ... Other Goods Receipt ... 629
18.6 ... Cancellation of Material Document ... 634
18.7 ... Summary ... 634
19 ... Physical Inventory ... 635
19.1 ... Physical Inventory Methods ... 636
19.2 ... Physical Inventory Preparation ... 637
19.3 ... Counting and Recounts ... 641
19.4 ... Physical Inventory Posting ... 644
19.5 ... Cycle Counting Method of Physical Inventory ... 647
19.6 ... Summary ... 650
20 ... Invoice Verification ... 651
20.1 ... Standard Three-Way Match ... 652
20.2 ... Duplicate Invoice Check ... 658
20.3 ... Invoice Verification in Background Processing ... 659
20.4 ... Evaluated Receipt Settlement ... 659
20.5 ... Credit Memos and Reversals ... 665
20.6 ... Subsequent Debit/Credit ... 665
20.7 ... Taxes in Invoice Verification ... 667
20.8 ... Discounts in Invoice Verification ... 667
20.9 ... Goods Receipt/Invoice Receipt Account Maintenance ... 668
20.10 ... Invoice Reduction ... 670
20.11 ... Invoicing Plans ... 672
20.12 ... Blocking Invoices ... 678
20.13 ... Releasing Blocked Invoices ... 681
20.14 ... Down Payments ... 682
20.15 ... Retention Money ... 685
20.16 ... Summary ... 688
21 ... Inventory Valuation and Account Assignment ... 689
21.1 ... Valuation Methods: Moving Average Price and Standard Price ... 690
21.2 ... Split Valuation ... 692
21.3 ... Account Determination ... 702
21.4 ... Last In, First Out Valuation ... 716
21.5 ... First In, First Out Valuation ... 723
21.6 ... Lowest Value Determination ... 725
21.7 ... Material Price Changes ... 728
21.8 ... Summary ... 731
22 ... Material Ledger ... 733
22.1 ... Material Ledger Overview ... 733
22.2 ... Business Processes ... 737
22.3 ... Configuration Basics ... 743
22.4 ... Activating the Material Ledger ... 752
22.5 ... Reporting in the Material Ledger ... 754
22.6 ... Summary ... 758
23 ... Classification ... 759
23.1 ... Classification Overview ... 760
23.2 ... Characteristics ... 761
23.3 ... Create a Class and Assign Characteristics ... 767
23.4 ... Assigning a Class to a Material Master ... 770
23.5 ... Finding Objects Using Classification ... 772
23.6 ... Summary ... 773
Part V ... Advanced Materials Management ... 775
24 ... Document Management System ... 777
24.1 ... Configuration Steps ... 778
24.2 ... Document Info Record Management ... 796
24.3 ... Changing a Document Info Record ... 809
24.4 ... Display a Document Info Record ... 810
24.5 ... Searching Document Info Records ... 811
24.6 ... Manage Documents App ... 822
24.7 ... Summary ... 826
25 ... Batch Management ... 827
25.1 ... Batch Management Overview ... 827
25.2 ... Batch Level and Batch Status Management ... 829
25.3 ... Master Data in Batch Management ... 833
25.4 ... Business Processes of Batch Management ... 837
25.5 ... Batch Determination ... 843
25.6 ... Recurring Inspection and Expiration Dates ... 856
25.7 ... Batch Derivation ... 862
25.8 ... Batch Traceability of Work in Process Batches ... 873
25.9 ... Batch Information Cockpit ... 882
25.10 ... Electronic Batch Record ... 885
25.11 ... Summary ... 887
26 ... Early Warning System ... 889
26.1 ... Overview ... 889
26.2 ... Setting Up the Early Warning System ... 891
26.3 ... Scheduling an Early Warning System ... 899
26.4 ... Early Warning System in Action ... 900
26.5 ... Exception Analysis ... 901
26.6 ... Summary ... 902
27 ... Demand-Driven Replenishment ... 903
27.1 ... Demand-Driven MRP Overview ... 904
27.2 ... Demand-Driven MRP Components ... 906
27.3 ... Demand-Driven MRP Setup ... 911
27.4 ... Running Demand-Driven Replenishment ... 921
27.5 ... Summary ... 951
28 ... Reporting and Analytics ... 953
28.1 ... The Basics of Reporting ... 953
28.2 ... Purchasing Reports ... 954
28.3 ... SAP Fiori Apps for Procurement ... 961
28.4 ... SAP Fiori Apps for Planning ... 975
28.5 ... SAP Fiori Apps for Inventory Management ... 979
28.6 ... Summary ... 988
A ... Movement Types ... 991
B ... The Authors ... 993
... Index ... 995